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Help with Text Preset
Hi all,
Im using the decoder fade in preset, but want to tweak it, and cant work out how. What I want essentially is that it fades in to 100% quicker than the decoder effect. For example, when I have the range from 0-100 over 1 second, then the decoding is finished as the character is finished fading in. What I want to have is the fade in finishing after 10 frames, but the decoding continuing for the other 15. (I live in PAL land). Hope this makes sense.
And another thing. How do I tweak it so the decoder goes quicker? For instance over a second the number changes 20 times. Can I make it so it changes 50 times over the same period of time?Thanks in advance
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I’m hopeful that I’ve understood your first Q correctly.
You’ll need two Animator properties, one to control Opacity and the other, Chracter Offset.
Select the Word Animator 1 and press the Return key. Change it’s name to AnimatorOpacity. While it is still selected, goto Edit->Duplicate. Select the duplicate Animator and hit the return key and rename it AnimatorCharacterOffset.
Upon duplication of the Animators, AE will only retain the last Animator prperty. In the case for the decoder, it will be Character Offset.
Select the AnimatorOpacity and delete CharacterOffset.
You should now have two Animators, one for Opacity and the other for Character Offset. Each Animator has its own Selector Range. The Selector Range will allow you to complete the Opacity animation independent of Character Offset, which has itw own Selector Range.
Drag the last keyframe for the RangeSelector for Opacity and drag it to the 10th frame on your timeline.
Hopefully, you’ll get th eresult you want.
As for the second Q pertaining to the number of changes Character Offset goes through, just change the default value of 19 to 50. Take note that the speed or the number of offsets are also dependent on the time it takes to go from points A – Z. If there are insufficient frames going from points A – Z, then AE will zip though and drop a few offsets while trying its best to adhere to the max and minimum ranges. Where 0 would be the minimum and 50 the maximum in your example.
HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
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Thats it exactly. Worked a treat.
Thanks for your help!!
Simon
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