Converting speed into pace and expressing it correctly

[Xavier Gomez]

Once you get your pace as decimal number in min/km, to decompose it in min:sec, you can do

min = Math.floor(pace);
sec = (pace-min)*60;

This gives the seconds part as a decimal number.
If you want a plain integer for the seconds, replace the second line by:

sec = Math.round((pace-min)*60);

Xavier

[Chris Craig]

Thanks Xavier for your reply.

Would this be the full expression or just the decimal to seconds? I have pasted what you have given me, but as Im rusty with expressions, Im not sure how to write the entire expression.

Thanks a lot

[Xavier Gomez]

Ah ok, i started where you had troubles.
Full expression:

// x : input speed (unit distance/hour)
x = 5.67;
// pace in min / unit distance
pace = 60/x;
// decompose min:sec
min = Math.floor(pace);
sec = Math.round((pace-min)*60);
if (sec===60){sec=0; ++min;};

// display text :
“pace : ” + min + ” minutes ” + sec + ” seconds per unit distance”;

[Chris Craig]

Thank you so much Xavier.

I have tried this and am coming across a slight issue. The Pace value that this expression is converting from, is a random expression on a separate layer. I thought i would be able to pick whip the “source text” of this layer and plug it in to your expression, but it appears that I can not not do that.

Would you know how i can get the expressed value of another layer and plug it into your expression?

Thanks again for your help in this.

[Xavier Gomez]

You’d have to parse the speed text and extract the number, the way to do it depends on how the text looks like.

I think it would be a bit easier if the speed value was carried by a slider (with your random expression on it), and then collected (=pickwhipped) by both text layers (the speed and the pace one).

In the speed text:

x = effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”).value;
“Speed : ” + x + “km/h”;

And in the pace text, the expression from the previous post with x taking the slider value.

Xavier