06/01/2013

Great tut!!! thanks for your knowledge Andrew!

10/30/2012

THnaks! i TREALLY HELPED ALOT AND I WILL CONTINUE TO USE THIS WITH AVFSP and Maker Studios

10/30/2012

i don't know what to do

07/27/2012

muy buenos productos

06/26/2012

Ive done all of it in a diferent layout animation etc... but my numbers when animated become giant numbers like... 0% to 70% at 68... it becomes 68,854432356 ... Does anyone have the same problem? how can i fix it? to giveme only exact numbers 30, 31, 32, 33... 69,70...

06/01/2013

Sorry, disregard the back slashes in the expression I posted. They weren't there when I copied and pasted but I guess the sight generated those when I posted the comment.

06/01/2013

Same happened to me. Alex is right... watch the Futuristic HUD video and see how Andrew uses the math.floor expression. He does the expression around 19:06 in the video. It was easy to do, just follow verbatim. The expression for the text layer that was throwing out decimals now looks like this:

Math.floor(thisComp.layer("B3").effect("Bar Value")("Slider"))

Hope this helps!

01/05/2013

watch his Futuristic HUD Video. There is an expression to round to the nearest integer. I believe (Not Sure) it is "Math.floor(value)." Pickwhip the value to whatever integer is giving you a weird decimal. Your Welcome

07/12/2012

math.floor, math.round should help.

03/19/2012

what should we do with the Coin Idea?

01/27/2012

im sure i did the steps...the bars wont go up when i "animate it up" :/ help anyone?

06/01/2013

I assume you think you followed correctly by somewhere u must have went wrong. It happened to me as well. I thought I followed correctly so I change the slider value and the bar didn't move. I backtracked and found that I did the steps in the wrong order. Hope this helps!

09/20/2012

Download the Project File and then open up the .AEP after effect file that will have everything ready..

1: Download Project File
2: Open the Project File Folder
3: Go to Dynamic Graphs
4: Open After Effect file
5: There you go !! :)

12/09/2011

OK I scanned the comments and I don't see that anybody else ran into this, maybe I did something wrong... when I pasted the expression for Time Remap (with Bar Value at 100 and Percentage animated to go from 0 to 100), the animated bar graph clipped jumped to the beginning of the clip. If this happens to you, you'll see it because all of a sudden your masked area looks all funny... that's the masked area showing the beginning of the animation.

The fix was to offset the final value computed by the expression, by 40 frames (the length of the opening camera move). But wait! You don't just add 40... expressions want seconds not frames. So add 1.667 (40 frames divided by the clip's frame rate of 24):

(InputVal*Length*thisComp.frameDuration*ratio)+1.667
or
(InputVal*Length*thisComp.frameDuration*ratio)+(40/24)

hope that helps somebody that finds the same issue I had. I feel like I screwed something up because I don't see that anybody else had this problem.

10/26/2011

Andrew,

Your comedy made the tutorial that much more enjoyable - thank you!

I'm new to After Effects and I can already tell I'm going to be viewing your tutorials frequently. Well done!

Cheers!

Chris

10/16/2011

Please describe the expressions better

07/30/2012

ooo really

07/30/2012

ooo really

08/31/2011

Hi Andrew, I´m a big fan of your work. For some reason i cant get the percentage to work correcly. i dont no what it is i'm pretty shure i'm following all the steps correctly.

08/29/2011

Just great tuts my man, and U'r hilarious...thanks for the reat tuts

08/03/2011

The fiscal projections look very promising in 2011... wrong. I'm from the future and that is incorrect.

08/03/2011

It will be very cool for my next presentation. Thank you a thousand times, you da man

07/05/2011

plz give me a title for my MBA acouting plz

06/07/2011

andrew you rockzzzzzzzzz man

05/26/2011

I can't tell you how many times you've saved my life over the past few days. Awesome tutorials. Thanks very much and keep them coming!

03/31/2011

By the way, if you don't have a 3D editing program you can use Blender. It's free and easy to use. Get it at www.blender.org. Avaliable for Windows, Linux and Mac. I use it, and it's really powerful. I reccomend it.

