Ah, I think I understand. Not sure what the term is but most properties seem to start counting at 0. Keyframes start at 1?

I’ll have a closer look thanks. Using k– with nearestKey was a breakthrough for me 🙂 Finally got over that hurdle!

Hello, I’ve got this expression to display the layer’s marker comments. The expression works most of the time, and other times it works but displays an error message. I get a message saying the property has no keyframe(s).
What can I do to make it consistently work?

s = thisComp.layer(“Notes”);
v = “”; // variable for comment output
k =1; // here…

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Yeah, that’s what I’m looking to achieve!!
I downloaded the project file, and at first glance I don’t understand it!!
Gonna have a look and try figure out how it works
Thank you very much!!

Hi and thanks for taking your time to reply!
I was thinking of the Character Offset function that randomises the characters. I imagine it would take xPresso to do achieve that

Hello, I’ve googled but no luck.

I want to offset text values just like you can do in After Effects, then use a linear field to reveal the final text.

I assume you can do this with xpresso but my knowledge is quite limited.

Could anyone offer some pointers?

that worked once..
I’m back to hearing the audio cut off..
The part I’m lworking with right now, the voice says “sounds good, right?”
And in my previews I get to hear “sounds good”..

Man, I’m so sick of this. First day working on my new rig with a new Intel i9 and I can’t even get proper playback.

That’s an interesting challenge…
I’m thinking you might be able to use a particle system to emit from one of your layers with 0 speed. Particular would do that. Not sure about particle world 2.

For me It would take a bit of experimentation to get there.
Just in case, if you have an evolution parameter using the posterizeTime expression will give…

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Does “Modify Alpha” under the Modify section help?
Maybe a bit of this could help too
https://aescripts.com/fxaa/

Just got a new voice over and am adjusting the animation to it. But every time I do a ram preview the first playback will have a .5 second offset, which is VERY irritating
Sometimes it will playback wrongly and catch up after a second or so..
It usually plays back correctly the second time, but having to do everything twice is quite annoying.

Any…

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If I don’t misunderstand you completely, shouldn’t that be easy to achieve with the “create nulls from path” script, and wouldn’t require any expressions at all?

In that case, can’t you just put an echo effect over the image being sampled, and that way link the resulting fade out to the intesity of the light bulb?

What are you using to trigger the animation?

I have thispreset of an expression that you could modify to get you started.. using a checkbox to start timeRemap advancing..
With a little bit of tweaking you could get it to turn off starting at a different timecode I suppose.
Untill someone comes up with a better (complete) solution

s =…

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I’m wondering if there could be Video Copilot’s “Sure Target” behind this.

But then I’m thiking it might not be all that much work either. Obviously one does not make a 3 minute video in a day so there’s time to polish the moves.
Parent the camera to Null.. and move it to the centre of each new Layer, rotating the null for interesting angles.
A bit…

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I have a bit of a dificulty understading what you are trying to achieve. Do you have any reference images, WIP, sketches?

I wonder if CC Sphere would be the right approach..

“At worst” you could use the “omino snake” plugin. It’s free, but won’t be vector sharp, but it would be quick

“Pt Effects Search” Script..
Seems maybe a bit pricey for what it does though.

Works like a charm!!

I was butchering together the two expressions like Frankenstein and got a “time out while waiting for engine” as a monstrous result.
Your solution works perfectly. Thank you so much!!

There’s probably info out there on this, but I’m too stressed to find it!!

The idea is to trigger timeRemap when a certain threshold is passed.

I figure I could use Dan Ebberts “Triggering Expression With Audio” or Beat Counter; Say that layer 5 plays once the Threshold has been passed the 5th time…

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So that ended up working for you in the end?

A completely different method, that Harry Frank did, (I believe) was just a line, displace it with greyscale gradients distoring the line with Displacement Maps and then using Polar Cordinates to make it a circle.
Probably would be a lot slower though.

No idea if you can attach videos. Have not been…

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I found I achieved a similar result with a shape layer:

Make two circles. Top copy I set to 2 points larger than the bottom one.
The bottom one I added a Wiggle Paths. Size 76, Details 86, Smooth Points, 0 frequency (For example..).
And below all that Merge Paths in Add mode.
Lastly a Stroke…

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Yeah, nebula is taking some time to be released.
I would not need it for my line of work.. or maybe I could..hmmm
but it looked so good it’s a must have 🙂

So proud to have meet the man during his “Europe Tour”.

If that doesn’t work. How about trying with Trapcode Form?

What I usually do, copy the mask change the size of the solid, and paste it again. A circular mask will remain circular, and not turn into an elipse, like if you would have resized the old solid..
It’s ok if you only have a few layers, but if you have lots.. it’s no the best.

Alternatively, you could use the old solid as a track matte for the new…

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