[Andrei Popa]

I tried your expression and didn’t notice any interruption. What do you mean? The line is missing at some point?

If you are talking about the broken lines that appear at the edge of the curves, that is not interruption, it’s just Line Join property of the stroke. Go to the stroke under your path, collapse options and change “Line Join” to “Round Join”

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[Andrei Popa]

Just replace app.project.activeItem with the variable that holds the composition A.

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[Andrei Popa]

If composition F is already in composition A, and composition A is open, you can use this:

app.project.activeItem.layer("F").position.setValue([100,100])

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[Andrei Popa]

I use another method.

app.executeCommand(2771);
app.executeCommand(2771);

This is the id for “Reveal All Modified Properties”. I first select the layer and then run this command twice. Once it shows all modified props and the second time it collapses all properties.

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[Andrei Popa]

The expressions can’t set different fonts for the same layer yet. I personally hope that adobe will soon make this work.

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[Andrei Popa]

It’s not yet possible to set style for a part of the layer. You can only change the style for the entire layer.

If you only try to make your text bold or italic you can add an animator with stroke, respectively skew. But that is about it.

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[Andrei Popa]

Make a file with each value on a single row. If the layer must be empty, leave a blank row.

EG:
Red

Blue

Yellow

Make a text layer. Select it and then run this script:

var myTextProp = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0]("ADBE Text Properties")("ADBE Text Document");
var myFile = File.openDialog("Select your source file");
if(myFile != null&&myFile.open("r")){
var myString = myFile.read();
myFile.close();
}

var arrayOfWords = myString.split('\n');

for(var i = 0; i < arrayOfWords.length;i++){
myTextProp.setValueAtTime(5*i,arrayOfWords[i])
}

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[Andrei Popa]

You can’t have strings like that without + between them. Try this

if (myProp && !altKey) {
var myControl = myEffect + " " + myGroup + " " + "-" + " " + myLayerName;
} else if (!myProp && altKey) {
var myControl = myEffect;
} else if (!myProp && !altKey) {
var myControl = myEffect + " " + "-" + " " + myLayerName;
} else if (myProp && altKey) {
var myControl = myEffect + " " + myGroup;
}


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[Andrei Popa]

I don’t know for a global fix on train of pics. But you can change the first parameter of seedrandom to anything else(something like seedRandom(1, true)). Basically, for each picture that you don’t like the direction, you can change this value and it will generate another.

The train has nothing to do with time, its just that most of the time, wild random is not that beautiful.

You can make it more organized if you want.
One method would be to create a chain of values(about 10-15) and repeat those. Being so many, I don’t think that it would be observable. You could even add an offset that modifies them each cycle, so they don’t repeat.

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If you want to go fully random, try this.

Put them all in middle. Then add these expressions to size, respectively position:


dur = 3;
linear(time,inPoint, inPoint+dur,[0,0], [100,100])



seedRandom(index,true)
dur = 3;
cWidth = thisComp.width;
cHeight = thisComp.height;
rect = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime(time,true);
thisWidth = rect.width;
thisHeight = rect.height;
outSide = Math.round(random());//Here we decide if it goes out vertically or horizontally
x = outSide == 0 ? Math.random() < 0.5 ? cWidth+thisWidth/2 : - thisWidth/2 : random(cWidth);
y = outSide == 1 ? Math.random() < 0.5 ?cHeight+thisHeight/2 : -thisHeight/2 : random(cHeight);
linear(time, inPoint, inPoint+dur,value,[x,y])


Set the dur variable to how much time you want them to travel.

Then set the duration for each layer, in the timeline, equal to what dur variable you chose.
Select all layers, right click, keyframe assistant>distribute layers. Check overlap only if you want them to overlap.
You should now have what you wanted.

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