Creative COW | Jean Baptiste | Activity

Jean Baptiste replied to the discussion Source Text Split() method in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:04:07 +0000

Hello Nick,

I was inspired by Trent’s answer. You can download here a AE project with a proposition.
https://github.com/jybedesign/after-effects-name-splitter

This solution is :
– Using “Essential graphic” panel to set the First name & Last name in the Precomp.
– Using a “marker comment” to set the name by the user in the main comp (with an underscore…

Jean Baptiste started the discussion How to change the "velocity" of the ease() function — for advanced users in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:51:15 +0000

How to change the "velocity" of the ease() function — for advanced users

Usually, I try to limit as much as possible the number of keyframes in my project, so I have to use the linear() and ease() function a lot.

BUT, the velocity of the ease function is fixed (for info, it’s the same as the one of the “easy ease keyframes”, namely an “Incoming and Outcoming Velocity of Speed=0 and Influence=33.33”, and it’s very cl…

Jean Baptiste changed their photo

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:40:16 +0000

Jean Baptiste replied to the discussion How to use textSource.style expression with other expression in the forum Adobe After Effects

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:34:52 +0000

Reply to How to use textSource.style expression with other expression

Hello Hadi,

You can try to use this expression in a Text Layer “Source Text” field.

FONT_SIZE = effect(“FONT_SIZE”)(“Slider”);
text.sourceText.style.setFontSize(FONT_SIZE);

Attention, you must : Go to File > Project Setting > Expressions, and set the Expression Engine to JavaScript. Otherwise, “text style” expressions won’t work.

Project sample here<…