• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  ‘Animating’ the input text over time.

  Posted by Bas V breugel on September 9, 2009 at 2:18 pm

  Hi guy’s!

  I would like to make 1 sentence animate over time. Like DOS on a computer reading files.

  something like “://employees/chuck_norris”
  And then on the same sentence; chuck_norris changes to johhny_appleseed and so on.

  So you see 1 sentence but after 1 second its changes in a different name.

  To work arround it, I should have all seperate txt layers and make an edit but that would be alot of work. I hope to copy-paste the list of names in 1 text layer and apply an effect or expression what would automate it.

  Sorry for the poor explanation as im not a native english speaker.

  Thanks in advance.

  Bas V breugel replied 16 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  September 9, 2009 at 4:18 pm

  Maybe something like this:

  myText = [“sentence 1”, “sentence 2”, “sentence 3”, “etc…”];
  sentenceDuration = 1;

  idx = Math.min(Math.floor(time/sentenceDuration),myText.length-1);
  myText[idx]

  Dan
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  Bas V breugel

  September 9, 2009 at 5:49 pm

  Brilliant! Thanks so much Dan.

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