After Effects "shatter" help

cantoloupe · Post by **cantoloupe** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:58 am

oy,

i was using this effect for a window composit i put together,
it looks fine, but is there any way the make the shatter effect shatter backwards, in the opposite direction?

thanks

MasterMike · Post by **MasterMike** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:54 pm

Yep - once you've finished tweaking your effect, go to Layer > Time Stretch and set the stretch factor to -100&. This will run the layer backwards.

cantoloupe · Post by **cantoloupe** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:13 pm

not quite what i was asking for, but thats helpful too, thanks,

basically im asking if you can change the shatter from shattering at you, to away from you...

ipon70 · Post by **ipon70** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:17 pm

Couldn't you add the shatter effect to another video layer on top of your original, dnd then use the -100 speed to reverse it??

cantoloupe · Post by **cantoloupe** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:49 pm

ok, heres what i have:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQTnm2qrbeI

the glass shatters the wrong way...

ipon70 · Post by **ipon70** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:36 am

I see what you are looking at, you want it to blow out towards the yard, or outside. Man I don't know that is going to be a hard one to do with the angle of the camera IMO. I will look at something here on mine and see if there is a work around i can find. The next problem is the fact that it will need to fall behind the glass that is there currently, and its such a small opening in the glass that there isnt' much to give a DOF effect with. Let me look, I will post if I find anything. Right off the bat the only thing I think you could do would be to increase the gravity effect on it, to pull it down quicker, that might help some.

cantoloupe · Post by **cantoloupe** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:37 am

oy thanks for the help

aaronv2 · Post by **aaronv2** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:30 am

I cant believe the advice some of you people give out its amazing how you complicate things. this is a plugin which means its customizable right? if you want the glass to go the other way just change the "camera position" in the filters properties.

a Y rotation of 180 degrees will spin it the other way and make the glass go that way too. just pay more attention to what your doing. with those camera position properties you could position the pane of glass to fit exactly where it is in 3d space. its really isnt that difficult, its just a plugin play around with them all for an hour each a day and you will learn alot about using them with after effects and how you can keyframe them and etc.

did you know you can draw a curve with the pen tool then use that curve as position data for a lens flare or whatever sort of + position marker in a plugin that you like.

cantoloupe · Post by **cantoloupe** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:50 pm

ah, ok, thanks aaronv2, i shall do that

ipon70 · Post by **ipon70** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:55 pm

I assume you are refering to what I said to him, if so I think what I said still stands.
If you looked at his shot and he wants it to look right then that will be a problem because of the layer.

Sorry that seems to be a big deal to you.

Firestorm · Post by **Firestorm** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:14 am

You'll probably want to mask the layer, if it's going the other way it means it'll be going outside.