[Dan Ebberts]

It would help if you could describe what’s generating the animation and what you want to happen.

[Dan Ebberts]

>the expression is from motion script site

Not exactly.

One thing I notice is that you have the frequency tied to a slider. Is the slider animated at all? That could cause problems.

[Dan Ebberts]

It will probably look something like this:

// count previous beats
threshold = 10.0;
moveAmt = [0,-10];
audioLev = thisComp.layer("Audio Amplitude").effect("Both Channels")("Slider");
above = false;
frame = timeToFrames(time);
n = 0;
fSave = 0;
while (frame >= 0){
  t = framesToTime(frame);
  if (above){
    if (audioLev.valueAtTime(t) < threshold){
      above = false;
    }
  }else if (audioLev.valueAtTime(t) >= threshold){
    if (fSave == 0) fSave = frame;
    above = true;
    n++;
  }
  frame--
}
// find the next beat
frame = Math.round(time / thisComp.frameDuration) + 1;
above = audioLev.value > threshold
while(framesToTime(frame) < thisComp.duration){
  t = framesToTime(frame);
  if (above){
    if (audioLev.valueAtTime(t) < threshold){
      above = false;
    }
  }else if (audioLev.valueAtTime(t) >= threshold){
    break;
  }
  frame++;
}
dt = time - framesToTime(fSave);
tTot = framesToTime(frame - fSave);
value + n*moveAmt + linear(dt,0,tTot,[0,0],moveAmt)

[Dan Ebberts]

Depending on how you want it to behave, this would be one way:

w = wiggle(3,.02);
d = w - value;
value + [Math.abs(d[0]),Math.abs(d[1])]

[Dan Ebberts]

toWorld() has a built-in time parameter. Try it this way:

delay = 3; // delay frames
L = thisComp.layer("Null_1");
L.toWorld(L.anchorPoint,time - delay*thisComp.frameDuration)

[Dan Ebberts]

>Also, new to these forums, how do I post script properly?

Paste your code into your response, then click the Aa button below your post, then select your code and click the </> button.

[Dan Ebberts]

No, it’s a position expression.

[Dan Ebberts]

I’m making a lot of assumptions here, but it might be helpful. I’m only considering the text layers themselves, I’m assuming there are 4 of them and that they are layers 1 thru 4 in the layer stack. I’m assuming the the margins at the edges of the comp will be half the spacing between the text layers. With that in mind, I think this position expression will space your text layers in the x direction:

n = 4; // number of text layers participating
// get total text width for all layers
w = 0;
for (i = 1; i <= n; i++){
  w += thisComp.layer(i).sourceRectAtTime(time).width;
}
// calcuate extra space
s = thisComp.width - w;
gap = s/n; // gap between text layers
margin = gap/2
// calculate where my left edge should be
myLeftEdge = margin;
for (i = 1; i < index; i++){
  myLeftEdge += thisComp.layer(i).sourceRectAtTime(time).width + gap;
}
// move this layer into position
[myLeftEdge - sourceRectAtTime(time).left, value[1]]

[Dan Ebberts]

I think this will just pick up the style attributes you mentioned from Text Layer 1 and leave the rest untouched:

txt = thisComp.layer("Text Layer 1").text.sourceText;
s = txt.style;
thisProperty.style.setFont(s.font).setFontSize(s.fontSize).setText(txt).setLeading(s.leading).setTracking(s.tracking);

[Dan Ebberts]

My guess is it would look something like this:

txt = thisComp.layer("times").text.sourceText;
splt = txt.split("\r");
n = splt.length;
t = 0; i = n-1;
function getTime(x){return(parseFloat(splt[x].split("/")[1]))}
while(i >= 0){
  if (time >= getTime(i)){
    t = time - getTime(i)
    break;
  }
  i--;
}
valueAtTime(t);