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Rapidly show text word by word
Hi, guys. I wonder if there’s a way (expression – 3d party plugin – extension – some way) to accomplish what I must but without a lot of effort. I have a text – just a thousand of a single theme words written in a column. I need them al appear one by one in the centre of the screen in my video. Rapidly. Like 5 words per second. The most obvious yet clumsy way to do it is making a thousand layers with those words and then kill myself with opacity keyframes. But is there a simpler way to achieve that? I feel the answer is out there somewhere but I just cannot find it myself…
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From what you describe, it sounds like you have a list of words in a text layer, where each word is separated by a return (i.e. each word is on it’s own line). If so an expression on the source text could probably work for you, try this:
Twirl down the text layer’s properties to get to Text>Source Text and enable expressions for Source Text (select the Source Text property and choose Animation>Add Expression). Then add this as the expression:
lines = value.split('\r') ; rate = 5 ; // lines per second n = Math.floor( time * rate ) ; lines[n]It should animate thru each word at a rate of 5 words per second. If needed you can edit the ‘rate’ value in the expression, ex: rate = 10 would be 10 words per second.
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Thank you so much, exactly what I needed🧐
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