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Chris Taylor started the discussion Drop Down Menu in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:07:13 +0000

Hello,

I have a dropdown menu expression set up in After Effects. I was tasked with creating a daily countdown to an event.

The DDM controls the opacity of 7 different comps in a separate layer.

At the moment I am having to go to the expression controls, switch to a different number and render.

I wanted to know if there was a script that I could run…

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 07:59:35 +0000

Yep that worked perfectly

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 17:09:14 +0000

Hi all,

I am trying to combine several text-specific expressions, but I can only get 1 to work.

Depending on the layout, the 2nd one will always override the first.

I have tried the if/else expression and the substring, but none seem to work together.

The first expression is a character limit.

The second is a “source text style”, driven by sliders and…