03/20/2011

Well that was a good video, i take it i cant link the values to a mysql database so when the values change in the database then so does the graph! sorry am new to it all :(

02/18/2011

lol! the project name says Giraffes. am i the only one who noticed that hahaha

01/27/2011

u r awesome andrew kramer the king of motion graphics

01/23/2011

Why is it when I use the big expression, it just erases my bar 1 and max value
Plz someone help

01/07/2011

Hey,Andrew I come from China.And I think I'm in love with AE .You're my best teacher.

01/02/2011

hey andrew. i was wondering if you can give me some tips on how to make a intro so i can show my work to some possible clients
Thanks,

Nb sagar (nandu)

12/22/2010

You are able to do the masking a using object channels and outputting from 3dsmax as a RLA sequence file

Then you can just select which channel you would like to display and it will mask it for you. might involve a little more setting up but after that you wont need to do any masking of your 3d boxes

12/03/2010

hahaha, "well, I don't have a dog, but if I did, it probably would have eaten the cat and also got sick"
anyway, great tutorial, and I love your site

11/18/2010

This tutorial just got me out of a very tight spot with a client who wanted around 70 animated bar graphs that could be changed at very short notice... in three days. Thanks SO MUCH! haha the potential for this technique is unreal too. cheers

10/28/2010

hey Andrew great tutorial. I encountered one issue and i was hoping i could get some guidance. When I sync the numbers to the graph some of the numbers have decimals place. Is there a workaround for that?

10/13/2010

Hi Man!!!!

I'm very glad because I found this amazing page to learn AE.... Thank you very much Andrew, and I wish you all the successfully with this fantastic job.

10/01/2010

Simply, to you and your Team, Thank you.

I used this tutorial to display overtime expenditure and the conference room requested a replay of the graphics, it was hilarious, I gave them your website after the meeting !

Keep up the Great Work.

08/22/2010

i like every tuto you send of wed tanck you

07/20/2010

Hey brother,
You,re amizing man.
I have a problem abt how can i improve the quality of my video in AE.
For eg. How can i remove noise grains and e.t.c
pls I need your fever

07/09/2010

I like the training you give about AE, but do you have trainings for EA on mac. I'm just starting to learn this. but all your good stuff don't work in my new mac!
If i bey your stuff, will it work on my new Mac.

06/17/2010

Hi andrew!

Big fan here. Was wondering if you could do a more in depth tutorial on this as i'm sure many of your viewers really can make use of this graph making tutorial on Aftereffects.

What i meant by in depth would actually be a guide to making your own (cool looking) bars using Aftereffects or Photoshop. And also, I noticed that the exp values actually increase together with the bar animation for the 2nd Comp "Glow Bars". How is that done as well?

Thank you!

06/12/2010

Hi...

I uploaded one demo in youtube the URL is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW6RZLvyklQ how can I improve this demo with the help of after effects.

If any online Tutorial is available that will be more help full for me.Please help me

Thank You

05/31/2010

also thanks from Wuxi Jiangsu China

05/24/2010

thanks from china anhui

05/20/2010

WOW!! you so rock Andrew!!

05/11/2010

Does your animation have to be exactly 100 frames for this to work, because mine looks off. The values aren't proportional to the heights of the bars. My animation is about 24 frames is why I ask. Thanks for any help

04/30/2010

hello andrew sir

You are genieous and your tutorial and very termenndous thanks,
i get a many help for you tutorials

04/24/2010

All thanks and appreciation to manage the site for the tremendous efforts that bring to Mtabaehm and the audience that I expect to be their audience is all the world as a whole
Yousef Hamadeh - Gaza - Palestine

04/21/2010

awesome for school presentations:)

thanx a lot

Justus R.
Germamny

04/16/2010

Lookin good as always - Hey how did you light that scene in 3ds max? It looks glassy almost

04/16/2010

andrew u rock!!
love u..!!

03/31/2010

Nice tutorials... Dude.. thanks to sharing.. this..

03/22/2010

Hi! I have replaced the expression within the "Text":
thisComp.layer("bar01").effect("BAR Value")("Slider")

by this:

g=thisComp.layer("bar01").effect("BAR Value")("Slider") * thisComp.layer("bar01").effect("Percentage")("Slider") / 100;
g.toFixed(0);

So that not only the bar is lively, but also the amount that corresponds to each bar and the results were cool!

