Sorry to waffle on this but…it looks like my client wants it the way I had it initially, so:

Basically I just want to emulate what it looks like if you add a linear keyframe to the offset every time we hit a marker. So I’d like to use either a linear or ease function to go to the next offset value each time we arrive at a marker. No need to do…

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I’ve been thinking about this and, here is what I’m trying to accomplish: Ideally, each time we reach a marker a word would go to 100% opacity and then immediately start fading. That fade would continue as we hit the next marker/word, with something like a 1.5 second delay.

Howdy,

I have markers (on another layer) driving a text highlight by…

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You’re a genius, Dan. Thanks again for everything.

I have a path that is animating constantly with the path parameter itself keyframed. When a certain end-point is triggered, I want that path to smoothly animate to its end-state. And it’s different for each asset I’m doing, so I want to be able to just drag the marker to set that end-point.

I would have done it with scale or something like that,…

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Thanks Dan. I think the problem with this is that I’m using ValueAtTime to animate between two paths, which is why I was trying to do it all with the frame number. Looks like I can’t ease between two paths this way.

Whelp…I guess I spoke too soon. It only works if there are no keyframes on the timeline after the marker point. If there ARE keyframes, it kind of bounces back and forth between my easing expression and whatever those keyframes are doing. So it’s super jumpy. I wonder how to ignore those keyframes.

Wow, I’m kind of proud of myself…figured this out on my own! Here is what I used:

markerTime = thisLayer.marker.key(“End”).time;

if (time>=markerTime) {

z = ease(time,markerTime,markerTime+1,markerTime,20);

valueAtTime(z);

}

else {valueAtTime(time);}

Thanks again, Dan! We actually adjusted the gap to 14 frames for now and that seemed to fix it, but I will check this one out as well. Appreciate your time.

I’m building a template to allow someone to easily control when a path animates to an end state by adjusting a layer marker.

The path is keyframed and animating constantly, so I thought I would set an end-state keyframe at the end of the timeline and use valueAtTime in the path parameter combined with an easing expression. And this would all be…

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Hey Dan,

The expression works great–but it looks like it has sort of a hitch at around 4 seconds (video attached). IF it helps, I’m working in 23.98.

Thanks again for the help!

This is amazing! Thank you so much, Dan!

Thanks so much Dan! And yes, definitely want the motion to all occur around the same position.

The only issue here is that I need the object to move for 5 frames, pause for 15, and repeat.

Hi all,

Looking to write an expression that:

– moves a layer by a small amount every 15 frames.

– movement lasts 5 frames

– it shouldn’t jump around–just a single move from point a to point b

– the movement should be different each time.

I started by building an array of random numbers, with the goal of basically saying:

Start at point A. Point B will…

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