[David Gray]

Cheers Ronald. Is much appreciated.

[David Gray]

Thanks a lot mate! Working perfectly.

[David Gray]

Hey Dan,

Back again for your excellent help :p

I’m thinking that it would be possible to optimise this expression for my task my having it insert the name of the layer below automaticly. I had a quick google but no avail.

So the code in layman’s terms
delay = 3;
thisComp.layer(“LAYERBELOW”).opacity.valueAtTime(time – framesToTime(delay))

[David Gray]

Cheers Dan!

You’ve been a great help.

[David Gray]

Actually don’t worry it happens so fast you can’t really tell :p

Though if there is a solution you can think of is always interesting to hear/learn

Cheers
Dave

[David Gray]

Oops yep is working now!

Only Problem now (not a major one) is it fades in. Would there perhaps be a way for it to place another key frame on the second frame with opacity 0 and then jump up to 100?

Thanks a lot so far though!

Cheers
Dave

[David Gray]

Hey Dan,

Thanks for the help I think it should. I’m having some problems though probably just due to my lack of knowledge.

At the moment the expression is(in texts 2 opacity):
delay = 3;
if (thisComp.layer(“Text1”)opacity.valueAtTIME)(time – framesToTime(delay) then {100} else {0};

I’m getting the following error don’t think it is even getting to the delay.

After Effects warning :Expected: )
Expression disabled.
Error occured at line 2.
Comp: Comp 1
Layer: 1 (‘text 2’)
property: opacity

So I guess I’m missing an ) from somewhere not sure where though.

Cheers
Dave

[David Gray]

Hey,

I don’t know if you still need this answering but a 50mm lens at F2 focused at 6′ would have a near focus of 5’9″, far focus of 6’3″