timeRemap play

[Mirza Kadic]

Worked like a charm! Thank you so much Dan!!!

[Flo Stanger]

Wow Dan! This is such a helpful Expression for triggering Time Remap.

I am trying to slightly modify it, so I can also specify a second threshold (slider-driven) that will set the time remap of the pre comp to a different time.

But all my attempts so far failed. To understand what I am trying to solve:

I am visualising the development of clubs/bars within the last century on a map. The information of each of the ~300 clubs/bars is loaded into AE via an .csv file (Location, Opening Year, Closing Year), each one being a (identical) pre comp.

So when the years-slider (starting 1900 till 2022 at the end) reaches the opening year of a club, this pre comp does start the animation (Opening Animation). Nice!

How can I add a second “treshhold” (Closing Year), that will make the pre comp continue playing at a later point in time (Closing Animation)?

Thx so much for any ideas and your awesome support, community.

open = 1965;

close = 2012;

year = thisComp.layer(„controller“).effect(„year“)(„Slider”);

check = false;

frame = Math.round(time / thisComp.frameDuration);

while (true){

t = frame * thisComp.frameDuration;

if (check){

if (year.valueAtTime(t) < open){

frame++;

break;

}

}else if (year.valueAtTime(t) >= open){

check = true;

}

if (frame == 0){

break;

}

frame–

}

if (! check){

t = 0;

}else{

t = time – frame * thisComp.frameDuration;

}

[Dan Ebberts]

It will probably look something like this (assumes that opening animation starts at time = 0 and closing animation starts at time = 5):

open = 1965;
close = 2012;
closeAnimStart = 5;
year = thisComp.layer("controller").effect("year")("Slider");
frame = timeToFrames(time);
t = time;
if (year >= close){
  while (year.valueAtTime(t) >= close){
    frame--;
    t = framesToTime(frame);
  }
  t += thisComp.frameDuration;
  closeAnimStart + time - t;
}else if (year >= open){
  while (year.valueAtTime(t) >= open){
    frame--;
    t = framesToTime(frame);
  }
  t += thisComp.frameDuration;
  time - t;
}else{
  0;
}

[Flo Stanger]

Wooooow. Thanks you so much for your quick support! That’s amazing.

For a moment it seemed to work, but now it freezes AE and produces a “Timeout while waiting for the engine” on the last

t = framesToTime(frame)

I don’t fully understand how this code is working yet, to be honest 🙂

So very carefulguess: Could it help to give the last while() a try()/Catch error around?