Looping Source Text held keyframes

[Kevin Camp]

that’s interesting… i’ve never tried to loop source text keyframes (or hold keyframes, for that matter), but you’d think it would work like any other keyframes….

this does seem to work, but you’ll need to add another ‘dummy’ keyframe as the last keyframe:

valueAtTime(time%key(numKeys).time)

it assumes you want to loop all keyframes, but to have the your current last text value be included, you’ll need to add a dummy keyframe at the point where you want it to start to loop.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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[Davi Herold]

Ok, so I know this is an old post, but this occured to me only recently, and I would like to leave a comment in here just in case someone else gets as stuck as me again.

Short answer, you can’t do that.

“You can use keyframe-looping methods to repeat a series of keyframes. You can use these methods on most properties. Exceptions include properties that can’t be expressed by simple numeric values in the Timeline panel, such as the Source Text property, path shape properties, and the Histogram property for the Levels effect.”

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/expression-language-reference.html

Sorry, but as of yet, I have not found a work-around.

Cheers,
Davi.

[Jacek Fischer]

I know it’s terrible archeology 😉 but if someone had a similar problem – you can use a text box with many lines and set keyframes to position and thus jump between specific lines – a solution known from websites as a sprite sheet.