newbie question about scale situation...

[adamlewen]

Hi again!
Another basic Q here...
I have a situation where an un-loop-able night scene on column 1 will get snow (with alpha) from column 2

My question is; Can I trigger the Night Scene to slowly "Scale In" when triggering Column 2?
Meaning when Col2 is triggered and snow starts falling, can Layer B Col1 Continue to Col 2 with Scale Animation?
Image example scale Q
I hope I am clear...

Thanks for any tip!

[Oaktown]

Is your "Night Scene" a video or a pic?

[adamlewen]

Thanks for the reply!
It's an un-loop-able piece of video...
I cannot time the moment when I trigger Col 2 (it's a live performance).

Adam

[Oaktown]

Layer router is your answer!

L1C1: night scene
L1C2: ignore column trigger
L2: blackout layer
L3C1: layer router with layer 1 as source
L3C2: layer router with layer 1 as source - animate scale
L4C1: nothing
L4C2: alpha snow

You could lose L2 if you turn the opacity of L1 to 0% and set the layer router to ignore opacity.

[adamlewen]

Thank you so much Oaktown! Layer router it is!
O my!!!

[Oaktown]

The layer router was the bomb and it got even better in R5!

I'm currently using a bunch of them in a comp I just created for a multi-media installation in San Francisco to allow me to have several independent nested sub-compositions in combination with the advance output and it works awesome!