[Anders Hattne]

You’d have to change this around.. but could something like this work for you?

title =thisComp.layer("txt").sourceRectAtTime();
k1 =thisComp.layer("txt").transform.scale.key(1);
k2 =thisComp.layer("txt").transform.scale.key(2);

paddingX= linear(thisComp.layer("txt").transform.scale[0], k1[0], k2[0], 0, 26);
paddingY= linear(thisComp.layer("txt").transform.scale[1], k1[1], k2[1], 0, 45);

[title.width + paddingX, title.height + paddingY]


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[Anders Hattne]

Holy schmoly!
Thank you very much – those are some interesting solutions!!

Gonna have a look at this and study the techniques!!

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[Anders Hattne]

Solved!
For now increasing the minimum time seems to have done the trick!!

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[Anders Hattne]

interesting proposition!
I’ll take a look at that..

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[Anders Hattne]

It seems you have arrived at a valid solution, duplicating comps.
May I recommend a script which has helped out with complex compositions: “True Comp duplicator”

Duplicates compositions, its containing precomps and updates containing expressions!

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[Anders Hattne]

I have a bit of a problem understanding. But couldn’t you add an expression to the opacity?

Put a control layer with a checkbox control or just link the it’s opacity? Inverting the opacity for layers that should be seen in Off mode?
…or is it more complicated than that

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[Anders Hattne]

Amazing!!

I have a hard time understanging the “nearestKey” function but I guess I can figure out why this works.

Brilliant!

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[Anders Hattne]

very late answer, but someone might find my current work around helpful.

What I did was one ease after the other!
Initially I was going to “ease” from one position to another. Instead i moved that into another ease:

easeVal = easeOut(time, inPoint, inPoint + transition, 0,100);
easeOut(easeVal , 0, 100, pos1, pos2)

You don’t have the control I’d like to have, but the easeOut curve gets more.. “curved”!

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[Anders Hattne]

Well you’re in luck since the example your client sent you is a tutorial of Andrew Kramer from videocopilot.net.
And since he tends to supply his project files, you’ll have your work done in no time!!
Here you go, procedural crumble:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/procedural_crumble/

The tutorial you provided has some nice trailing sand in the end, I might take a look at that later!
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[Anders Hattne]

This is far from a complete answer, something I did a while ago to practise. Maybe you can modify it to make it work for you.
Usually when I don’t understand what values my variables have I put the expression in a text layer to see what’s going on!

…or maybe someone will give you a better answer later!
win=2;
out=8;
rise=1;

a=100;

if (time >win && time <= out ){
a=ease(time,win, win+rise, 0 ,a);
wiggle(1, a);
}

else if (time > out ) {
a=ease(time, out, out+rise, a ,0)
wiggle(1, a)
}

else
transform.position

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