• Adobe After Effects

  Expression to randomize time remap frame and hold for random time

  Posted by Marc Thomas on November 3, 2011 at 6:05 pm

  Hi everyone,
  I’ve been looking through posts and have had a very difficult time finding a script that both randomizes a time remap frame from a 5 frame precomp, AND can hold the still frame for a random (15 60 frames).

  What I’m trying to do is sort of replicate the look of Christmas lights blinking in different colors, where dots are spelling out a word and are supposed to blink in 1 of 5 different colors, so holding for a moment, then changing to a different color. I don’t all the “lights” to change at the same time, say .5 seconds, and it’s waaay too fast if the colors are only up for 1 frame.
  Also if anyone can suggest a script for having each dot appear on screen in random order and then holding for the duration of the comp, that would also be a HUGE help. I’m working with upwards of 75 Layers, so doing this manually is inefficient.
  Any help is greatly appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Marc

  Michael Szalapski replied 14 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Michael Szalapski

  November 3, 2011 at 7:50 pm

  You might consider posting questions like this in the expressions forum. You’d probably get a better response there.

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