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Activity Forums Adobe After Effects Expression: How to get value from Source Text and assign to keyframes?

  • Graham Quince

    June 1, 2021 at 7:19 pm

    The Text is a String, and the position values need a number. Fortunately AE uses Javascript, so you can use parseInt() to convert the text to a number:

    temp = parseInt(thisComp.layer("control").text.sourceText);

    [temp, temp]

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