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How do I stop an animation preset after a certain number of times?
Hello there
Firstly, huge apologies because I am extremely new to AE and teaching myself!
I am using CS3 and have added the AE text animation preset Broadway to some text but I would like it to stop animating after it has rippled through the text a few times, say 10 times.
I don’t understand the coding in the expression to be able to control it there.
f=effect(1)(1);
div = Math.abs(Math.sin(2 * textIndex/textTotal – time*f)*100);
result = 0;if (div) {
result = 300/div – 3;
}I split the layer at the point where I would like the preset to stop animating but I am not sure how to subsequently then take the preset out of the split layer because if I remove parts of it I break the look of the original text!
Any wisdom and insight would be gratefully received! Many thanks!
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2 Replies
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My AE machine is busy at the moment or I’d test this, but I wonder if one way to do it would be to keyframe a slider (Effect>Expression Controls>Slider) from 100 to 0 and replace the 100 part of the expression with the value of the slider.
I’m not sure though as expressions aren’t my thing.
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Thanks for your suggestion and for your tips on getting started with AE.
In the end, I split the layer at the point in the time line where i didn’t need the animation any more and then selected ‘remove all text animators’ from the menu on the new split layer … seems to work!
I love your AE reel by the way 🙂
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