• Adobe After Effects

  Element 3D & Text Expressions

  Posted by Anifsa Vladimir on January 2, 2014 at 4:23 am

  Hello, I was having an issue with an animated text countdown (using an expression) and Element 3D.

  I setup a text layer, type CD to mark the layer so i know it is the countdown layer.
  Then I apple the expression to the text.
  After, I set up E3D on a solid, link the layer with custom text layer, and extrude so that I can get a nice look and have more customization.

  However, when I play the countdown back, the text jumps a little. It only does it with E3D extruding it and doesn’t jump if i just use the regular 2d text layer.

  Any suggestions?

  This is the expression code:
  offset = 0;
i = inPoint + offset; //the in point of the layer
dur = 10; //the duration of the countdown in minutes
dur *= 60; //the duration of the countdown in seconds

  seconds = Math.max(dur - Math.max((time - i), 0),0); //the countdown time in total seconds
  minutes = Math.floor(seconds / 60); //the countdown time in minutes
  seconds = Math.floor(seconds - (minutes * 60)); //the countdown time in seconds (minus minutes)

  if(seconds < 10) seconds = '0' + seconds; //add an additional '0' in front of single digit seconds

  minutes + ':' + seconds
(Supplied by a nice man from CC, Thank you!)

  Anifsa Vladimir replied 12 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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