• Adobe After Effects

  Random Color with Parameters

  Posted by Nick Adcock on October 25, 2010 at 8:01 pm

  Perhaps someone…cough…Dan Ebberts….has posted or has already created an expression for this. I have 8 colors I would like to cycle through randomly for say 5 frames at a time and hold on that color not blend between them. I’ve seen quite a few random color posts but none with these parameters.

  Thank you Thank you

  Nick Adcock replied 15 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Kevin Camp

  October 25, 2010 at 10:05 pm

  you could add the fill effect to the layer, add 8 keyframes to the color property, setting a unique color for each keyframe.

  then use an expression like this for the color property:

  posterizeTime(6); // value is in fps
r = Math.ceil(random(0,numKeys));
valueAtTime(key(r).time)

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  Nick Adcock

  October 26, 2010 at 7:54 pm

  Kevin,

  Thanks very much. That worked well.

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