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  • Posted by James Simpson on November 3, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    Hi there, NEWBIE EXPRESSION USER ALERT!!!
    Thank you for your patience in advance.
    So I have a poem in vector/ai form and want to loop this so that it scrolls vertically over and over again.
    I’ve searched this forum and found what I think is the answer but I don’t know how to apply the answer!?!

    Dan Ebberts the genius of all expressions suggested this on a previous post:

    spd = 1.0; //scroll speed (pixels per second)

    [width,height]/2 + [0,time*spd]

    All help would be really, really appreciated.

    Thanks, Jim

    spd = 1.0; //scroll speed (pixels per second)

    [width,height]/2 + [0,time*spd]

    Dan Ebberts replied 14 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Dan Ebberts

    November 4, 2011 at 3:12 am

    If the entire poem fits on the screen, you could add the Offset effect to the text layer, and use an expression like this for the Shift Center To parameter:

    spd = -50.0; //scroll speed (pixels per second)
    value + [0,time*spd]

    If the poem is too long to fit on the screen, it gets a little more complicated.

    Dan

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