Dan, again many thanks for a perfect working expression!

If I may borrow some more of your time, i’m trying to get a grasp of writing my own expressions and manage to write simple ones. Can you elaborate on the functions you are using on line 2?

cb gives a value of 0 or 1 depending on the state of the checkbox but what happens after that? Is it…

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Hi There,

I’m trying to add a checkbox control to a simple expression I made to control the leading and scaling of a text. The number value needs to be 77.7 or 90 (value at the end of the expression, (“Slider”)/100*77.7)) so the leading can only be either 77.7 or 90. Is this an easy fix for the for the gods of the AE Expression pantheon?…

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Works like a charm!
Many thanks for your time and help, very much appreciated!

Gr Gerben

Hi Dan,

The idea is to control the value of key(2) to 0 or 15.
The expression you posted definitely does solve the problem! Many Thanx!
Good to see that I was looking in the right direction with the valueAtTime, just didn’t know how to implement it correctly.

If I could ask for one more thing; I also would like the expression to reverse at the end of…

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Hi There,

I’m trying to make a checkbox controlled blur on a layer. I want the option to switch of the blur in an Essential Graphic if it is desired.

So I found this script and it (almost) does the trick. But when the checkbox is unchecked the blur ramps up to its 2nd keyframe value to drop to zero when on key. I think that the problem lies between…

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oh stupid me, I mean Filip of course😬

And thats exactly what i’m looking for!
Like your Cell Pattern approach 😀
Never occurred to me to use it that way.

And again… Flip to the rescue!

¡Muchas grazias amigo!

Hi Flip!

Thanks for replying 🙂
I’ve attached a clip with all the color- and aberration effects stacked on top. This video-comp contains 2 instances of the footage that have a mask. This mask contains either the horizontal or the vertical strokes. I have set Fractal Noise with an extreme scale on either the x- or y-axis and a b*ttload of contrast to…

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My best guess is they used the Red Giant Film plugin for this. I see generated hairs and scratches. And a little vignette. Then on top of that an inverse.

Hi there!

I’m trying to make a mask which contains vertical or horizontal lines/strokes that randomly and slowly move and change in thickness. I thought i could fix it with Fractal Noise but the sudden appearance and disappearance of the lines is not what my client wants. Is there a plugin (AE standard only) that can fix this or is this fixable by…

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And again many thanks for the solution!

I’ve found this great rig for randomizing preset colors.
It’s made by Andrew Marston of Ukramedia and it works perfectly.

The only trouble with this rig is that it doesn’t blend the colors from one color to another.
Is there a simple solution to gradually change to another random color?

The code is down below. The first is the more elaborate version…

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He Filip,

Thnx again!
In the meanwhile I did find the ‘replace’ function but dit not know where to place it in the expression. Now when I see it it makes total sense 😄.

As a sidenote: the top expression works, the bottom version not.

Response is:

Error: Syntaxerror: Invalid or unexpected token

The second quotation mark after the zero is blue. Adding a…

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I’ve got an expression that generates numbers to currency.
when the amount is a round number with “,00”, is it possible to replace the zero’s with a dash?

I’ve got the following expression working:

v=thisComp.layer("Grocerylist#1.csv")("Data")("Outline")("KidsCost")("KidsCost 4")
new Intl.NumberFormat('nl-NL', {
    style: 'currency',
    currency:…

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Hi Tomas,

I’ve found a way to build it almost as you suggested and works like a charm!

Thnx!

Hi There,

I’m working on a project to import Excel cell data into an animated shopping list.
The idea is that you see a grocery receipt where you can see the price difference between identical products but bought at different stores.

The first column contains the groceries, the second contains the price and there is a third column that contains the…

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I was not able to check it earlier but it works like a charm!
Thnx for the patience and input.

Gr G

Haha missed that one 🙂
Thnx for your time and feedback.

Sorry to say but now I get another mishap.
‘Error at line 1: Couldn’t return result into numeric value’

I’m using the Numbers effect to generate the value to get my correct format (comma and the two decimals). Has this anything to do with the error?

If you mean the ‘Enable JavaScript Debugger’ checkbox under the ‘Scripting & Expressions’ tab, that one is checked…

Thnx Filip!

It works great!
The only problem is that I get an error on the last bit of the script.
Line 6: ‘new Intl.NumberFormat’. The ‘Intl’ is not recognized as a property or method.
So the rest of the expression doesn’t work.

Is there a simple fix?
thnx in advance

Gr Gerben

Hi There,

I’m working on a project where I have to make a money counter (with two decimals) that has a variable start and end value. So let’s say the start value has to be € 2456,95 and the end value has to count down to € 1354,15. The whole thing also has to work in an Essential Graphic so the editor can adjust these values in Premiere.

I tri…

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Thnx Dan!

I just happen to find this code on another site.
It uses position as the source but works the same.

p1 = thisComp.layer("Start").transform.position;
p2 = thisComp.layer("End").transform.position;
v = p2 - p1;
radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(v[1], v[0]));

Hi Dan,

 

I’m working on an animation where two wheels of a car move separately on a bumpy road and the chassis has to rotate according the value of these two wheels. Looking at this expression I think this will do the trick. But when I apply the expression I get a syntax error on the ‘delta’. Seeing this expression is from the year 2010 I… Read more