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Duplicating 1 character in a word
Hi,
I’m animating the word “What?” to become “Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?”. At the moment the amount of “a”s are not defined nor is the speed at which they appear.
I know I can do this by just changing the source text with keyframes but I’m interested to know if there is there a clever expression that could do this.
Something that selects a character in a word and then perhaps controls the number of duplicates with a slider. This way I could apply easing so the duplicates appear faster and faster.
Cheers
Matt
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For full modularity, use 2 sliders. Character Index and Repetitions.
In the source text write this expression
var sourceText = thisLayer("Text")("Source Text").value;
var charIndex = thisLayer("Effects")("Character Index")("Slider")-1;
var character = sourceText[charIndex];
var repetitions = thisLayer("Effects")("Repetitions")("Slider")+1;
sourceText.slice(0,charIndex)+Array(repetitions).join(character)+sourceText.slice(charIndex+1);Andrei
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Thanks for this Andrei. I will check it out and let you know how I get on.
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Perfect Andrei!!
Thanks for this. Gives me all the control I’m after.
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Ah…….. with the correct value on the character index slider I can then adjust the repetition slider and the “a”s I need appear. However, it won’t animate if I keyframe the slider. The amount of “a”‘s changes when you are on the keyframe but doesn’t animate between keyframes.
Is there anyway to get it to animate so I can go from 1 “a” to many “a”s and adjust the speed curve so they start appearing slowly and speed up.
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Sorted! Needed to use Math.floor() on the slider to round the result to the nearest whole number.
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