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Simple Expressions are KILLING ME!
Hello Cow,
Here’s an easy one for you I’m sure, but for some reason not a single online tutorial actually works to help me on this one. I’m using AFX 6.5 Pro, and I’m trying to use the loop expression to loop some keys. I’ve been trying to use both loopIn(“cycle”, X) and loopOut(“cycle”, X). When I use loopIn, nothing happens, even if I set X=0. When I use loopOut, AFX cycles the whole keyframe animation for the layer, no matter what the value of X is set to. The same thing happens when using “pingpong” on loopOut.
Trying to figure this out, I’ve set up a very simple comp with a 100×100 yellow solid moving across the top of a 60 frame 500×500 comp from the Left corner to Right for 10 frames, and then down from Top to Bottom once the yellow solid reaches the top right corner, which also takes 10 frames. I have Position keys set for the yellow solid at frame 0, frame 10, and frame 20 (to achieve the respective movement above), and an Expression:Position — loopOut(“cycle”, 11); — Obviously, I’m tring to get the vertical movement of the yellow solid to loop, after it moves across the top of the comp, but the whole 21 frames of animation loops.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
-Ben
Ben Insler
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4 Replies
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Try this:
loopOut(“cycle”,1);
Dan
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Honestly…I’m still laughing out loud at myself… the loop expressions cycle over next or previous key, not frames… right?
Thanks Dan.
Ben Insler
Editor
Telemark Films -
Yes, keyframe segments. There’s also a flavor where you can specify time in seconds – loopOutDur() I think.
Dan
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sweet!
thanks.
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