How would acheive this

[SirRender]

AfterEffects would work. The easiest way would be to have two copies of each screen. One for the circle and one for the fly out to the front. You'll just need to animated the position and opacity of each. The hardest part will be to line them up.

Also, for the screens rotating around the circle. You can draw a circle path with the circle mask tool on any layer, then select the mask "shape" attribute, copy, and paste it into the position attribute of any layer and it will "move" in the circle shape. Do the same for all the screens or just parent them to one master layer.

Hope that helps.

[sjcrompo]

Thanks Sir

I will look into the techniques you describe. Its all new to me but hey you have to start somewhere:thumbsup:

Steve

[djmatix]

Hi

First of all I don't know enough yet to know which would be the best to do this in, either premiere or AE.

I want to have 5 screen shots set back on the screen as if they were in the distance. I want these 5 screen shots to be rotating around a circle and then 1 fly upto the front for a few seconds and then return to the rotating circle.

Any ideas to help this newbie would be cool.

Ps I should also add that I would like the screenshots to stay horizontal when rotating around the center point.

Thanks

Steve

I've done an effect similar to what your trying to do, but none of the images came forward, they just spun around a center point.

Start by creating a null object. Make it a 3D object by selecting the checkbox on the timeline. Adjust it's Z parameter so that it moves away from you. Import your 5 images. Place one on the timeline. Immediately parent it to the null object. 360 divided by 5 yields a value of 72. Rotate the null object on the Y axis 72 degrees. You should see the first image rotate away from the camera. Place your next image on the timeline and again immediately parent it to the null object. Again, roatate the null object 72 degrees. Repeat until you have all 5 images on the time line, parented to the null object. You now have all 5 parented to the null object which gives you full control over all of them at once and they are all uniformly spaced from each other.

Be sure to set a keyframe for each image at their resting place, so when you stop the rotating and move one forward, you'll just have to copy and paste that original key frame furthur down the timeline to get it to return where it was. Then you can continue to rotate the null before you bring the next one forward.

Hope this helps! :)

[sjcrompo]

Thank you for the explaination. I am working throught the exellent book by Trish and Chrish Meyer at the moment and already some things are making sence. I realy want to conquer this programme and I am currently looking at the first rung of the ladder:)but one day I will get to that first rung and then start climbing. I will give this a try and add it to my knowledge of ae.

Again thank you

Steve

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