How do I stop an animation preset after a certain number of times?

[Richard Harrington]

Select layer.

Press U to see user added keyframes

Look for what properties are animated. Repeat value on last keyframe and adjust position as needed

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: From Still to Motion, Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques

[Darby Edelen]

Hi Rosaleen,

I’m not familiar with the text preset you mentioned, and unfortunately they seem to have changed the way that preset works in future versions of AE.

I think, though, that you can make this change to the expression “result” variable:


f=effect(1)(1);
div = Math.abs(Math.sin(2 * textIndex/textTotal - time*f)*100);
result = 0;

if (div) {
result = (value * 3)/div - 3;
}


Then keyframe the “Amount” property associated with the Expression Selector from 100% to 0%. At 0% the text will be in its normal (unselected, unflashy) state.

If, however, you want the animation to just stop, and keep the relative brightness of the letters when it does, then it’s a bit different:


t = Math.min(time, marker.key(1).time);
f=effect(1)(1);
div = Math.abs(Math.sin(2 * textIndex/textTotal - t*f)*100);
result = 0;

if (div) {
result = 300/div - 3;
}


The first line I’ve added above, and the ‘t’ variable replacing ‘time’ in the ‘div’ variable, should cause the animation to stop (abruptly) at the first layer marker on the text layer.

Darby Edelen