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AE Delay Expression
Hi there,
I have a question concerning moving things with expression. I am quiet new to the use of expressions so please appologise all dumb mistakes =)
I want to move multiple Objects in their Z Position using expression. That for I have attached the Z to a Slider. My problem now is that I would like Object 1 to move for example at time 0, Object 2 to move at time 1, Object 3 to move at time 3 and so on. Is there any way to just delay something?
thanks for all your help
cheers
Michael
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Drag your low res logo on to the new comp button, making a new comp with the size & aspect of your small logo(Precomp Logo).
In your animation. Precomp each layer, checking the “leave all attributes” box.
Import new larger res version and bring it into “Precomp Logo”. Lower the opacity to 50% and eyeball/scale it to match the size of the small logo. If the anchor points are the same, or you know that it’s 2x the size this will be easy. Once you have it matched, bring the opacity back to 100 & delete low res version.
Select each of the precomp layers in your main animation, select “Precomp Logo” from your project window, hold down alt and drop on one of the layers. Should change all your layers to the new precomp. Now just use the “collapse layers/continuously rasterize” button and scale up to your hearts content.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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your expression was truncated, can you please paste again?
Thanks.Xinlai Ni
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Hi Xianli,
it was not really any special expression. I just linked the Z position of a solid to a slider control.
Is that possible to have it delayed like I described above somehow?thanks
michael
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I guess I didn’t understand how you want to specify the movement. Are you trying to manually move the slider around hoping to see your layers move their Z-coordinates accordingly? Are you going to control your slider by key-frames at the end? If all you need is a delay of the layer’s movement with respective the corresponding z-slider’s value, you can simply move valueAtTime as below (for each layer’s position property).
x = yourX;
y = yourY;
z = thisComp.layer("Control").effect("Slider")(1).valueAtTime(time - yourDelay);
[x, y, z]This works only when your slider is animated somehow, e.g., via keyframing.
Xinlai Ni
Software Engineer, Google Inc. -
hi xianli,
thanks for your post…that was exactly what I need.
thx
michael
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