[Joel Young]

Works perfect. Thank you very much for showing me ==, now the search results show a lot more information.

[Joel Young]

I’m trying something similar to this, but I want the color to be driven by the value of a text layer. I’m going for a conditional statement, but even when I simplify it I am not getting the desired results. It seems to just return the value of the first if statement no matter what.

color1 = [255,255,255,255];
color2 = [0,255,0,255]; // Green
color3 = [255,0,0,255]; // Red

c = thisComp.layer("Text1").text.sourceText;

if (c = "Green")
color2/255;
else if (c = "Red")
color3/255;
else
color1/255;

[Joel Young]

Drew, ran across your post, and saw you are in Philly. Was wondering how things panned out. I live in philly and have some experience working at schools. Never video production at schools, of course being on this forum I do have some video production experience though. Let me know if I can help out in anyway, sounds like a great time.
Joel

[Joel Young]

Hello, great tut, and I know I’m a little late on this, but I was just having the same problem as RZeemering & stevem1928. So I came researching here on the forums. Didn’t find it, but started playing more and I’ve got something that worked for me. After you make your effect in a comp, leave it be and when you add the “swirlie” effect comp to another comp just change the mode to add, lighten, or any other one in that section. Going to try some other ways to get it to go behind and in front of things, but is doing what I want now.
Thanks,
Lman

[Joel Young]

rendernyc, thanks for the info. I did have an older version. I updated and it seemed to fix the problem at first, but the more I added the more drop outs I seem to run into. I’m guessing it is some what of a hardware problem. I didn’t think it would matter when rendering the movie, just maybe in a preview, but it did. As a work around I have been breaking the video into 20 second segments and rendering them and compiling them in another program. Not ideal, but it works. Anyone have any other suggestions you are more than welcome.
Lman