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Benjamin Thompson started the discussion Position based on number of text lines. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Thu, 13 May 2021 01:10:26 +0000

I’m revisiting an old project where I used sourceRectAtTime and a null with point controls to move the position of a text layer, depending on number of layers. I’d like to be able to do it with just an expression on the text layer itself, and be more procedural. It does seem like a Pins and Boxes should do it, but I imagine it can be done with an…

Benjamin Thompson started the discussion Animating position with fixed values and irregular intervals. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:35:18 +0000

Animating position with fixed values and irregular intervals.

I’ve been using Dan’s solution (from an old post) on a project but I’m struggling on how to make it have irregular intervals, without jumping every frame and always moving up on Y.

Any ideas?

moveTime = .3;
holdTime = 4.7;
delta = [0,-5];

seg = Math.floor(time/(moveTime+holdTime));
t = time % (moveTime+holdTime);
value + delta*seg +…