Increment Rotation At Markers

lloydalvarez · **Posted:** Mon May 12, 2008 10:27 am

This expression will increase (and animate) the rotation by the user defined number or degrees at every marker on the layer. If you set the duration to anything more than 0 the rotation will animate into the marker. In other words it will start the rotation f frames before the marker and it will finish the rotation at the marker.

Code:

f=5; //duration in frames of rotation, set to zero if you want it to click
d=20; //degrees to rotate


f=framesToTime(f, fps = 1.0 / thisComp.frameDuration);
n = 0;
if (marker.numKeys > 0){
  n = marker.nearestKey(time).index;
  if (time > marker.key(n).time && n < marker.numKeys){
   n++;
  }
r=(d*(n-1)) + value;
linear (time,marker.key(n).time-f,marker.key(n).time,r,r+d);
}

-Lloyd

lloydalvarez · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 8:34 am

This expression will oscillate rotation back and forth at markers:

Code:

f=5; //duration in frames of rotation, set to zero if you want it to click
d=20; //degrees to rotate

r=value;
f=framesToTime(f, fps = 1.0 / thisComp.frameDuration);
n = 0;
if (marker.numKeys > 0){
  n = marker.nearestKey(time).index;
if (n%2) {d=d*-1; r=r-d;} 
linear (time,marker.key(n).time-f,marker.key(n).time,r,r+d);
}

Disciple · **Posted:** Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:27 am

Hey Lloyd

This might come in handy for me on a current project. How would you combine this with a wiggle? ie if I wanted the wiggle to increase based on your script?

Thanks
Alex

lloydalvarez · **Posted:** Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:01 pm

you want the amount of wiggle to increase at each marker?

Disciple · **Posted:** Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:15 pm

Yes, sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm basically trying to find ways to control the evolution of a wiggle parametrically, ie without keyframes from a slider. Markers are one good way I hadn't thought of...

Thanks!
Alex

lloydalvarez · **Posted:** Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:36 pm

Code:

freq=24; //wiggle frequency in frames per second
s=0; //wiggle start amount
d=20; //amount to increase wiggle at each marker
f=15;  //duration in frames of transition to next amount, set to zero if you want it to click

f=framesToTime(f, fps = 1.0 / thisComp.frameDuration);
n = value;
if (marker.numKeys > 0){
  n = marker.nearestKey(time).index;
  if (time > marker.key(n).time && n < marker.numKeys){
   n++;
  }
r=(d*(n-1))+s;
a=linear (time,marker.key(n).time-f,marker.key(n).time,r,r+d);
wiggle(freq,a);

}

Atomic · **Posted:** Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:43 am

Can this be used with audio somehow?

Ideally to rotate on the beat. I often have the raw tracks for music, such as only the kick or only the snare fairly well isolated.

lloydalvarez · **Posted:** Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:15 am

totally, that's what I wrote it for in the first place.. simply place markers on your layer at every beat..

if you want a more automated way to do that, you can reference this tutorial by Dan: http://www.motionscript.com/design-guid ... igger.html

and feed my expression the threshold time instead of the marker time. But in my experience i get better results when I mark the beats myself.. at least use Trapcode's soundkeys which can let you isolate frequencies better.

-lloyd

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