[John Cuevas]

I would use Trapcode Particular, put every character in a precomp. Then in the final comp use that precomp to generate my custom sprites. You can download a trail of Particular at Red Giant to see if it will work for your purposes.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Try pressing F4(or Alt+f4) to toggle the modes/switches option.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Looks like he used a preset to bring in his text that enables 3D, then added a 3D camera to the composition. Finally, a small wiggle expression is added to the position of the cam to create the movement. To do that, twirl open the camera’s position property, alt_click the stopwatch and add: wiggle(3,10)

3 = times it wiggles per second.
10 = distance it moves.

Then just adjust those numbers to taste.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

There isn’t a plugin/preset that’s going to do it. Truthfully, this is where you earn your bucks, cause depending on the amount of text, it can be a pretty time consuming process.

Google Results “morph text after effects tutorial”

All the tutorials use basically the same concept, this one is pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni24lqXRveU

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

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[John Cuevas]

And after seeing the perfect response from Cassius, here’s a much more complicated way of doing it. Expression to the position property:

x = transform.position[0];
y = transform.position[1];
myTime = timeToFrames(t = time + thisComp.displayStartTime, fps = 1.0 / thisComp.frameDuration, isDuration = false);
myCondition = myTime % 10;
timeDown = myTime - myCondition

if (myCondition == 0) ([x,y]) - [myTime,0] else [x-timeDown,y]

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Don’t need an expression for this, you can do by just using a couple of animators.

Create a text layer consisting of just “0”‘s, however many you want for the length of your binary string. Add an offset animator and set it to 1. Now select the “Animator 1” and add a wiggly selector and change the “Min Amount” to 0%. All that’s left is deciding how many wiggles per second you want. And if you have a bunch of layers you may want to add an expression to the Random Seed like “index * 10”

Here’s a quick example project: 9391_binarynumbers.aep.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

You should probably post this in the Expressions Forum

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

I think there is a lot of value in the Trish & Chris Meyer books also. The approach is very step by step, with one the following lessons building on earlier ones. Great for learning the fundamentals. Most of the new stuff they do is on Lynda, but for 20 bucks for used copies, it’s a great deal.

Amazon Link

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

What are your comp settings, aspect ratio, pixel aspect ratio. Also, can you post a screen shot of your timeline with any changes to the layer twirled open?

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Here’s a thread where some falling techniques were discussed and it includes a link to a falling paper/feather project I did that you might find handy.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.