Chaos to in sync

[Brendon Murphy]

You could split each letter out onto a separate text layer, and then add a wiggle expression to position or rotation. Use a slider control to animate the wiggle. Like this:

-Add a slider effect to each letter and name it “Speed”.

-Add a second slider named “Amount”

-alt-click the rotation property for each letter. Past in the following expression:

wiggle(effect("Speed")("Slider"),effect("Amount")("Slider"));

Now you can set the speed and amount of wiggle, and use the Amount slider to eventually animate it back to 0.

[Jack Hilkewich]

Thanks! Is there a way to keep them moving or scaling but all doing the exact same thing at the end. I was hoping there would be a way to have them move smoothly from each individually being chaotic into all doing the same motion or scale rhythm. rather than me having to split the layers and try and to the transition through key framing I was hoping that there would be a way through an expression.

Thanks again!

[Brendon Murphy]

Sure – parent the separate layers to a null object. Your “in-sync” animation should be done on the null, affecting all letters together. Then use those wiggle expressions to do the chaos part.

[Jack Hilkewich]

Ahh, I get it. Thanks for the help!