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How to cycle through a set of strings in after effects
My apologies to the internet for duplication, but I realized the Cow might be a better place for this question than the Adobe Forums.
I’ve learned how to cycle a number (say from 1 to 100) within a text field using an expression and the slider effect. Is there a similar way to take a group of strings, maybe defined in a text document or Excel file, and then have those strings cycle through a text field in After Effects? Specifically, I’m thinking…
- Create a text field in After Effects
- Define various text strings somewhere (text document? Excel file? Somewhere in After Effects?) For example: String 1: “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” String 2: “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” Etc., on down to say, 20 strings.
- Have a way to cycle those text strings (read: replace in place) from 1–20 when I set keyframes.
Anyone know how to do something like this? Thanks in advance.
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Actually, it looks like you got some great advice over there! 🙂
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Yep. Thanks for your thoughts on that thread. I actually ended up creating a handful of layers in Illustrator that I cycle through by changing opacity in After Effects. But for this case Dave’s solution probably would have been the best: just create keyframes on the text field’s source text and cycle through in that way since text changes create hold keyframes.
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