Accurate Timer For Sports
Hi all. I'm trying to make an expression you apply to a text layer to time sports videos accurately. So far, I have the minutes and seconds figured out, but can't seem to get the milliseconds to work....
View Articlecontrolling nulls with expressions
I am having an issue with an expression I'm working with. I am trying to produce a dynamic graph (among other visualisers) that appears to be being controlled by a datastream - the artifical datastream...
View ArticleExpression Issue - Photo Slideshow
Dear forum, I need some advice on expression settings in After Effects. The project I am working on is a slideshow with 300 photographs. They move from left to right (panning horizontal while...
View ArticleHow do I find where a Pick Whip Link goes
I've long ago created a bunch of pick whip relationships in a project, and can no longer find where the links go. If I look at the code it says content("Ellipse 1").transform.scale But I have about...
View ArticleAfter Affects Expressions
Which expression can I use to randomize two different colors?
View Articlestroke width with expression
Hi, iam trying to set stroke width based on shape scale, (to maintain fixed stroke size) so ive used "(1/transform.scale[0])*500;" for stroke width expression, but this only works for either stroke...
View ArticleFont Size Expression
I need an expression that would automatically change the font size based on how many characters are typed in. The goal is to fit multi-line text into a bounding box as it's read from the external text...
View ArticleHelp with 3D Layer Position Expression
Hi All, I do hope some one can help me – I have been looking and trying to solve this expression problem I have run in to - I only have limited expression knowledge. I need to move a layer in 3D space,...
View ArticleList of all expression keyword not included in official documentation
Hi everyone, I came accross a tutorial by Harry Frank of Gray Machine. In this old post he give a tutorial on having dynamic text with an external text file... He is using a keyword wich is often use...
View ArticleBlinking Cursor
I have been using an expression for blinking cursor text but wanted to see if it can be enhanced. Here is the expression that I used Apply to the Text Source of a text layeradd a slider controls to...
View ArticleProblems with an expression...
I hope I'm not double posting but was told that this would be a better place to post this question: Here's the scenario: I have two comps: CompA and CompB Source Text example: "DEN" (text layer in...
View ArticleControl Layer in point of expression % Number Count
I have an expression that Dan Ebberts created for number counting with a percentage sign beginCount = 0;stopCount = 100; beginTime = 0; // start counting at time = 0countDur = 4; // count for 4...
View Article3D WARP/3DBEND: geometry expression no show?
"3D warp" as seen on tv.adobe "What's New", does not seem to be available on my version of CS6 AE (from disk). I'm not getting the geometry option even though,I have the 3D box checked and it is a...
View Article'Drift Over Time' but with easy-ease?
I'm using the nifty Adobe Drift Over Time preset. But its movement is linear. Any way to add an easy-ease to the start of it?This is applied to the position property of the Transform...
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Keeping linked 3D null orientation straight
When using Cinema 4D, I routinely attach AE layers to exported 3D nulls. And everything works as expected. However, I have a project where camera and object are at angles and I need the AE layer to...
View ArticleExpressions in AE
Hello all, Have a quick question - I'm coming from a flash/actionscript programming background and am fairly new to AE. I started to experiment with expressions, and it seems that communication between...
View ArticleLayer1 invisible when Layer2 facing away from the camera in an other comp
Hi I've got a main comp with many Picture comps.A cam is flying from one picture comp to the next and so on.Each picture comp is made out of severalpre-comps.one of this pre-comps contains the frame of...
View ArticleHow to rotate a point around another one
I need to rotate a point reference in a effectaround another point (that is another effect point reference)keep the second one fixed and make a perfect cicle path. In other words:i have an effect...
View ArticleCancelling parent scaling in child
Any tips on getting a child to cancel out the scaling of its parent? The parent in this case scales X and Y differently, And I can't figure out how to anti-scale the child so it doesn't stretch. On...
View ArticleFocus distance speed to brightness filter expression
Hi- I'd like to create an expression that links the speed at which a camera's focus distance changes to a brightness filter.So, for example, if the focus distance changes abruptly and quickly, I want...
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