@@JakeInMotion Could you clarify why sometimes, an effect is added to a single layer multiple times? also is there any particular rule for deciding which effect should be on top of the other? Thanks so much
I couldn't get this to work for the life of me; mostly because I'm completely new to After Effects, but I figured out what you missed to point out to make this work. If you look at time code 0:22 in the checked boxes you have the "For Comp Layer: Collapse Transformations; for vector layer: Continuously rasterize" box checked. The icon looks like a star burst. You have to have that box checked to make this effect work at all. I played around for nearly 2 hours trying to figure out what I was missing and then dissected your exact settings from visual keys and noticed this. AGAIN, I'm a complete novice so missing this one key aspect really threw me for a loop. Thanks for showing me the amazingness of this tool :) Will be stopping by often!
I've been using AE for 4 years at this point and somehow couldn't figure out what the problem was until your comment!! Why it needed to be continuously rasterised makes no sense. Thank you tho!!
Nice to see these effects in action. I made an echo smear preset based on a shutter angle control and tween samples instead of the somewhat unintuitive controls of Echo for this purpose. Lmk if someone wants to see that
@@JakeInMotion I've added three Effect Controls: a "Shutter Angle" angle control, a "Samples" slider, and a "Native Shutter Angle" checkbox that overrides the shutter angle control with the comp's settings. Then I have 4 expressions: On the shutter angle: if(effect("Native Shutter Angle")("Checkbox")==1) { thisComp.shutterAngle }else{ value} On the Samples: clamp(Math.ceil(value),2,128) On Echo Time: fr = thisComp.frameDuration; SA = -(360/effect("Shutter Angle")("Angle")); smp = effect("Samples")("Slider")-1; fr/(SA*smp) On Number of Echoes: effect("Samples")("Slider")-1 I could send the FFX if you're on the MDA/Mograph.com slack, but this should pretty much do it :)
I've tried making the samples based on the velocity of the layer, but haven't been able to get consistently good results across the boards. Would give a really nice performance boost though, since Echo can get pretty heavy quickly.
these extra bits of information like use of expressions along with particular effects make tuts worthwhile. PS could you please make a tut on effect named image sample or sample image, there's also an expression by that name.
Whenever I write expressions like this in AE (although this one, and “.speed” were both completely new to me, so cheers for that) I’ve always declared a variable at the beginning, then changed the value inside the if/then statement and called the variable at the end. Aside from learning a bunch of stuff about the Echo effect, it made me realize I was making things hard on myself and writing 2 extra lines every time.
Jake thanks soooooo much for the work you are doing. I'm watching all of your videos. I've learn a lot. Your explanations are very good. Thanks again!!!
Woah..i never knew that double clicking a property in the effects panel would open it by itself in the timeline...thanks for that Jake. Wow lol. [slaps himself silly]
I have created 4 or more points mask then Subtract the layer. Now I want to echo only right ride or line of mask, all other remain nothing. I hope u get it. Sorry for weak english
Hey Jake, no wonder you look and sound familiar. What a crazy small world. You're Aaron's brother. I love how you're both AE experts now. Aaron and I worked together in the before times and you visited Participant one day.
Oh man .... those expressions.... It is a great tutorial but discouraged me from learning Nuke. I mean if After Effects is supposed to be easier to learn than Nuke, then imagine what the Nuke scripts would look like 😂😂😂
Does anyone know how to make the trace of the "echo" effect not disappear during the entire composition and remain static after the appearance? (I need to recreate an effect similar to the one in the Solitaire card game in windows, probably as many of you know it, there falling cards leave a trace after winning the game). I tried to increase the number of echoes, but this leads to the fact that they are always striving for the "emitter" and dissapear then. In addition, a large number of echoes reduces the performance of the program, without visually increasing echoes after a certain threshold. P.S. I came up with the idea of precomposing and using time remapping on compositions where there is an echo. The method is not quite suitable, because the echoes do not appear from the current position of the layer, but from its starting position, so the ladder of echoes is constantly moving, and they must appear once from under the emitter and remain in place. But the precompose at least helped solve the problem of their disappearance after some time.
I came here looking for someone asking this question. I'm also looking for this same effect! I want to pause an echo before it ends. Kind of like opening a slinky and closing it again. Does anyone know how?
