QUIZ #5 study guide (Wednesday 04/16/14)

  1. Expressions and FrameBlending and Time covered on Friday 04/11 and Monday 04/14/14. See lynda.uni.edu for the indicated video tutorials.

    Note: This FrameBlending.pdf PDF was a handout in the Monday class.

  2. Time Remapping and the Milk Glass. Study, watch and do the 18m 14s lynda.uni.edu video tutorial.
    3. Time Remapping                                  18m 41s
       
       * Spotting hit points in time                    4m 39s
       * Keyframing time                                7m 51s
       * Refining speed changes with the Graph Editor   6m 11s
    

  3. Read and study the 5 page long PDF reading from the After Effects Apprentice textbook material. Note page 6 is same as page 5. :-)

  4. After Effects Expressions: Gravity and Bouncing Ball. Watch the video and answer the 14 questions. The quiz #5 questions will be closely based on the 14 questions on the video tutorial, but will NOT be confined to those questions.
    Bouncing Ball video and AE Expressions
      
      time
      Math.cos(time)
      Math.cos(time*2*Math.PI)
      Math.abs( Math.cos(time * 2 * Math.PI) )
      
      Math.exp(time)
      Math.exp(-time)     Why use -time instead of time????
    
      Why use Math.cos() instead of Math.sin()?
    
      Math.cos(time)     becomes -----> Math.cos(time*2*Math.PI)
    
          Why multiply time by 2*Math.PI?
    
               Math.cos(time)
    
                       Math.cos(time*2*Math.PI)