Wow, amazing Dan! It works perfectly fine. Thank you so much! I am forever grateful 🙂

Hm, I get “Error: SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token” on row “t = time – inPoint;”.

Okay, I got it working. I added this to the source text:

Speed = 40
StartAt = inPoint
X = text.sourceText;
T = time * Speed – StartAt * Speed;
if (T>0) X.substr(0,T)

And your script to the expression selector for the opacity animator:

spd = 40;
d = textTotal/spd;
t = time – (outPoint – d – thisComp.frameDuration);
i = t*spd;
textIndex-1 >= i ? 0 : 100

Is this…

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Wow, that works fine to make it disappear! Thanks! Can you also help me add something that “types” the text at the inpoint in the same expression?

Thanks for your answer! I forgot to add why I don’t want to use keyframes. The thing is that I am creating an essential graphic (.mogrt) and I want the speed of the animation to be the same independent of the amount of characters.

If I do it that way, each letter will appear very fast for long words, and slow for short words.

Hi! I am trying to achieve a typewriter effect that reveals on the inpoint of the layer, and disappears close to the outpoint. I found this piece of code in another thread here on creativecow, and it’s close to what I want. But not exactly. With this script, the text disappears from the end to the beginning. I want to make it disappear from the… Read more