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  • Looping an expression

    Posted by Ryan Jones on July 26, 2016 at 3:57 pm

    Greetings all,

    Basically, I have the usual “bounce” expression on a shape layer. So three keyframes; 0, 100 and back to 0. This makes the box go up and then back down with a “bounce” when it hits the last keyframe 0.

    What I’d like is to add the LoopOut expression so that it is always going up/down (with a pause so fourth keyframe for the loopOut) and also includes the bounce. Right now it only bounces on the three keyframes and after that, it’s just up/down with no bounce. Is this even possible?

    Thanks all!

    Ryan Jones replied 9 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Walter Soyka

    July 26, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    You cannot apply two expressions to the same property. I see a couple quick-ish options:

    1) You can rewrite your bounce expression and make it loopable.

    2) You can precomp your shape layer with the bounce animation and loop it via time-remapping.

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  • Ryan Jones

    July 26, 2016 at 5:51 pm

    I figured as much LOL. I keep forgetting AE isn’t C++. I do like option #2. I greatly appreciate your help.

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