Expression to smooth a crawl text (horizontal)?

[David Crews]

I’m not someone who uses expressions very much, so I may be asking something simple. I’m trying to animate a text layer horizontally (a crawl vs. a vertical roll). Due, I believe, to the interpolation of frame rate vs. pixels moved, there is judder / hesitations in the resulting movement.
Increasing my comp’s frame rate from 29.97 to 59.94 helped most of it, but I was hoping to find an expression that forces the crawl to match a whole number on the pixel movement.
There’s a somewhat circulated expression that does this for rolls (vertical, like credits: See the expression I linked)

I’m wondering if there is a parameter in it somewhere telling it to operate on the y axis — a parameter that could be changed to make it work on the x axis instead? or some other expression that does this job, but on the x axis?

Appreciate any insights. Thanks!

speedPxPerFrame = 2;
currentFrame = (time - inPoint)/thisComp.frameDuration;

value - [0, currentFrame*speedPxPerFrame]

David

David P. Crews
CrewsCreative
Post Production – Motion Graphics – Original Music
512.663.9669
https://www.CrewsCreative.com
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[Andrei Popa]

If what you want is to change this to modify x instead of y, try this

speedPxPerFrame = 2;
currentFrame = (time - inPoint)/thisComp.frameDuration;

value - [currentFrame*speedPxPerFrame,0]

If you want to change directions, change the sign in the last line

speedPxPerFrame = 2;
currentFrame = (time - inPoint)/thisComp.frameDuration;

value + [0, currentFrame*speedPxPerFrame]

Andrei
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[David Crews]

Thanks, Andrei! That’s exactly the info I wanted.
It works to make the move but, unfortunately, it did not solve my judder/random hesitations problem. I’ll have to do some further research and tests to find out what’s causing that.

David

David P. Crews
CrewsCreative
Post Production – Motion Graphics – Original Music
512.663.9669
https://www.CrewsCreative.com
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