• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Random jumps in time

  Posted by Martin Löfqvist on April 25, 2008 at 9:41 am

  Hi,

  wondering:

  Is there a way to random jump cut a clip in time? i.e:

  Doing a composition with a shape that changes every say… 5 sec.
  Nesting that comp and making a couple of duplicates.
  Is there any way to make random jumps in time at every duplicate here? (Like saying: go to frame XX stay there for 4 sec and then go to frame XX and stay there for 4 sec…)

  Is this understandable? 🙂

  Martin Löfqvist replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Lloyd Alvarez

  April 25, 2008 at 1:01 pm

  You will need to turn on Time Remapping and apply this expression:

  holdTime=30; //# of frames to hold for

  k1=key(1).time * (1.0 / thisComp.frameDuration);
  k2=key(2).time * (1.0 / thisComp.frameDuration);
  posterizeTime((1/thisComp.frameDuration)/holdTime);
  r=random(k1, k2);
  framesToTime(r, fps = 1 / thisComp.frameDuration);

  -Lloyd

  https://aescripts.com
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  Martin Löfqvist

  April 25, 2008 at 2:17 pm

  Thanks a million, this is exactly what I’m looking for.

  Have a great friday
  /M

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