Position Expression Help.
Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 12:05 pm
I am new to using expressions in after effects. I was looking to see if people recommend expressions being faster than putting keyframes on every single layer. Which takes up a lot of time.
I have a comp. with 31 layers so far that contains text. Each layer of text is put below each other in the comp until it reaches the end and each layer extends across the whole comp with long sentences. I was wondering if there was an expression to tell the position to move to the left or right without keyframes and at a desired speed. Also if the layer could loop back again when it would reach to the end without motion title.
So far I keyframed layer 1 for 5 seconds, added a motion title, and moved its position to the right. Than I took layer 2 and pick whipped its position to the layer 1 position. I want this layer to move left instead and stay in its same position but animate left where it is from without having to keyframe it. But the layer is moving to layer 1 position and doing the same thing but I want it to stay on the same y-axis and move left.
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I have a comp. with 31 layers so far that contains text. Each layer of text is put below each other in the comp until it reaches the end and each layer extends across the whole comp with long sentences. I was wondering if there was an expression to tell the position to move to the left or right without keyframes and at a desired speed. Also if the layer could loop back again when it would reach to the end without motion title.
So far I keyframed layer 1 for 5 seconds, added a motion title, and moved its position to the right. Than I took layer 2 and pick whipped its position to the layer 1 position. I want this layer to move left instead and stay in its same position but animate left where it is from without having to keyframe it. But the layer is moving to layer 1 position and doing the same thing but I want it to stay on the same y-axis and move left.
Reigh