Hi. I have a bunch of layers with the "circle"-effect applied on it. I have a "control"-layer with 4 defined colors. The aim is: Layer1: color1 Layer2: color2 Layer3: color3 Layer4: color4 Layer5: color1 Layer6: color2 ...(and so on) This is my lousy try, but it doesn't work: (a...

I have a composition full of classified style ads (each with a voiceover) with a music bed that runs the duration of the entire movie. I want the music bed to drop 10dB any time a voice over read shows up and rises back up 10dB when the voice over stops. Before laying down the Music bed, I can gene...

Why not simply maintain the relative positions using an elementary difference expression? Not sure what you're hoping to achieve, though. As soon as you add more than 2 pins, the mesh will stop to be rigid, regardless whether you retain the relative placement. It's inherent in how it's supposed to w...

Not really. Doing this would require to access the glyph bounding box sizes, kerning and spacing parameters which is not possible. If you know the bounding box size of each letter at a given point size, you could use the sourceRectAtTime() method and add them all together, but it would still be a gu...

See my reply at CGTalk. Please do not cross-post in the future. It's inefficient and will only cause confusion. If nobody else, I'll be around regularly at CGTalk, so you don't need to be afraifd that noone will hear you... ;o)

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I just can't figure out how to do "in-between" in a lot of expressions. Check Dan Ebberts' site. There's a "springy connection" example somewhere which is pretty much what you need. The conditions are the same, you just need to modify it to work for rotation ratehr than position...

So that works for my situation, but out of interest still wondering if it's somehow possible to build an expression that can take speed/influence values. I know that the ease, easeIn, easeOut are hardwired and it can't be accomplished that way, but is it technically impossible for the code to figur...

Is there anyway to replicate custom eases through expressions? For example, you can do this to animate opacity from 0 to 100 from 1 to 5 seconds. easeOut(time,1,5,0,100); But what if I wanted to put specific values for speed/influence? Anyone? Nope, ease is always hardwired. You could write a custo...

Hi all Does anyone the AE process or what type of expressions were used to create this great piece http://www.rmaxstudio.com/jobs/colors :) Not really too much expressions, I'd say. Perhaps some "follow the leader" stuff as on Dan Ebberts' website to get delayed animation, but mostly clas...

Is there anyway of reading another layers values that are controlled by expressions - but not the actual expression output... the keyframed values themselves? Nope. You're employing the wrong methodology. If you really need to re-use the position values, use them on a neutral layer (Null object/ in...

I have no problem with adobe adding a feature to scripting such as xml parsing...great! but they should also leave in the legacy code so us developers who have been utilizing scripts from the beginning aren't screwed. Sure, for a while this will definitely be the case but I think in the long run th...

See my answer on the AEList. Care to share with people who are not subscribed to the AE List? :wink: I think this is very pertinent to this site.. In addition to the info Jeff provided I was pointing out that in the future one probably should make good use of the XML functionalities that started to...

just stumbled across this in the cs3 scripting guide. NOTE: The After Effects global functions for standard dialogs and file I/O are still supported in this release, but are deprecated and will not be supported in future releases. For details, see the After Effects 6.5 documentation. anybody know w...

Hi. How can I create an expression on layer startTime ? I have one layer with some keyframes in the opacity transformation; I dup this and I would to change with an expression his startTime. Is it possible ? Thanks That's what .valueAtTime() is for. Apply it to whatever property you like and add an...

Do you think that maybe be possible to link the SourceText property of a "text layer" to read its content from a text file (.txt) No, that's not possible. All text is tored in a compound stream keyframe along with the formatting and there's no way to link it with external sources. Mylenium