• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  What’s wrong with this syntax?

  Posted by Sean Jenkinson on July 6, 2020 at 8:59 am

  Hi,

  I’m following a tutorial in ‘The Power of Expressions’ about optimisation in expressions and I created the following three lines (as directed by the text in the book):

  var Variable1 = 10;
  let Variable2 = 10;
  const Variable3 = 10;

  After Effects has disabled this expression because of a syntax error on line 2, which it claims is missing an expected ‘;’. I’ve checked and rechecked the text in the book but I can’t see a difference.

  What am I not understanding about this?

  I’m using AE CC2020.

  Many thanks.

  Sean Jenkinson replied 6 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Scott Mcgee

  July 7, 2020 at 7:58 am

  Sounds like you are either using an old version of after effects or haven’t turned off Legacy in your expression settings in project settings.
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  Sean Jenkinson

  July 7, 2020 at 8:41 am

  That’s solved it. Many thanks.

  SJ.

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