[Glenroy James]

URGH! KRINGE! its just 4 pieces of text…

I was just reading through this thread

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/8035#14705

I guess i’ll do it the old fashion way :-S

[Glenroy James]

there is such a thing as “parent” right? i don’t see any references on it? :-/

[Glenroy James]

You ever figured this out?

[Glenroy James]

[Dan Ebberts] “but I’m not sure if that meets your requirements.”

Aaaahhhh actually it can….

just to clarify via psuedo…

so a CompA.layer.textsource = CompB.layer.textsource; // CompB is parent to CompA?

if i create a transparent text source in comp b and have comp a use it as the source text it just might work >:-D muuuaahhahahahahahahaha…thanks!

[Glenroy James]

Ok cool

I have a movie scene which I want to have a repeated effect taken on each instance of text…I rather not have to copy and paste the effect to each text instance…instead I was hoping to have the effect in a comp and for each instance of the comp use a expressions to manipulate the text inside it.

Thus

I have a COMP A that has a layer with 2 text fields with text effects on them I place COMP A as an instance on COMP B thus COMP A is a CHILD of COMP B…

Can I change the actual “text” in COMP A using an expression in COMP B?

[Glenroy James]

what i want to do is have its parent composition change the text using expressions…

thus

thisComp.layerTheCompisOn.theComp.layerTheTextIsOn.textValue = ‘text’;

[Glenroy James]

To facilitate diagnosis, may we have specifics of the contents of your project and the footage contained therein, specifically in regard to frame rates?

Well I am not using any video footage…Photoshop images, lighting, camera movement and text effects. Photoshop files are 240px at 1900x… at a 16bit channel. Currently my compositions is PAL D1/ DV Widescreen Square Pixel 1024×576 at 25fps. I just learnt though that I should have used NTSC DV.

Whats the best way to convert it without messing up what I already did?

[Glenroy James]

got it!
s = "may \rthe FLAME of\rpeace, properity\rand happiness|and \rwarm your heart";
ind = parseInt(thisComp.layer("Paragraphs").effect("textArray")("Slider"));
t = s.split('|')[ind];
text.sourceText = t;

[Glenroy James]

s = “may \rthe FLAME of peace, properity and happiness|and \rwarm your heart”;
ind = effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);
t = s.split(‘|’);
text.sourceText =t[ind];

updated my expression…(I know some javascript)

[Glenroy James]

Well i have upgraded my quicktime and i set the purge frames to 1. I then used 1/2 resolution on 87 high quality and I am able to get a completed render but in some parts of the video i get a blank red screen where there should be animations. My footages are all SWFs and JPEGS