Can you animate filter properties?

If you are using the filter in the artboard the settings of the filter need to be animated to work. You could edit the filter and add this function to make it animated.

Depends on the filter and the way it was constructed. There are certain functions on the components that you can add to make it work. What is the filter in question?. Or is it one that you created?

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Shoblobloblo wrote: A good way to do this would be to just have a different variation property for every frame. This could be done manually but would be extremely time-consuming. Is there any way to do this?

as I wrote HERE, the FF team should adds automations such as 'change x parameter every x frames'.

I made small music videos by manually changing the parameters every few frames...that's the only way at the moment !

and I say it again, I really hope that the FF team will develop much further the video section of the Studio version.

That would be amazing. I don't know a lot about creating filters so I wouldn't really know what parameters to change. But the effect I would like is for the pattern of the brush strokes to change every frame so that it looks like it has been redrawn by hand. Right now it kind of just looks like a video moving underneath a filter. Like I said I think I could achieve this effect by changing the variation value every frame, but as you say it's not programmable. So I guess changing a noise value or something like that could work, I just don't know where that would be or how to do it. I really feel like they should just implement keyframes for all the variables, that would make the program much more attractive to use for animation.

Here is an example "Sketchy Painting by emme" video with a couple of properties animated and changes made to make it easier to animate. I added a Roughness animation which works in conjunction with Main Details. Also allowed change of the Curviness parameter as an animation. For most browsers you can right click the webm video to loop it. I've attached the filter to do this, it is FF13. If you need an earlier version let me know and I will try to get to it this weekend. Also will look at the Variation and changing every x frames concept.

Sketchy Painting animate 3.ffxml

Wow, thank you so much! I'm on Christmas holiday right now so I won't have time to test the filter. But this looks cool, only thing to note is that right now you can kind of see the brush strokes moving. And what I'm looking for is that every frame is completely random so there is no consistency between the brushstrokes between every frame.It's kind of hard to explain but if you see this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuNpwxuA5D0 you can see how every frame the shape of the object is the same, but the pattern of the brushstrokes is different. I don't know what parameter would achieve this, and I don't expect you to figure it out. I really appreciate the help you have given so far!

I have thought about just adding some random noise to the initial images and maybe that would achieve the effect I'm looking for.

Also noob question, would I be able to apply the animated filter to an image sequence and not just a still image?

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Rachel Duim wrote: Here is an example "Sketchy Painting by emme" video with a couple of properties animated and changes made to make it easier to animate.

Thanks very much Rachel for doing this and it seems very good and interesting