[Justin Lundy]

I followed your code and got the following expression error:

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks!

[Justin Lundy]

Yeah, getting the indexes figured out is my next goal.

Thanks Dan!

[Justin Lundy]

UPDATE:

I realized the variables I had in the linear expression are not actually necessary and have simplified the expression as follows:

ease(thisComp.layer(“Effector”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”),25,540,[2020,540],[1114,540]);

However, when I copy the expression and change the X position, everything animates in and stops in the correct spots, but they all animate in simultaneously. How can I delay the animations?

Updated AE project attached.

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[Justin Lundy]

Dan, you are a lifesaver. It works! Thank you so much!

[Justin Lundy]

Gotcha. Thank you so much! I’ll play around with some simpler text animation that play nicer with those expressions.

[Justin Lundy]

Sweet. Thank you!

The text animation is just a preset animation in the effects panel.

What do I put in the fields with question marks?

[Justin Lundy]

Awesome! It is attached. Thanks for taking a look and helping me out.

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[Justin Lundy]

Would it be helpful if I upload a version of the AE project? There’s no linked files, only native shapes and text.

[Justin Lundy]

Thanks for the reply, Dan!

I currently have the following expression in the rectangle’s size property connecting the X value to the width of the text layer:

“var s = thisComp.layer(“Text”);

var start = s.inPoint;

var end = s.outPoint;

var mid = (end-start)/2;

var w = s.sourceRectAtTime(mid).width;

var h = s.sourceRectAtTime(mid).height;

[w,h];”

I removed the “mid” from the X sourceRectAtTime and added “+value” after the “[w,h];” and that lets me keyframe the animation, but breaks the dynamic resizing of the text box, which would be fine, but the goal of this is to export these as a MOGRT and have the size of the text box dynamically resize based on whomever’s name is put in the text field. It’s also animating in from the center rather than from the left despite the shape’s anchor point being on the left.

[Justin Lundy]

That worked perfectly! Thank you so much!