CE TimeShuffle
Have you ever tried to create time jitter effect that you saw in movies like The Ring, The Cell, or Fight Club? Well… stop trying. Do it!
This video tutorial focus is to create time jittering effect using one of my presets. You may have seen this effect in movies like The Ring, The Cell, or Fight Club. You may still create this kind of effect simply by playing with the TimeRemap function, but it’s much easier to use my preset.
Since this tutorial is a response for a question posted on CreativeCow forums I haven’t had time to record some footage to demonstrate how cool this may look when used properly, so I’m counting on your imagination. For example: try using the Echo effect after applying TimeShuffle.
The interesting thing is that this preset it behaves like a standard plugin. Well… almost like a plugin. The main difference between a standard preset and this CustomEffect (because thats what I call it) is that all controls like sliders and checkboxes are bounded into one item under the effects pallet of a layer. You have to see the tutorial to know what I’m referring to.
To install this CustomEffect you need to download my installer and the CustomEffect package. To learn more on installing CustomEffects on Mac and Windows please click here. Of course, you may still choose to use the standard preset instead of my CustomEffect, but I really encourage you to download my installer and bound polyCE files to it, because from this day forward I’m planning to upload my present in this format (at least the expression based ones).
I hope to see some comments on this, because if you’ll like it I’ll create a CustomEffect Deployment Tool, that will allow you to create and share your own CustomEffects.
See the original thread (by Speedyman) on CreativeCow forums.
Download: ceTimeShuffle.polyCE (CS2 CustomEffect)
Wow! Really cool techique, thanks :)
Conor Maher said this August 20th, 2007 at 0:06
What do I do with the two files in the pscei file?, can someone offer some help? thanks.
ftown said this August 22nd, 2007 at 5:16
It’s just a piece of software like notepad, word, or anything else. Best thing would be if you’d put it in some newly created folder and thats it. Just unpack it to a convenient place.
Maltaannon said this August 22nd, 2007 at 10:09
Thanks Maltaannon, that cleared it up for me. I took the liberty of writing out some instructions for any other brain dead and/or half asleep people.
1. download PolygonStudio_CustomEffects_Installer & TimeShuffle.zip
2. create a new folder in your AE programs folder, I named mine maltaannon because he is the man behind these great ideas/code.
3. drag two files, pscei._x_ ,and zlib.dll inside this folder.
4. open timeshuffler and double click timeshuffler, browse to your maltaannon folder, select the pscei.exe file, and check always use this app to open this file. when choosing what file to “open with” you may have to change “files of type” at the bottom to see the file.
5. pat yourself on the back, you did it.
ftown said this August 22nd, 2007 at 19:31
Thanks a lot. If you don’t mind I’ll put in on the “What CustomEffects are” page, so everyone else could get instructions there, because that is where I’m pointing to when referring to CustonEffects.
Maltaannon said this August 23rd, 2007 at 1:15
no I don’t mind, glad I could help. Custom Effects are a great way to work inside AE. Looking forward to the Deployment Tool if/when it arrives.
ftown said this August 23rd, 2007 at 1:34
Hey Maltannon. Thanks for the good tutorial.
I am also wondering how you wrote the expression so that the ball moves as the frame goes up? Math to me is like…..well I dont wanna say it :(
Can you please tell me how you set up the expression??
Also I would like to know how I can make it so that it writes the frame number as well??
I’m so sorry for my ignorance :(
Thanks!
J said this August 23rd, 2007 at 8:49
hi, thanks for the tutorials…
I discovered you just yet.
I am interested in matchmoving so much, 3d objects in 2d space; but very hard to find tutorials with this content.
thanks again and have a time…
ahmed said this August 27th, 2007 at 21:33
I am planning a tutorial on matchmoving, but I’m afraid that it will only be available on my Training DVD.
Maltaannon said this August 27th, 2007 at 21:45
Hey your the “Man-tannon”,
nice website, great Tuts. But the “Timeshuffle” Presets wont install at my system (virtual basic v6 installed).
At the installation Process it stops at the step “read package content” and windows says: “runtime error 53 - Data not found”
Anybody knows where the Problem is?
Franky from Germany
Franky said this August 27th, 2007 at 21:55
I’m working on it right this second. I’ve just compiled new version of the installer few minutes ago, so try downloading the installer again in a few minutes. It will hopefully be out of this nasty bug.
Maltaannon said this August 27th, 2007 at 22:19
Hi, again Maltaannon. When are you going to release your training dvd?
By the way, which 3d package you use ; I hope Maya…
ahmed said this August 27th, 2007 at 22:30
Hi,
because of my installation Problems,
i just tried to Open the “timeshuffler_std.ffx” through the Animationpresets Dialog in AE. Altgough it opens the Preset, it says “Class Effekt has no Method with the name slider…Expression deactivated”.