P.D: Excuse my English, I speak Spanish and used a translator

02/23/2010

Props 2 Andrew ;)

02/05/2010

HEY ANDREW! NICE TUTO, YOU HAVE THOUGHT SUSTITULAR THEM ABOUT SPANISH. GREETINGS FROM NICARAGUA

02/04/2010

hey can anyone tell me how to .. after completing the toturail, at the end he brings back the camera movement, how does he do that? I keep trying to bring back the camera movement but i cant

02/03/2010

The part of the dog eating a cat and been sick, made my day, i was very angry, i like to see your tutorials to feel better.

01/29/2010

Hola soy un Argentino interesado en su paquete casi completo de casi todos los programas el precio estaria establecido en pesos no en dolares, solo es para quedarme tranquilo bueno nada espero su respuesta lo antes posible desde muy atte:

01/20/2010

Thanks, really great tutorial, once again! I noticed that a few people have posted interest(myself included), in the Bars that were created in 3ds Max. I realize this is an AE forum/site though, I also noticed in certain instances, AK included what he did in 3ds max. Can I ask for an addendum to this tut that explains how he got those great bars, or at leat a writeup on this blog on how he did it? I know the focus is the animation and getting the end result of controlling images and the like, but with such a cool look, you can't help us wanting to make an animation that looks just as cool. Thanks again!

01/18/2010

Hey Andrew You are the best.Great Job Man.

01/18/2010

I taught myself AE with your help. thank you so much. I also purchased about half your product and now I have quite the income thanks to your willingness to help others. thank you all!!!

01/18/2010

Great tutorial Andrew !! great job ! and wise solution !
only it would be more usefull if it was rendered without the blue athmosphere so we can blend it to our sceans !

thanks from morocco !!!

01/18/2010

good work , thanks

01/17/2010

Yea hes probably not the best, but for sure these are the best AE tutorials on the internet.

01/13/2010

ive tried it in combination with your sound key tutorial ... you can easily build your 3d equalizer or something like that ... nice idea :)

01/13/2010

Andrew Kramer...sincerest thanks for the fantastic job you're doing. I'm fairly new to motion graphics and truly appreciate your clarity in all your tutorials. I appreciate your sense of humor too. Your team of professionals truly deserve a great deal of thanks for the outstanding time and effort put into your tutorials...many thanks dude!

01/11/2010

Thanks Alot you are The Great AVATAR! for Adobe AE.

Hasan Dubai

01/10/2010

You Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love your tuts... im gonna learn AE with your tuts... really

01/08/2010

great work Andrew Kramer your a Godsend ... thank you for sharing your work with the enthusiast... motion grafics community ...ur a motivational factor when were sometimes discourage...

thanks again
Greetings from Guyana South America

01/06/2010

Great tut! you awesome. learnt lot of useful things

01/06/2010

it is nothing but owesome! Greeting form china

01/05/2010

I`m not sure what I like more - your humor or the quality of your tutorials. Greetings from Germany.

12/30/2009

Awesome Tutorials, you are the best with after effects

Greetings from Italy^^

12/28/2009

This tutorial is astounding for its cleverness. Somebody give Andrew a Nobel Prize, or something.....

12/28/2009

Andrew - another awesome tutorial. Thanks so much for everything you do!

I thought it would be cool to animate the values under the bars too. Here is an expression that will do that. Put this expression in the Source Text for each layer. You'll need to also change "Bar 01" to "Bar 02" for the second text field, etc. It just has to match whatever you named your comp for the corresponding Bar.

AnimationCompletion=thisComp.layer("Bar 01").effect("Percentage")("Slider")/100;
x = thisComp.layer("Bar 01").effect("Bar Value")("Slider")*AnimationCompletion;
y = Math.round(x);
y

12/25/2009

love this andrew! really helpful for the project im doin! :))

12/23/2009

MIL GRACIAS....

12/22/2009

really greatfull tutorials.
i just want to tell you that if it was any possibility to translate the videos from english to french, people will come to watch videos more that they do now.However, i'm really happy to learn from your videos.
god luck

12/22/2009

GREAT!!! Very nice tutor!! from Nigeria.

12/21/2009

Why is the project called "Giraffes 02"? :P

12/21/2009

Nice Turorial....
But, if you can make a powerful twister...
Help Pleace....!!!
Video Copilot.... Is My Teacher...!!!
Thanks...

