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  • wiggle on a certain time.

    Posted by Jun Ishiwata on February 27, 2012 at 10:04 am

    Hello,

    I’ve been looking for wiggle expressions all day yet can’t find the explanation to my problem. I’ve inserted a video that i made in premiere pro and i would like to ad a wiggle on for instance frame 10 to frame 50 but then stop the wiggle. The expression Wiggle(5,50) for instance just wiggles my whole movie. is there a way to change the expression or code so it wiggles on a given frame to a given frame?

    Thank you .

    Dan Ebberts replied 10 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Dan Ebberts

    February 27, 2012 at 6:26 pm

    Probably the easiest way is to just attach the amplitude parameter to a slider which you would keyframe from 0 to 50 and back to 0:

    amp = effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);
    wiggle(5,amp)

    That also lets you ease into the wiggle because if you just turn it on abruptly, the layer will jump.

    Dan

  • Tony Stark

    April 24, 2012 at 3:45 am

    Hi bro,

    I believe this is what you looking for. I used to had the same problem as you but thank to Adobe help now it’s gone.

    https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS22BD9B45-A813-4b13-996D-A4561D108A8Ca.html

    Have a nice day

    timeToStart = 2; [second]
    timeToStop = 4; [second]

    if ((time > timeToStart) && (time < timeToStop)){
    wiggle(3,25);
    }else{
    value;
    }

  • Antonio Dawkins

    February 18, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    Dan!

    It’s been a few years since this post, but this seriously made my day. Thank you so much, and I only wish I knew this years ago. Such a nice, simple expression, but so handy, and can potentially be extrapolated to control so many other expressions!

    Thank you sir! Seriously, I’ve been telling everyone I know trying to find someone who will get as psyched about it as I am.

  • Dan Ebberts

    February 18, 2016 at 11:10 pm

    Glad you found it useful!

    Dan

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