Here is a set of 17 presets that I’ve compiled over the years. I used these often and find them extremely useful. With some of them, they are so old that the code could probably a lot more tidy. But, they work… and they work well. So, I’m not going to mess with it.
Most of them are pretty straightforward. There’s an updated AutoFade that can use markers to cue in/out fade points.
The “bullet” set is a quick and easy way to create bullet points in AE, akin to everyone’s favorite design program, PowerPoint. Select the layer and tap the asterisk key on your keypad to cue the bullet points.
The rest, you can either figure out, or learn about by watching the video above.
These are FFX presets. If you don’t know how to install these, please check out the AE help page right here:
These are great! Just in time for a project coming up and these will save a ton of time.
-many thanks!
Lucas
Thanks for sharing these.
Thanks Harry!
Awesome!
thanks a bunch for sharing
Hey man !!! thanks for sharing !!! muchas gracias !!!
you can save a lot of time with this !!! Thank You !!!
Great stuff Harry!
I’ve used the auto fade and inertial bounce for a long time now. I love the bullets set and the new tweaks that you added to the auto fade.
Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks alot, that’s really handy.
Cheers,
S
Great work. Thank you very much.
Thanks Harry, great resource.
these presets will really save some time.
Best name for a preset library ever. I’ll be looking forward to the next 9998 super awesome preset volumes.
Thanks for sharing the presets – those are super awesome indeed
thanks man!
great timesavers. excellent
Great share Harry, very nice!
Harry,
Thank you.
Not just for the gift, but for all that you do to give back to the motion graphics community.
Best,
J
Thanks a lot Harry to save MY time!!!!
It seems like anyone who ends up working with after effects for a living for a number of years ends up having very similar experiences. I’ve almost created this same list of useful scripts from my own experiences. But I’ve never learned how to export my expressions to .ffx! So i keep a google doc online with a list of my favorite expressions so I can pull them down where ever I happen to be. This’ll help me out a lot though as another option to have access to these time-savers. Thanks for these.
Hey man, just wanted to say thanks so much for sharing these presets. I really appreciate the time and expertise that’s gone into accumulating these over the years. Thanks for being willing to share the knowledge.
Thanks Mr.Harry, it’s very useful
Your talent is endless, thank you once again!!
thanks so much Harry! you rock!
Hi Harry,
First of all, as the others, a big THANK YOU to share your experience with these usefull ffx.
2 things though :
- As a french user, some ffx return errors cause of language localization (for example in french “slider” is said “curseur” in expressions, so AE returns errors when applying the ffx).
I wanted to help in return : so I translated ffx that needed to be fixed in order to work fine in french version of AE, & saved them again (AE CS4). I made a zip that can be found here :
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1933742/graymachine_Presets_01_en_fr.zip
Feel free to integrate them in the download if you want (maybe some german, italian or spanish or any other language users will do the same), and your presets will be multi languages (as presets from Videocopilot are).
- An error occurred with the preset graymachine_popInOut_Y, that was not for language reason. I think there is a mistake in the code. I found this 2 times :
t = effect(“Transition Time (Frames)”)(“Curseur”);
p = text.animator(“Intro”).property.position[1];
ease(time, inPoint, inPoint + t*thisComp.frameDuration, 0, 100);
But the second line points to an unknown property (“Intro” ??), and generates an error.
It’s OK be removing the second line :
t = effect(“Transition Time (Frames)”)(“Curseur”);
// p = text.animator(“Intro”).property.position[1];
ease(time, inPoint, inPoint + t*thisComp.frameDuration, 0, 100);
I fixed it in the french ffx, but maybe you’ll have to do it in english ones ?
I hope this will help.
Cheers.
Thanks Snake! I’ve seen that error before… AE doesn’t seem to want to save the NAME of the animation group. I think this might be a bug.
As for the French version, thank you for your help!!!
I think I might have a method to do the remaining translations.
“Super Awesome Presets” is right! These are really great and they’ll definitely save me a whole lot of time. Thanks a lot for sharing them.
Awesome, will come in totally handy!
Making life easier, thanks very much.
You are one of the reasons I love the After Effects community. You guys have loads of tips, tutorials, and presets. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing your After Effects expertise with me. I really appreciate your work!!!
BR from Austria, Robert
it’s really awesome thanx henry . i appreciate your tuts ..
How could I take one of your Bullet presets to make a Bullet Fade On (or Off) effect? I just want each line of text to fade from 0→100% opacity at each layer marker.
Really awesome presets!
thanks for sharing it Mr.Harry J. Frank!
Keep it up and keep sharing!
Excellent info; kind pf you to offer to all, and very much appreciated!
Thank you so much for these wonderful, time-saving presets! You are very generous.
Thanks your for sharing!!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with all of us!
I noticed the bullet and popnout presets only work with text layers… is there a way to make them work with shape layers, or any other type of layer? Is it possible I’m just using them incorrectly?
Thanks!
Cody
Not the way it is now. It works with the range selector to drive the type one line at a time, which is pretty specific to how AE type animators work.
It would have to be heavily modified for shapes. What are you trying to do? Just stagger shapes in, one at a time?
Harry, thank you for the GREAT time savers! I’m having a problem on the bulletspring X though. When I apply the expression, my lines of text do NOT disappear of the right side of the screen to start – they start about 3/4 ON screen. I looked in the expression and it uses the comp size for position (my comp is 720 x 540), so I couldn’t move it. I tried changing some other parameters but nothing seemed to work. I even tried extending my comp size, then cropping it back to 720, but to no avail. What am I doing wrong?
Thasnks again!
kurt
Can you email me the project? It seems to work just fine when I try it in a 720×540 comp. The layer position itself isn’t affected, only the text animator position. It uses the width of your comp to move the type outside of the comp window one comp width, and returns it to the original position.
Harry, I love the inertial bounce preset for position. Is there any way to make a preset for rotation also? I could really use the help. Thanks!
I just realized that that bounce expression works for rotation too… duh
Yep, it works for pretty much anything you can animate.
Harry, is there an easy way to make the bullet slide and bounce come in from the left or top rather than the bottom and right?