[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Vasco,

maybe you should start with saying what plug-ins you are using.

After Effects lights are always invisible, they don’t cast any visible rays, so you are probably using something like lux ? Or a lightfactory preset or other lens flare that is linked to the light’s position using expressions ?

If we’re even guessing what you are using, then we can’t offer a solution.

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Adam, this doesn’t implement the blinking of the final character, that could be added with a textanimator, but I hope this can send you on your way:

const message = "123 Typing T9 style texts inside of after effects.".toUpperCase();
const multitaps = { "B": "AB", "C": "ABC", "2": "ABC2", "E": "DE", "F": "DEF", "3": "DEF3", "H": "GH", "I": "GHI", "4": "GHI4", "K": "JK", "L": "JKL", "5": "JKL5", "N": "MN", "O": "MNO", "6": "MNO6", "Q": "PQ", "R": "PQR", "S": "PQRS", "7": "PQRS7", "U": "TU", "V": "TUV", "8": "TUV8", "X": "WX", "Y": "WXY", "Z": "WXYZ", "9": "WXYZ9"};
let steps = [];
let result = "";
for (let character of message) {
	let keypresses = multitaps[character];
	if (keypresses == undefined) {
		result += character;
		steps.push(result);
	} else {
		for (let keypress of keypresses) {
			steps.push(result + keypress);
		}
		result+= character;
	}
}
let f = timeToFrames(time/5);
steps[f-1];

[Filip Vandueren]

Parent the Name to the title, and give the position of Name this expression:

[25 + parent.sourceRectAtTime().width-thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime().left, 0];

it will position it exactly 25 pixels to the right of the title. Adjust that margin to suit your fontsize.

Or use something like this, if you want to automatically base the spacing on the fontsize of the title:

[parent.text.sourceText.style.fontSize*.5 + parent.sourceRectAtTime().width-thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime().left, 0]

[Filip Vandueren]

Hello Ana,

I’m assuming you used this expression of mine forma few years ago:

hSpeed= 1111;
vSpeed= 345;
hMargin= 150;
vMargin= 75;
cw=thisComp.width - hMargin*2;
ch=thisComp.height -vMargin*2;
// calculate the layer moving at a constant speed
x = value[0] - hMargin + time*hSpeed;
y = value[1] - vMargin + time*vSpeed;
// keep the layer in bounds
x = Math.abs(x);
x%=2*cw;
x = x>cw ? (2*cw)-x : x;
y = Math.abs(y);
y%=2*ch;
y = y>ch ? (2*ch)-y : y;
[x,y]+[hMargin,vMargin]

You can count the bounces by using similar Math instead of actually look at the values of the keyframes.

this would work:

hSpeed= 1111;
vSpeed= 345;
hMargin= 150;
vMargin= 75;
cw=thisComp.width - hMargin*2;
ch=thisComp.height -vMargin*2;
startPos = position.valueAtTime(0);
// calculate the layer moving at a constant speed
x = startPos[0] - hMargin + time*hSpeed;
y = startPos[1] - vMargin + time*vSpeed;
hBounces = Math.floor(x/cw);
vBounces = Math.floor(y/ch);
totalBounces = hBounces + vBounces;

[Filip Vandueren]

Nope, It’s not a feature of mogrts (yet ?)

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/36033454-add-the-ability-to-keyframe-an-imported-after-effe

[Filip Vandueren]

I wrote an animation preset with some expressions that can solve this:

https://imgur.com/gallery/9oRKx7R

this version only works on static text, so doesn’t update if the text is also animated by some text animators.

In this Demo of V2 (which would support text animators, but I’m not willing to release yet) you can see how I did something similar: I mapped an animated emoji layer on top of another character in the text-layer. This can be done with V1 as well

https://imgur.com/gallery/I7uVARU

quick demo of v2 of subSourceRect

[Filip Vandueren]

It probably has more to do with the number of comps: if you’ve added the csv to the timeline in each of those precomps, after effects creates a property in the timeline for every single datapoint in the csv, each with an expression. That quickly adds up to possibly thousands of properties.

Just having Lots of keyframes (corner pin tracking, or converting lots of things expression to keyframes) can also quickly balloon the file size

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Christian, you need a different kind of selector: remove the “Range selector” and add an “Expression Selector”, then apply the expression there.

An expression on Amount of a range cannot calculate different amounts for different characters/words/lines.

[Filip Vandueren]

He’s on the After Effects forum.
If you make a donation and ask him nicely, he might show you the trick 🙂

Or just run his script from your script.

[Filip Vandueren]

Walter Soyka knows of a way to toggle the transparency grid:

https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/toggle-transparency-grid-shortcut-in-after-effects-2/

Toggle Transparency Grid Shortcut in After Effects