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Help with CSV Text list
Hi.
I have a csv file with one row of data. There are 1400 words and I am wanting After Effects to show one word at a time per frame. I am new to expressions and have been searching to see if there is a way to do this. I have tried:
footage(“test.csv”).dataValue([0, timeToFrames(time)+1])It is giving me an error saying invalid node index
Yesterday I had it scrolling through the data but updated the csv file and can’t seem to work out what I have done wrong.
Do I need a slider to control it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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4 Replies
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Hello, try this:
max = thisComp.layer('test.csv')('Data')('Outline').numProperties -1;
footage('test.csv').dataValue([Math.min(timeToFrames(time),max), 0]);
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Thank you.
That brings up my first data point but isn’t cycling through, just stays on the first line of text. I’m hoping that text can cycle through one word at a time replacing the previous word. I have 1441 rows in the csv document. Sorry about the newbie questions. -
OK for multiple rows, try this:
perRow = thisComp.layer('test.csv')('Data')('Outline').numProperties;
numOfRows = thisComp.layer('test.csv')('Data')('Number of Rows');
if (timeToFrames(time) < perRow * numOfRows) {
row = Math.min(Math.floor(timeToFrames(time) / perRow), numOfRows - 1);
col = timeToFrames(time) % perRow;
footage('test.csv').dataValue([col, row]);
} else {
'finished'
}
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Thank you,
I’ll give that a go. Appreciate your help!
Cheers
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