heart monitor animation

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Elorah_Dannon
Jan 30, 2007
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I found a tutorial on how to make a heart monitor animation, but it’s not working out just right and I can’t figure out why. Here’s the link to the tutorial: < http://www.tutorialkit.com/tutorials/Heart-Monitor-53557.htm l>
The problem starts when he says to move the mask and fill it with black. If someone could help me figure this out or if you even have another way to accomplish this in either IR or AE, that would be great.
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glen_deman
Jan 30, 2007
Moving the mask:

Make sure you first select the mask, and not the gradient image itself; click on the mask in the layers palette to select it. Now, using the move tool, move the mask to the side until it’s no longer visible. Then use the paint bucket tool and click on the image (because the mask is still actively selected, you are actually filling in the mask with black).

The purpose of this is to create a mask that is wider then the image itself. This is what you’re actually creating:

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You have black on both sides of the gradient. On the first frame of your animation, the black that is on the right side of the gradient will cover the entire image. On the second frame of your animation, move the mask until the black that is on the left side of the gradient covers the entire image.

At that point you tween it so the gradient passes through the image and allows the "doctor thing" to be seen.

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Elorah_Dannon
Jan 30, 2007
OK, I actually got it to work by skipping the paint bucket step. I just went into IR and started with the mask to the left of the drawing. Added a frame where I moved the mask to the right side of the drawing and then tweened it. So, I’m still not getting what the paint bucket step was supposed to do….and what actually is it filling? The white parts of the gradient?
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glen_deman
Jan 30, 2007
You can think of it this way; say your image is 200 px wide. You make a mask that is 200 px wide. If you move the mask to the right, the edge of the mask is no longer covering the image. What you need is a mask that is wider than the image.

It’s hard to explain, but easy if you play around with the mask and see how it’s size affects your animation.
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Elorah_Dannon
Jan 31, 2007
OK, that addresses a problem I’ve been having. I’ll play around with it and see if I can get it to work. I’m having another problem now, though. I was importing the animated gif into Premiere to use it and it was importing just fine but now it just opens the "Importing files" box and sits there. So now that I’ve gotten the animation like I want it, I can’t use it! I really need to get this project done and can’t move forward until I can get this animation in there. Any ideas?

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