Blink on to desired opacity

[Walter Soyka]

That’s some old code you’ve got there! It’ll run, but I’ve modernized it a bit below.

The key thing that you want to change are the references to 100 (and 110). That’s what’s setting the opacity to maximum. I’ve changed that out to “value” here instead, which will allow you to set the property itself right in the timeline panel to what you want its default maximum opacity to be.

var blinks = 5; // The number of times to blink while fading in. you can change this and it will recompute for you
var blinkFrames = blinks*2;
var inFrame = timeToFrames(thisLayer.inPoint);
var outFrame = timeToFrames(thisLayer.outPoint);
var currentFrame = timeToFrames(time);
if (currentFrame < (inFrame + blinkFrames)) {
	var deltaFrame = currentFrame - inFrame;
	if (deltaFrame % 2 == 0) { 
		0; 
	} else { 
		linear(deltaFrame,0,blinkFrames,10,value); 
	}
} else if (currentFrame < (outFrame - blinkFrames)) { 
	value; 
} else {
	var deltaFrame = currentFrame - (outFrame - blinkFrames);
	if (deltaFrame % 2 != 0) {
		0;
	} else {
		linear(deltaFrame,0,blinkFrames,value,0);
	}
}

[Frank Lamont]

Thanks for updating that for me!

I do get an error that says:

delta = frame – inFrame; (Error: Syntax error)

I can set the Opacity like you said, it just doesn’t blink.

Thanks,

Frank

[Walter Soyka]

The line “delta = frame – inFrame;” looks like the old code — it should work if you copy and paste mine.

I also had some trouble copying and pasting your code directly. I was thinking that maybe some of the characters were being replaced by typographical equivalents by the COW since it wasn’t wrapped in a preformatted/code block. If you manually retype that line the way it looks, then delete the original line, it should work.