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Time remap with a Slider?
I’m interested in finding a way to manipulate the playback speed of a clip and have it be controlled by a slider.
I have a waveform that I have converted into keyframes, and I have a linear value expression on the slider to change the values to whatever I need. However I can’t parent any time remapping control to a slider as it’s based off timecode and not a value
The desired effect would be something like this:
when the slider’s value is 100, the clip plays at 100% of normal speed
when the slider’s value is 0, the clip is frozenSimple in theory, but I can’t find a simple way to execute it.
I’ve only been using expression for a short time, and I know very little about JavaScript, maybe I could be using some sort of equation?
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It’s not as simple as it seems. This should work for a slider with linear keyframes:
spd = effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
n = spd.numKeys;
if (n > 0 && spd.key(1).time < time){
accum = spd.key(1).value*(spd.key(1).time - inPoint);
for (i = 2; i <= n; i++){
if (spd.key(i).time > time) break;
k1 = spd.key(i-1);
k2 = spd.key(i);
v2 = spd.valueAtTime(k2.time-.001);
accum += (k1.value + v2)*(k2.time - k1.time)/2;
}
accum += (spd.value + spd.key(i-1).value)*(time - spd.key(i-1).time)/2;
}else{
accum = spd.value*(time - inPoint);
}
accum/100
You’ll have to change the first line to get it attached to your slider.
More info here:
https://www.motionscript.com/articles/speed-control.html#other-applications
Dan
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what would you add that expression too? a slider that you add to the clip? or on the time remapping effect itself?
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time remapping
Dan
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works perfectly, thank you! I’ll throw a link to the completed video on this thread when done, though that won’t be for a while ha
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This’s awesome! Thanks for sharing!
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I’m wondering if there’s a way to divide the pre comp that has time remapping effect in 3. Let me explain: i have a lower third animation, and there’s an animation in, animation out and an animation in the whole scene. If i apply the script above and set a slower velocity it will make the whole animation slow. But the animation in and animation out should NOT be affected, just the animation in the middle.
Here’s a gif of the animation: https://media.giphy.com/media/l0Iyh1bcst7iEjSSI/giphy.gif
The “cube in” and “cube out” should have the same time and just the middle of animation should be longer, making this animation slower (as i stretched the duration).
Can anybody help me?
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