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  • Expression created with pickwhip not working?

    Posted by Grant Muir on May 4, 2020 at 6:04 am

    Not sure what I’m doing wrong here.

    So I have a text layer dynamically generating a 5min count down. I am then trying to use Hacker text (Red Giant Universe) with the Text Target CUSTOM pickwhipped from the Source Text of the text layer.

    I have tried inputting the expression to generate the 5min count down directly into the Text Target Custom and get this error.

    Can anyone help??

    Chris Scalzo replied 2 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Dan Ebberts

    May 4, 2020 at 1:58 pm

    That property has a custom data type so I’m guessing you can’t link it anything except maybe the same parameter from another instance of that effect.

    Dan

  • Grant Muir

    May 4, 2020 at 11:36 pm

    OK thanks.

    Guess I’ll have to find another way to skin that cat 🙁

  • Chris Scalzo

    August 9, 2023 at 2:11 pm

    I know it is years later, but I am dealing with this same issue right now. No idea why they couldn’t just use text and change the data type afterwards. 😞

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