[Dan Ebberts]

Sure, but it depends on what you’re trying to do. I’m having a hard time thinking of a scenario where that would be useful.

[Dan Ebberts]

You’d probably set that up like this:

time < 3 ? linear(time,0,1,10,20) : linear(time,3,4,20,30)

[Dan Ebberts]

When trying to suss out the property hierarchies for text and shape layers, I always grab Jeff Almasol’s wonderful rd_GimmePropPath.jsx script. I don’t know if it’s still available anywhere, but I use it all the time.

[Dan Ebberts]

I think you’re close. I think it’s:

thisProperty.propertyGroup(3).name.length

I believe there is a hidden Selectors group in there.

[Dan Ebberts]

Have you tried myGroup.bounds.width?

[Dan Ebberts]

I might do it like this, but it doesn’t really save much unless you added more layers:

L = [  "1",    "2",    "3",  "4",  "5"];
V = [-133.2, -57.2 , -15.2, 61.2, 61.2];
val = 179.2;
for (i = 0; i < L.length; i++){
  if (comp("EDIT").layer(L[i]).active){
    val = V[i];
    break;
  }
}
val

[Dan Ebberts]

I think you just need to replace the last line with this (not tested though):

tMax = Math.max(t.width,t2.width,t3.width);
[tMax,t.height]

[Dan Ebberts]

You can get the expression selector movements to overlap if you decouple move time from the delay, like this maybe:

delay = 5; //number of frames to delay
dur = 7;
d0 = delay*thisComp.frameDuration*(textIndex-1);
ease(time,d0,d0+framesToTime(dur),100,0)

But yes, the technique appears to be clamped to the range from -100 to 100, so it’s only suitable for specific cases.

[Dan Ebberts]

Since it’s all one text layer, did you consider using a single Expression Selector, where you could use something like this for the Amount:

delay = 5; //number of frames to delay
d = delay*thisComp.frameDuration*(textIndex);
d0 = delay*thisComp.frameDuration*(textIndex-1);
ease(time,d0,d,100,0)

[Dan Ebberts]

Something like this should work:

m = thisComp.layer("MARKER").marker;
n = m.nearestKey(time).index;
t = 0;
if (time < m.key(n).time) n--;
if (n > 0){
  for(i = n; i > 0; i--){
    if (m.key(i).comment == name){
      t = time - m.key(i).time;
      break;
    }
  }
}
t