text field changes every frame

[Cassius Marques]

Hey Andrew…

Maybe you can paste everything in a single text layer, then use
https://aescripts.com/decomposetext/ to break it in layers. Trim them to 1 frame long and use after’s build in “sequence layers” command to make them work with particular later on.

Hope this helps.

[Kevin Camp]

an expression can parse out a text layer’s source text pretty easily, you just need to decide on a character to use to ‘split’ the source text. this could be any thing you want, but a space or a linefeed (hard carriage return) would be my suggestion.

here’s an expression i used to split source text at the linefeed (‘\r’ is the ‘return’ character).

TextArray = text.sourceText.split(‘\r’);
ArrayIndex = timeToFrames()%TextArray.length;
TextArray[ArrayIndex];

my source text was just a list of names that i copy/pasted from an email into the text layer. the expression creates an array with each line being a separate item in the array. then with each frame it changes the text to be the next item of the array.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Andrew Ibarra]

Perfect! thanks!