I apreciate your work and you really are helping a lot. But I have to get it out: After Effects is the worst. I started learning 3d and are realizing how counter intuitiv and inefficient ae is. I dont get it!
I completely understand your frustrations. I think a big part of the problem is that AE has been around for so long, and there is nothing out there to compete with it. If another piece of software is able to really challenge what AE has to offer and do it in a better or more intuitive way, big changes will happen at Adobe.
@@JakeInMotion it's powerful, no doubt! It's not just frustrating, sometimes it's actually really satisfying. But what you say is true. I was just talking about it with some other animators. Said the same. Thanks again for your work and support.
I know it's not feasible to have this in depth of a video for every effect, but this was super informative and easy to follow!
Thank you! Every once and a while an effect just has some really fantastic use cases, and I'd hate to pass them up.
@@JakeInMotion Could you clarify why sometimes, an effect is added to a single layer multiple times? also is there any particular rule for deciding which effect should be on top of the other? Thanks so much
I couldn't get this to work for the life of me; mostly because I'm completely new to After Effects, but I figured out what you missed to point out to make this work. If you look at time code 0:22 in the checked boxes you have the "For Comp Layer: Collapse Transformations; for vector layer: Continuously rasterize" box checked. The icon looks like a star burst. You have to have that box checked to make this effect work at all. I played around for nearly 2 hours trying to figure out what I was missing and then dissected your exact settings from visual keys and noticed this. AGAIN, I'm a complete novice so missing this one key aspect really threw me for a loop. Thanks for showing me the amazingness of this tool :) Will be stopping by often!
THANK YOU
Thank you so much for this!!
I've been using AE for 4 years at this point and somehow couldn't figure out what the problem was until your comment!! Why it needed to be continuously rasterised makes no sense. Thank you tho!!
THANKYOU! I couldn't work out why it was compositing every echo in exactly the same place as the source layer no matter what I adjusted.
That expression hack at ~5:50 to display the speed is one of the coolest things I've seen in AE. Great tutorial!
Thanks!
Your AE effects series is truly treasure, very in-dept and easy to understand. Luv it!
Came here for a brush up on Echo and left with some new Expression knowledge... this tut = value*1000
Best after effects channel on the youtube!
Dude ! I finally understand how to control the echo effect. Been struggling with this for years. Thanks so much!
I am falling in love back again with after effect. All thanks to Jake! God bless you sir!
This is a really great tip and explained very well about the uses of these. It was the best tutorial I have watched on echo effect. 👍
Nice to see these effects in action. I made an echo smear preset based on a shutter angle control and tween samples instead of the somewhat unintuitive controls of Echo for this purpose. Lmk if someone wants to see that
Smart idea! I'd love to see it.
Hey I would love to see it as well
@@JakeInMotion I've added three Effect Controls: a "Shutter Angle" angle control, a "Samples" slider, and a "Native Shutter Angle" checkbox that overrides the shutter angle control with the comp's settings. Then I have 4 expressions:
On the shutter angle:
if(effect("Native Shutter Angle")("Checkbox")==1)
{
thisComp.shutterAngle
}else{ value}
On the Samples:
clamp(Math.ceil(value),2,128)
On Echo Time:
fr = thisComp.frameDuration;
SA = -(360/effect("Shutter Angle")("Angle"));
smp = effect("Samples")("Slider")-1;
fr/(SA*smp)
On Number of Echoes:
effect("Samples")("Slider")-1
I could send the FFX if you're on the MDA/Mograph.com slack, but this should pretty much do it :)
I've tried making the samples based on the velocity of the layer, but haven't been able to get consistently good results across the boards. Would give a really nice performance boost though, since Echo can get pretty heavy quickly.
We’ve needed a series like this for so long you’re a Saint
Woah, I loved this one. I already feel that I'll be using this effect and this tips all the time. Thanks, Jake!
these extra bits of information like use of expressions along with particular effects make tuts worthwhile.
PS could you please make a tut on effect named image sample or sample image, there's also an expression by that name.
So smart. Thank you!
Whenever I write expressions like this in AE (although this one, and “.speed” were both completely new to me, so cheers for that) I’ve always declared a variable at the beginning, then changed the value inside the if/then statement and called the variable at the end. Aside from learning a bunch of stuff about the Echo effect, it made me realize I was making things hard on myself and writing 2 extra lines every time.