12/20/2009

hello Andrew, how are you? I am loving of the AE, everything that I learned until the start of this year was alone, but since January you have taught me very, I have 15 years and intend to be a Motion Designer, I find that I am learning with the certain person, you are of congratulations with its work.

I have a question, which the configuration of your PC?

The Friend there of low, exactly name, almost the same age that mine, that coincidence not?

12/19/2009

the background looks really good on this but the tutorial doesnt explain how it was created.. is it possible to explain that or make some tutorials with great constructed backgrounds and walls..

cheers from Australia

12/19/2009

Hello my name is Nicola and I am Argentine Spanish language as you know at this moment I am using a translator but Andrew tutorials are great but my question was whether they can translate or subtitle the tutorials, that would serve him much to people with Spanish language and also increase web visits to know that I am not the only one interested in these effects is so incredible that I am only 14 years and learned a lot from this alone I need you to please think

12/19/2009

hello my name is Nicola and I am Argentine Spanish language as you know at this moment I am using a translator but Andrew tutorials are great but my question was whether they can translate or subtitle the tutorials, that would serve him much to people with Spanish language and also increase web visits to know that I am not the only one interested in these effects is so incredible that I am only 14 years and learned a lot from this alone I need you to please think
atte
Nicolas

12/19/2009

good work man!!!

12/19/2009

It's a fascinating tutorial, you're my teacher


From Vic,Catalonia

12/19/2009

You explains it so good that I'm brazilian, I didn't make a english course (learn it with lineage 2) and I understand all of your tutorials!
You're so good. Congratulations by the great tutorials and products, and I want that you make a 3ds max tutorial with reflections, materials, bitmaps, metalic effects and more. You are so good! The logo with particular is so good too! Thanks!
Greetings from Brazil!

12/18/2009

Fantastic stuff,

12/18/2009

Hey Andrew,
I have an idea. When you make the 100th tutorial, if you can make a free package with all of the projects :) It will be cool !!!
By George. Greetings From BULGARIA !

12/17/2009

I wont to leering this program start with what ?
i need to u experience

12/16/2009

Hi, sir this is my 1st reply in ur site i really learn alot and don some amazing work with the help of ur tutorials u r doing a great job and may God give u more power 2 do this kind of amamzing work in future..... thanks again

12/16/2009

Awesome tutorial! Thanks! I' waiting for 100! Is 100 will be a New Year present?

12/16/2009

Hey Andrew can you give us an idea for something cool for Christmas ?? Something for the family :)

Greetings from Bulgaria !!!

12/16/2009

im expecting something special for century. WOW

But i know Andrew will come up with somthing Extraordinary. and sometimes, simplicity is extraordinary too. :p

12/16/2009

Andrew thank you for this tutorial, it falls at the right time to record my end of year

12/15/2009

I think that it would be a really good addition to make a 3D passes (bars and shadow with alpha separately from background) to skip this meaningless operations with cutting out bars from a footage.

12/15/2009

Oooo the 100th tutorial is making me anxious!!!!

These all look so good!!!! This is a great accomplishment Andrew!!

12/14/2009

As we just did your are the best and its was 83 bit on you and i have won it, its like a dream cames true.
best of luck.
AK,

12/14/2009

hey andrew. i was wondering if you can give me some tips on how to make a intro so i can show my work to some possible clients
Thanks,
Trevor

12/14/2009

im so gonna do something lyk this for skl or something...lyk a project..xD
thanx!!...


SUPERHERO TUTORIALS!!!..
there are so many ppl out there doing lyk whatever...
we need a little instruction and this site is just awesome for learning!!!..

12/14/2009

And now show us how to build the expression...

12/14/2009

Moustache gracias great tuto
i gonna take a drink for you from belgium

12/14/2009

think you Andrew very nice...I hope you will make more and more exciting things 3Dmax

12/13/2009

Hi Andrew! Great tutorial thanks!!

12/13/2009

Andrew your tutorials has changed my life. I never knew how to do all that stuff that I watched on TV or on a movie. Cheers from Mexico City.Keep doing great things.

12/13/2009

Great tutorial, amazing, it would have been cool if you explained the expression, but I'll check it out closer and try to figure it out by myself, it won't damage my brain I guess :)
Thanks a lot, your tutorial are reaching lots of people, thanks for your help, I wonder what is going to be tutorial number 100 hehe

Keep rockin' :) I bought some of your product they rock too.