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Timecode Expression
Just because someone has asked a question and it’s made me think.
How can you use an expression on time use the timecode to trigger.
eg
If (time < 2) 100 else 0;
if I do frames this also works
if (time < framesToTime(65)) 100 else 0;
But how can you use the timecode to do the same
if (time < timeToTimecode(00:00:02:00)) 100 else 0;
This doesn’t work and I can’t fathom how to do it another way. Surely if it works for time and frames. It can do timecode.
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2 Replies
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isn’t timecode technically a string? You would need a function timecodeToTime(t), which after effects doesn’t have, to get it to be comparable.
To build the function you you would need to parse out the separate elements of the timecode and combine them appropriately, e.g.:
t = 00:00:02:00;
var f = 0;
for(i=0; i<4; i++){
d = t.split(“:”)[i];
try{d = d.split(“:”)[0]}catch(e){};
f += parseInt(d);
if(i<2) f*=60;
if(i==2)f*=(1/thisComp.frameDuration);
} framesToTime(f)Alex Printz
Mograph Designer -
Cheers Alex,
I would never have thought of doing that.
I did get an error back because the timecode wasn’t in “”, but then it worked perfectly
t = “00:00:02:00”;
var f = 0;
for(i=0; i<4; i++){
d = t.split(“:”)[i];
try{d = d.split(“:”)[0]}catch(e){};
f += parseInt(d);
if(i<2) f*=60;
if(i==2)f*=(1/thisComp.frameDuration);
}if(time < framesToTime(f)){
100
}else{
0
};
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