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Inspiring
August 29, 2017
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Animate Stroboscope Frequency

  • August 29, 2017
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Hi guys,

I want to create a stroboscope effect with increasing / decreasing flicker speed (=interval).

The problem is when I animate the interval from let´s say 0.5 to 0.2 the stroboscope doesn´t create a regular change of speed but instead flickers in a kind of random fashion - although the value changes regularly through .49, .48, .47, .46 etc.

But how do I get an even distribution of speed? I didn´t think it would be that complicated.

Reproducing it with an turbulent nouse & mosaic effects doesn´t really help because brightness changes too randomly and because I don´t have a duration value with this method.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

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Correct answer Mylenium

It seems you do not understand something fundamental here. The rhythm will always look "random" due to the strobe phase vs. the temporal sampling dicated by your framerate. The only way to get (seemingly) consistent results would be to use hold keyframes all the time and use strobe durations and phase that coincides with your frame pattern in even measures. There really is nothing wrong. It's simply temporal aliasing and undersampling. Even a real camera would behave this way.

Mylenium

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Dave_LaRonde
Inspiring
August 29, 2017

You will be limited in your accuracy because all compositions must have a frame rate.  The highest frame rate in AE is 99 fps.

Mylenium
MyleniumCorrect answer
Legend
August 29, 2017

It seems you do not understand something fundamental here. The rhythm will always look "random" due to the strobe phase vs. the temporal sampling dicated by your framerate. The only way to get (seemingly) consistent results would be to use hold keyframes all the time and use strobe durations and phase that coincides with your frame pattern in even measures. There really is nothing wrong. It's simply temporal aliasing and undersampling. Even a real camera would behave this way.

Mylenium