Creative COW | Carter Lilley | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/carterlilley/activity/ Activity feed for Carter Lilley. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:30:14 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 a354d64c09d6a06e7eb1cd511e02dfb9 Carter Lilley replied to the discussion Need to trigger animation any time there is a marker. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/need-to-trigger-animation-any-time-there-is-a-mark/page/2/#post-2437226 Tue, 08 Nov 2022 07:46:43 +0000 Reply to Need to trigger animation any time there is a marker.

Scratch that – you gave me exactly what I needed.

I’ll clean this up and post the full script at some point Julian Chojnacki!

]]> 0a5c3980bc632bfac702fdee2bb94f05 Carter Lilley replied to the discussion Need to trigger animation any time there is a marker. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/need-to-trigger-animation-any-time-there-is-a-mark/page/2/#post-2437225 Tue, 08 Nov 2022 07:40:52 +0000 Reply to Need to trigger animation any time there is a marker.

Thanks, messing around with this now.

Maybe this is sailing way over my head – but how do I derive and pass the time for those indexes? I understand that “marker.key(textindex).time” when subtracted from time will always give me the starting points of identical textindex and marker pairs…which is why I was attempting to offset it by “numWords”…

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]]> f7750dc7c8d189b1262221983a15b4cc Carter Lilley replied to the discussion Need to trigger animation any time there is a marker. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/need-to-trigger-animation-any-time-there-is-a-mark/page/2/#post-2437223 Tue, 08 Nov 2022 04:34:00 +0000 Reply to Need to trigger animation any time there is a marker.

Aaah, but unfortunately I am tying the marker timings to the text index from 0-X on each phrase in this part – marker.key(textindex).time

All I need to do is offset it by the number of words in each phrase every time there’s a new keyframe, but I cant seem to figure out how to properly store and increment that variable, if that makes sense.

Unless…

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]]> 04c572a0a6834ee39274dd14a3b73bfb Carter Lilley replied to the discussion Need to trigger animation any time there is a marker. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/need-to-trigger-animation-any-time-there-is-a-mark/page/2/#post-2437221 Tue, 08 Nov 2022 03:45:15 +0000 Reply to Need to trigger animation any time there is a marker.

Okay, some further refinement here shows me that I just need to add the total number of words from the previous phrase to the textIndex at the begging of each phrase. So let’s say the first phrase has eight words – starting at zero – you’d run through the textIndex normally, and then when the new phrase begins, you would simply add “textIndex+8″…

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]]> 41b2f343669d46d3b9a27a5f042acae2 Carter Lilley replied to the discussion Need to trigger animation any time there is a marker. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/need-to-trigger-animation-any-time-there-is-a-mark/page/2/#post-2437213 Tue, 08 Nov 2022 01:07:48 +0000 Reply to Need to trigger animation any time there is a marker.

Hey all, trying to solve the same exact problem here. The goal: keyframe a text property with new sentences throughout (in my case) a music track. Then, retime each word of each phrase with markers – essentially creating a lyric video generator on one track and applying a flexible text animator to every word of every phrase. Seems extremely…

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