changing content of composition with sliders

[Dan Ebberts]

What is the expression that you are using?

Dan

[Pingo Brinkloev]

Here. Pretty straight forward I guess.

This is the expression on the slider effect on the master composition.

the slider is controlling a freeze frame using time remap.

I whish I could attach a screendump here.

comp("book").layer("page").effect("Slider Control")("Slider")*0.01

[Dan Ebberts]

I’m still not sure I completely understand what you’re trying to do, but it might be that you need to change your expression to this:

comp(“book”).layer(thisComp.name).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”)*0.01

That’s if you’re creating new copies of the page comp (in the project bin). If you’re just duplicating the comp layer and creating instances, it won’t work.

Dan

[Darby Edelen]

It sounds like you’re using a freeze frame in the child composition to determine the frame being shown in the parent composition. If that’s the case then you’re stuck. What I’d recommend instead is allowing your child composition to play through each frame, apply time-remapping in the parent composition and use your slider expression there.

Each instance of the child composition can be remapped independently this way, where as with the remapping/freeze frame in the child composition you’d need a separate instance for each frame (which doesn’t help you any).

Darby Edelen

[Pingo Brinkloev]

Yeah, I wanted to avoid making copies of the book comp. But this will still save me the trouble of changing all the expressions in case I end up doing it this way. So thanks for that!

[Pingo Brinkloev]

Darby, that’s exactly what I’m trying to do. And yes, I’m stuck. Unfortunately I have an animation of the page flipping, and it’s the “content” of the book I want to change, so to speak. so I can’t just freeze it all. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible, but I might have to split the page into two comps.

[Dan Borufka]

Pingo, why not add another expression control on your book comp to select and animate the index of the layer/page that should be used?

That way, you could animate a slider (let’s call this one “pageIndex”) and integrate that to your expression.

var pageIndex = Math.round(comp("book").effect("pageIndex")("Slider").value);
comp("book").layer(pageIndex).effect("Slider Control")("Slider")*0.01;