[Andrei Popa]

Do you have After Effects 2019 or later? If yes, go to Project Settings>Expressions and set the Expression Engine to Javascript.

If you do not wish to change your Expression Engine to Javascript(I suggest you do), you can use this expression:


function include(arr, obj) {
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
if (arr[i] == obj) return true;
}
}

exceptions = [2,4,6];
randomSeed=time*thisComp.frameDuration;
result=Math.round(random(10));
while(include(exceptions,result)){
randomSeed+=Math.round(random(100));
result=Math.round(random(10));
}
result


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[Andrei Popa]

This should work.
Replace the hex numbers between quotes with the hex number of your colors.

linear(time,index*5,index*5+10,hexToRgb("FF0000"),hexToRgb("000000"))

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I think is something like this:

style.setFontSize(100).setText("My text");

For more information check https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/expressions-text-properties.html

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I think this will work

exceptions = [2,4,6];
randomSeed=time*thisComp.frameDuration;
result=Math.round(Math.random(10));
while(exceptions.indexOf(result)!=-1){
randomSeed+=Math.round(Math.random(100));
result=Math.round(Math.random(10));
}
result

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I forgot to subtract the over-60 values in the end. This should be the correct way:
function rawToTimecode(number){
var seconds = Math.floor(number);
var minutes = Math.floor(seconds / 60);
var hours = Math.floor(minutes / 60);
var frames = Math.round((number-seconds)/thisComp.frameDuration);
return [hours,minutes%60,seconds%60,frames]
.map(
function(n){
return(n>10) ? n : "0"+n
}
).join(":");
}
var rawTime = thisComp.duration-time;
rawToTimecode(rawTime)

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[Andrei Popa]

This works. You can also remove some values if you would like to not see them.


function rawToTimecode(number) {
var seconds = Math.floor(number);
var minutes = Math.floor(seconds / 60);
var hours = Math.floor(minutes / 60);
var frames = Math.round((number - seconds) / thisComp.frameDuration);
return [hours, minutes, seconds, frames]
.map(
function (n) {
return (n > 10) ? n : "0" + n
}
).join(":");
}
var rawTime = thisComp.duration - time;
rawToTimecode(rawTime)

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Not really sure what you want but this may be a solution; On the second layer add this as sourceText

specificLetter = "L";
stringToSearch = thisComp.layer("HELLO").text.sourceText;
stringToSearch.split(specificLetter).length-1

You can make this case-insensitive(ignore differenced between a and A) like this:

specificLetter = "L";
stringToSearch = thisComp.layer("HELLO").text.sourceText.toUpperCase();
stringToSearch.split(specificLetter.toUpperCase()).length-1

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To make them orbit or change radius, you just have to centralize the data. I added a null as the last layer in that comp and 2 sliders to it: Radius and Rotiation. Modify these 2 in order to change the radius/make the objects orbit. Here are the new expressions added to anchor point and rotation of the layers.

Anchor Point:

var left = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).left;
var myHeight = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).height;
var myWidth = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).width;
var top = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).top;
[left+myWidth/2-thisComp.layer("Center").effect("Radius")("Slider"),myHeight/2+top]

Rotation:
360/(thisComp.numLayers-1)*index+thisComp.layer("Center").effect("Rotation")("Slider")

Also, here is a link to my project in case you want to check it out. https://www.dropbox.com/s/n4dsozkm5imxein/Circle%20payers.aep?dl=0

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To get more of the matchNames, use rd_gimmePropPath on those properties, after you manually added them.

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Most of the properties:

var anim = app.project.activeItem.layer(1).Text.Animators.addProperty("ADBE Text Animator");

//add range selector
anim("ADBE Text Selectors").addProperty("ADBE Text Selector");

var animProperties = anim("ADBE Text Animator Properties");

//Add properties

//andchorPoint
animProperties.addProperty("ADBE Text Anchor Point 3D");

//position
animProperties.addProperty("ADBE Text Position 3D");

//scale
animProperties.addProperty("ADBE Text Scale 3D");

//skew
animProperties.addProperty("ADBE Text Skew");

//skew axis
animProperties.addProperty("ADBE Text Skew Axis");

//rotation
animProperties.addProperty("ADBE Text Rotation");

//Opacity
animProperties.addProperty("ADBE Text Opacity");


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