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I’m pleased to announce version 2.0 of Ease and Wizz, the After Effects palette for smoother easing. It’s an adaptation of Robert Penner’s easing equations for Flash, and gives you more options when you’re tweening values such as position, rotation, or scale.

The big change in this version is that now you can tween along a curved motion path, which was previously impossible (the expression would effectively ignore the bezier curves, and the resulting motion path would be linear). Also, you can now apply easing expressions to mask paths and shape paths.

I call this monumental addition … “Curvaceous”.

Note that when using Curvaceous, you will no longer have access to Back and Elastic tweening. The (slightly techie) explanation for this that rather than tweening the actual value of the property, Curvaceous tweens the time of the property, using the valueAtTime method. As the Back and Elastic easing types actually overshoot the original keyframes, Curvaceous has no way of knowing how to extrapolate the extra data to move past the last value. Simply turn off Curvaceous if you require Back or Elastic (the palette updates when you toggle Curvaceous, so you don’t need to commit this to memory).

http://ianhaigh.com/easeandwizz/

Hope you find it useful!

Ease and Wizz, my adaptation of Flash easing equations for use with Adobe After Effects, broke with the release of After Effects CS4. However, thanks to Adobe’s free trials, I’ve managed to get it working again.

You can grab Ease and Wizz 1.12 here.

When you’re used to using programs like InDesign and being able to position things to within 0.3 nanometers, it’s frustrating to then use Microsoft Word and lay out pages with all the elegance of a drugged wildebeest in high heels.

So. I wrote these little scripts in Visual Basic — I know, weird, huh? — and they let you set the position of the left and top edges of the graphic you’ve got selected.

Warning: you have to be geeky to even get these to work, let alone to use them, but they might help out someone tasked with the unhappy task of making a Word document look good.

vb_layout_scripts_for_word.zip

Favourites include getPosition, setLeft, and setTop.