[Dan Ebberts]

So if your text is in a text layer named “Text” in a comp named “Main” and your letter stacks are layers named “A”, “B”, “C”, etc in comps named “Letter_0”, “Letter_1”, etc., then you would apply an opacity expression like this to each letter layer:


myIdx = parseInt(thisComp.name.split("_")[1],10);
txt = comp("Main").layer("Text").text.sourceText.value;
if (myIdx < txt.length){
txt[myIdx] == name ? 100 : 0;
}else
0


Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

You have to give it a result when the frame number isn’t divisible by 3, like this:


if ((timeToFrames() % 3) == 0) {
100*random(1)
}else
value


[Dan Ebberts]

Sorry, I don’t notice you had the expression applied to a range selector. I assumed the text was coming from the markers, so that expression is for the Source Text property.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

It looks like maybe you took several unrelated expressions and mooshed them together somehow. In any case, this should give you one basic way to sync the text to the markers:


m = thisComp.layer("1.mp3").marker;
n = 0;
if (m.numKeys > 0){
n = m.nearestKey(time).index;
if (m.key(n).time > time){
n--;
}
}
if (n == 0){
""
}else{
m.key(n).comment;
}


Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Try applying this to the opacity property of each of your shape layers:

totalFade = 5;
minFade = .25;
maxFade = 1;
seedRandom(index,true);
myFade = random(minFade,maxFade);
myStart = random(0,totalFade-myFade);
ease(time,myStart,myStart+myFade,0,100)

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Let’s say you have something controlled by a slider on a null. That might look like this:

thisComp.layer(“controls”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);

If instead, you wanted to use a number in a text layer, you could do it like this:

parseFloat(thisComp.layer(“text”).text.sourceText);

Is that what you mean?

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

That depends on what you mean by global. When I want something to be accessible from anywhere within my script, I declare an object just inside my enclosing function, like this:


function de_NewScript(){

// globals

var G = new Object();
G.scriptName = "Dan's New Script";\

// functions

function myUtilityFunction(){
// function code here
}

// main code

}
de_NewScript();


But if I need something global that two scripts can use to communicate, I would generally attach it to the app (maybe not recommended, but it seems to work):

app.de_object = {};
app.de_object.script1Present = true;

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

You need to make sure that only one of those statements gets executed at any given frame. Something like this (not tested):


if (time < key(5).time){
linear(time, key(3).time, key(4).time, value, value+comp("OUTRO 3 TEXT HITS").layer("TEXT CENTER CONTROLS").effect("1st TEXT CENTER ADJUSTMENT")("Slider"));
}else if (time < key(7).time){
linear(time, key(5).time, key(6).time, value+comp("OUTRO 3 TEXT HITS").layer("TEXT CENTER CONTROLS").effect("1st TEXT CENTER ADJUSTMENT")("Slider"), value);
}else if (time < key(9).time){
linear(time, key(7).time, key(8).time, value, value+comp("OUTRO 3 TEXT HITS").layer("TEXT CENTER CONTROLS").effect("2nd TEXT CENTER ADJUSTMENT")("Slider"));
}else{
linear(time, key(9).time, key(10).time, value, value+comp("OUTRO 3 TEXT HITS").layer("TEXT CENTER CONTROLS").effect("2nd TEXT CENTER ADJUSTMENT")("Slider"));
}


Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

An easy way to keep from cluttering AE’s namespace with your function names is to make sure everything in enclosed in a single function with a unique name, like this:


function AndiraiMaji_01(){

// your script here

}
AndiraiMaji_01();


Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Ah, ok. In the three places where you have lines like this:

var textProp = app.project.item(i).layer(“myTextLayer1”).property(“Source Text”);

change the layer name to j, like this:

var textProp = app.project.item(i).layer(j).property(“Source Text”);

When you access a layer by name, you’ll always the the first layer with that name.

Dan