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Problem with Dan Ebbert’s Marker Animation Expression
First Post… and I start it off with a “Help” shout. So thanks in advance, everybody!
I am trying to get Dan Ebbert’s marker script to work with a fake mouse cursor.
https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/marker-sync.htmlI’ve got the following setup:
1st layer: “action” null with the markers
2nd layer: keyframes with interpolation off “arrow” transparency 100 / “hover” transparency 0
2nd layer: keyframes with interpolation off “arrow” transparency 0 / “hover” transparency 100 / “click” a small keyframes scale animationI works fine when I call the markers. But if I call the arrow marker and I let it rest over 2 seconds, the transparency switch at 0:02:00 is shown.
But after that it works fine. The third marker is not accidentally triggered. I’m working with CS5.5 and didn’t make any changes to the script.What do I need to do that the animation always stops at 0 when no marker is called?
Anyone who can help me out? Any help is much appreciated! Thank you everyone!
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6 Replies
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I think the expression is set up to hold the last value if it runs into the next marker. Is it not doing that, or is that not what you want? One thing you could try is spreading the animation (and markers) out enough so that you never run into the next marker.
Dan
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Dan, the man himself! Thank you for the quick response!
I do want that the animation stops after each call.
Spreading it would surely solve it. 🙂 it’s just weird that it continues after “arrow” but doesn’t continue further after “hover” maybe I could try setting another blank marker or something like that in between. And as it seems it wasn’t doing what it should i immediately thought it needed different solving 🙂
If not of course I’ll just spread it out.
Thanks!!!
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Any way you could post a project file that demonstrates the problem?
Dan
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Sure. I’ll try to attach it.
I found one thing that works: if I just insert another marker with any name it doesn’t switch. but if I call the arrow again, it switches. So it needs the stop to work. -
Thanks for posting that. A couple of things–one is that your Hover keyframes occur one frame before the Hover marker. But there does indeed seem to be a problem with the expression. Try changing the longest line to this:
tMax = action.marker.key(actMarker.index + 1).time – actMarker.time – thisComp.frameDuration;
Dan
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Awesome! That did it ! Thank you so much, Dan! I’ll try to understand what happened tomorrow – too late for my brain right now. 🙂
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