-
Small expression help
Hey guys, I’m currently working on a project, and I have some text. Now for that text to appear, I would like it to be placed on the screen (either using the z position or scale…z-pos. would be preferable though). Now this obviously is easy to do, but I was wonderring if there was an expression to save some manual keyframing for me, because I would like to “chop” up my text layer into diagonal pieces, all the same size, alot of them, and bring them onto the screen. I could surely do this manualy but it would be long, because I do not want the layers to all appear at the same time, but over a second or 2. So bassicly I’m asking if there’s an expression that will place layers over time. Thank you.
Also, is there any precise way of cutting up my layers?
-
2 Replies
-
Dunno, maybe you are looking at this the wrong way (to copy your words from your other post) ;o). Since text layers have no real per-letter-Z-depth, you may have a hard time. The only way I can think of to really precisely control this is to have each letter on its own layer and that’s pure madness. A better solution may be using Card Dance (again) in combination with custom maps. You may need a few layers of Card Dance, but I think it’s still easier than animating everything manually. For chopping the text into pieces, you should look at using transition effects – Venetian blinds can be wonderfully used to isolate separate rows and columns and you can then get rid of excess letters by applying another instance of e.g. a linear wipe. The only downside I see is that you have to work with many, many sub-comps.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
-
yeah I think I’ll find something else 🙂
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up