[Julian Chojnacki]

Hi Roy,

you can achieve this effect by masking out freeze frames and motion tracking them into the shot. Here’s a tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sLJM6tD7aw

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[Julian Chojnacki]

Hi Paul,

I’m not sure if this is exactly what you’re looking for, but I hope this helps (as an addition/alternative to Filip‘s approach)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgiaNEQit3g

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[Julian Chojnacki]

Hey Fabian,

have you come across a solution to the repeated text from center?

Best
Julian

[Julian Chojnacki]

Thank you, Dan! This does the job brilliantly.

Now, I’ve hit another roadblock when trying to apply this concept to an expression selector in order to animate the words individually, so that they’re truly synced to the audio.

My idea is to combine your expression (the previous t+.5 version) with the expression below that uses layer markers to animate text on a per-word basis. I just can’t wrap my head around how to stack the if/else conditions. How would you approach this?

anim = thisProperty;
delayDur = framesToTime(effect("Delay Duration")("Slider").value);
numMarkers = marker.numKeys;
delay = (textIndex - 1)*delayDur;
if (numMarkers > 0)
{delay = textIndex <= numMarkers ? marker.key(textIndex).time : marker.key(numMarkers).time;}
anim.valueAtTime(time - delay);

Best
Julian

[Julian Chojnacki]

Thanks for the fast reply!

Basically, I’m using the expression below to animate subtitles with text animators using Source Text keyframes. It works perfectly! On single words to be specific. But when it comes to longer sentences, I’d love to have the ability to stretch the ease animation to the next sentence/Source Text keyframe, so that the text is roughly synced with the audio. The ease expression values are driving the range selectors “Start”.

Best
Julian

m = text.sourceText;
if (m.numKeys > 0){
n = m.nearestKey(time).index;
if (m.key(n).time > time) n--;
}
if (n > 0){
t = m.key(n).time;
t2 = n + m.key(n).time;
ease (time,t,t+.5,0,100);
}else
0

[Julian Chojnacki]

Hi Dan, this expression is a gem for subtitles! I’m curious, is it possible to use the next marker as an endpoint for the ease animation instead of using “t+1”?