Malex, This code does not seem to really work. No matter what values I put in, it does not change the speed or duration of footage. I applied it to a time map of a precomp. I am looking for a way to randomly select a frame from a precomp, have it remain on screen for x number of frames, then choose ...

Visit here perhaps...?

http://www.jjgifford.com/expressions/re ... index.html

This kind of works, but there is no hold.

Dan, No it does not matter. I got this idea from watching some footage I made with my camcorder. It was the end of summer and there is green grass and dead leaves on the lawn. I put my camcorder in the grass and drove it around the lawn like a kid would do with a tonka truck. This produced a neat ef...

Hi All, I am trying to make an expression to achieve a certain effect. Imagine a comp 720x480, a solid 3D layer 160x600 and a camera. I move the anchor point of the solid to the bottom of the solid. Now I can rotate the X axis and make it lay flat from the bottom. I want to put a bunch of these litt...

I would take a look at this page:

http://www.jjgifford.com/expressions/re ... index.html

Maybe you can adapt something?

The effect is called called "ducking" in the audio world. If you have access to an audio program or editor, you may want to "prep" the music bed in external software. But if you really are stuck with After Effects processing, why not just extend your expression a bit. [code] temp...

You could always just read the text from a file, then assign it to a layer.

Then you would know how many lines of text you created.

Of course, you can not create paragraph text via jsx code in AE7. CS3 , I don't know?

I'm not sure if your layers are text or images, but here is a link to a script that will import everything in a folder and make a comp for you. http://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=719 http://aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=102 The code in this script actually generates expressions for you, so i...

I guess your right, I can not connect either. Jscript is Microsoft based and After Effects Javascript seems to be proprietary. I did find this arcticle: http://www.creative-workflow-hacks.com/2006/06/08/how-to-use-a-spreadsheet-to-generate-lower-thirds-slates-titles-etc-in-after-effects/ So how does...

The one thing I notice is that you reference "worksheet(1)"

In my VB version I simply referenced "Sheets(1)"

Maybe it is something as simple as that?

Try changing worksheet(1) to Sheets(1)

Thanks Dan, That looks like it works! Hmmm... An interesting side effect of this expression is that is crashes After Effects 7 if you change the length of your comp. Here is the work flow for creating the crash. 1.)Make a new comp that is 10 seconds long. 2.)Add some text and turn on the 3D switch. ...

Hi All, I have been trying to do camera after motion. I have this expression: t = time- key(2).time; if (t < 0) { value; } else { veloc =28; amplitude = 60; decay =2.05; x = amplitude*Math.cos(veloc*t)/Math.exp(decay*t); y = amplitude*Math.sin(veloc*t)/Math.exp(decay*t); value + [x,y]; } Which does ...

The "jump" of the pre-composed layer somtimes may be the result of the camera position in the pre-composed layer. This took me a while to figure out. If I am making a 3D object that I plan on manipulating further up the stack I zero the camera in the comp and use the "Custom View"...