Is this becaause im using a German Version of AE?
Franky
Franky said this August 27th, 2007 at 22:41
Hey Maltannon u are really fast!
I just read that u already refreshed the files.
Sorry i didnt refresh my browseer so i Couldnt see ur quick response!
I Download the new Version and test it right away…
Franky said this August 27th, 2007 at 22:47
Ahmed: I don’t really know yet. In a few months. I have some projects I have to finish first. And 3D package has nothing to do with my tutorials. I mean, it is irrelevant.
Franky: I wish i knew. Maybe thats it, but it would be kind of strange. Then exchanging presets even in their native FFX format would be impossible.
Btw. The installer is now updated. Go to the “What CustomEffects are” page and download the most recent version.
Maltaannon said this August 27th, 2007 at 22:48
Hooray, it works!
Thank u Maltannon, GREAT!
Visit Germany, i Invite u to taste the good German Beer. U drink, I pay :)
Keep on doing your work here!
Franky
Franky said this August 27th, 2007 at 22:56
Hey,
funny thing I just found out using a mov AV-File.
Audio is also timeshuffling!
Could be used as AudioFX (Forwarding a Tape, scrubbing a Timeline ect.)
Franky said this August 27th, 2007 at 23:08
I can’t find the mac version for download….I keep getting the polyce version for windows, not the XML version?
shyhalewd said this August 31st, 2007 at 3:05
Since TimeShuffler is the first CustomEffect I did, the ZIP file contains polyCE, and FFX file. FFX is for Mac users.
Maltaannon said this August 31st, 2007 at 13:24
Yeah I use windows xp and followed the directions and a warning box appears telling me there are five invalid arguements. It’s not working. Can you give me a way of loading this that works?
Ta Neil said this September 5th, 2007 at 22:58
If the Installer doesn’t work for you try using manual installation. You will find the instructions on the “What CustomEffects are” page.
Maltaannon said this September 6th, 2007 at 0:28
Please help me…I’m on a mac using cs3..and I don’t get your ffx file to work. When I doubleclick it, I get an error. So I tried to put it into my presets folder…but that doesnt seem to work either.
Thanks a lot in advance
Gregor said this September 28th, 2007 at 12:34
My god, this really simplified a long going question of time remapping. I did have trouble finding the CE presets…i then realized they are on the tutorial pages. Maltaannon inspires me.
Brian said this December 1st, 2007 at 3:07
This tutorial is also awesome Maltaannon!, i don’t wan’t to know how much time it cost without your preset :o . It’s very usefull and unique, thanxs a lot !
Keep up the good work !
Bob said this February 28th, 2008 at 22:20
Thank’s
it’s agreat tutorial
khaled said this March 1st, 2008 at 18:43
dear, mr. Jerzy!
Man, I just got to know your work two days ago and I am already becoming a big fan. Your tutorials and codes are fantastic and inspiring. I am enjoying the most watching and learning from them. Thanks!
I am not sure If anybody has ever told you that before but, anyway, I ended up figuring out by accident that it is much more simple to install yours CEs for AE CS3 on a Mac Intel machine than what you have told and what I have read here so far.
I just had to copy the unzipped archive folder of the CE (I’m not sure if it’s needed all the files but I toked them all anyway) and pasted them on this specific address on my Mac:
MacintoshHD/Library/ApplicationSupport/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/CS3/MediaCore/maltaannon/CE…
Tanaaaaa! (as you like saying) thats all: no coding, no .xml, no nothing! Just reopen AE and thats it, they will be there.
At least it is working for me perfectly. I already downloaded the CEpixelsample, CEshapeextruder (amazing! - great works out from it) and CEtimeshufler… so far!
Well I will keep checking things here until I have seen it all for sure!
I am a recently graduated 24years designer here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, working on my demoReel now trying to get into the busines and you already are one of the guys behind this.
As soon as my Demo is ready (by the begging of next week - I hope), I will post it onLine and send you the link.
Man, thanks a loot once again and keep on what you are doing here! You are definably expanding all the boarders. Hope great success for you in you future. By the way, how old are you? just curiosity..
Have a good goulash, some fresh Kozel and give lots of kisses on the cute polish girls for me!
from a big fan,
Danilo TM said this April 4th, 2008 at 18:37
Hey Danito! Thanks for all the kind words. And as far as my CE are concerned…. dude… you won’t believe it, but i just finished programming a cross-platform CE Installer, that I will publish soon. To bad you didn’t found out about it earlier. But thanks a lot. I haven’t checked that yet, but will surely do. Thanks again. good luck with your demoreel.
Happy AfterEffecting!
Maltaannon said this April 4th, 2008 at 18:50
great! i will use this in one of my next projects. thanks!
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