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  • Tweaking existing expression

    Posted by Avrohom Kohn on October 15, 2007 at 2:50 pm

    I have this expression from one of AE’s animation presets, but I’d like to tweak it:
    ______________________
    rawAmount = effect(“Scale Bounce – random”)(“Chance of Bouncing”);
    compareAmount = (50-rawAmount) / 50;
    nervousness = effect(“Scale Bounce – random”)(“Bounce Nervousness”) / 20;
    targetScale = effect(“Scale Bounce – random”)(“Target Scale Change”);
    noiseResult = noise(time * nervousness);
    linear(noiseResult, compareAmount, 1, 100, targetScale)
    _______________________

    Right now, it just randomly scales my text layer. What I want to change is: instead of having regular scaling, I’d like it to be abrupt, where with regular keyframes I would say “toggle hold keyframes” I’d like to do it to this expression somehow, since there are no actual keyframes.

    thanks.

    A.P.
    TAMotion

    Dan Ebberts
    replied 18 years, 6 months ago
    3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Mike Clasby

    October 15, 2007 at 7:38 pm

    Do you know the name of the text preset? It looks like it has several sliders for variables for the expression but I con/t locate it to see if I can hack it?

  • Dan Ebberts

    October 15, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    How often do you want it to freeze? Is it periodic? If so, it might be as simple as adding something like this to the top of the expression:

    posterizeTime(3);

    Dan

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