This is an excellent explanation for Echo effect, thanks for sharing!... Greetings.
_You are the best, bar none._
That was very nicely explained, i mean i watched a video with expressions! and i stood around and understood it, thank you :D
im always typing "anime teleportation effect" when i actually wants to happen is this exact effect. Atlast, the search is over.
Jake thanks soooooo much for the work you are doing. I'm watching all of your videos. I've learn a lot. Your explanations are very good. Thanks again!!!
Great tutorial! Thanks a lot:)
Thank you for sharing this.
Thanks for your tutorial. I think it would be nice to add a linear or ease expression to make this responsive to other speed values as well.
THANK YOU.
I thought I knew how to use Echo effect- before seeing this. Thanks as always.
killer tutorial
Great, thank you.
I just wish I knew this earlier. Could've save me some time rendering.
Nice one🖤
Awesome one
Great job , 👍👍👍👍
good tut.
Very useful! Thanks
To Echo what Startup Motion said, very useful! Thanks.
Zing!
Genius...
Witchcraft ❤️🔥❤️🔥
Thank you
Woah..i never knew that double clicking a property in the effects panel would open it
by itself in the timeline...thanks for that Jake. Wow lol.
[slaps himself silly]
I LOVE YOU
awesome
I have created 4 or more points mask then Subtract the layer.
Now I want to echo only right ride or line of mask, all other remain nothing.
I hope u get it. Sorry for weak english
Hey Jake, no wonder you look and sound familiar. What a crazy small world. You're Aaron's brother. I love how you're both AE experts now. Aaron and I worked together in the before times and you visited Participant one day.
That's great! 😃
@@JakeInMotion oh, we've met.
Also, thanks for the great help!
does the onionskin doesnt work anymore?
Could you let us know where you got the sfx for your intro? Epidemic?
Boombox from Mt Mograph!
@@JakeInMotion ahh I didn't know about this. Thank you!!
NIce 😎
How come the echo effect for me just add all the new copies underneath it?
You need to have Collapse Layer/Continuous Rasterization switched on for the layer you're trying to echo.It's the icon that looks like a star.
why does echo make the video apppear brighter
Because the default mode is set to blend. All the echoes are combined and make a brighter image.
@@JakeInMotion How do i get the echos to appear? im using paint brush right now and nothings happening
my echooo
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6:40
u forgot the card mate
Whoops! Thanks for the catch.
Oh man .... those expressions.... It is a great tutorial but discouraged me from learning Nuke. I mean if After Effects is supposed to be easier to learn than Nuke, then imagine what the Nuke scripts would look like 😂😂😂
Does anyone know how to make the trace of the "echo" effect not disappear during the entire composition and remain static after the appearance? (I need to recreate an effect similar to the one in the Solitaire card game in windows, probably as many of you know it, there falling cards leave a trace after winning the game). I tried to increase the number of echoes, but this leads to the fact that they are always striving for the "emitter" and dissapear then. In addition, a large number of echoes reduces the performance of the program, without visually increasing echoes after a certain threshold.
P.S. I came up with the idea of precomposing and using time remapping on compositions where there is an echo. The method is not quite suitable, because the echoes do not appear from the current position of the layer, but from its starting position, so the ladder of echoes is constantly moving, and they must appear once from under the emitter and remain in place. But the precompose at least helped solve the problem of their disappearance after some time.
I came here looking for someone asking this question. I'm also looking for this same effect! I want to pause an echo before it ends. Kind of like opening a slinky and closing it again. Does anyone know how?
I apreciate your work and you really are helping a lot. But I have to get it out: After Effects is the worst. I started learning 3d and are realizing how counter intuitiv and inefficient ae is. I dont get it!
I completely understand your frustrations. I think a big part of the problem is that AE has been around for so long, and there is nothing out there to compete with it. If another piece of software is able to really challenge what AE has to offer and do it in a better or more intuitive way, big changes will happen at Adobe.
@@JakeInMotion it's powerful, no doubt! It's not just frustrating, sometimes it's actually really satisfying. But what you say is true. I was just talking about it with some other animators. Said the same.
Thanks again for your work and support.
hm, I need you to make a video about Fog3D, in effects and presets under 3D channel category.
Awosem
Plz sir tell my name in your next video I love you sir and I am from India
Thanks!