[Kevin Gries]

Ok, thank you very much Dan! You’ve been a great help.

FYI: The first movement of Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata has approximately 8,506 notes in it. At 11 minutes and 40 seconds long, it averages approximately 12 notes per second.

Today I Learned.

Kevin

[Kevin Gries]

Dan,

Yes, you are correct, it is a slider. Your code worked perfectly. I am so very thankful for your help!

I’m sitting here going through your code trying to figure out what it all means. The logic of it all makes sense and lines up with my programming experience. My initial attempts to get this to work followed the same format. However, it’s the syntax of the terms like .numKeys, .nearestKey(time).index, .key().time that were missing from my brain preventing me from figuring it out. I googled these terms when I was trying to dissect the code to which I linked in my first post and the best I found was this:

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/expression-language-reference.html

It explained what “numKeys” does, but not so much how it works or how to use it, at least not enough for me to grasp. If I could ask you for a bit more help, would you be able to recommend any good references for learning how these commands work and how to use them? So far, everything I’ve come across is either too simple (ex. how to write a script to display a slider’s value) or too specialized (and difficult to apply to anything other than one specific example). I’m looking for something I can pair with that (above linked) expression language reference to be a good go-to when I need to figure something like this out. Hopefully that makes sense…

Is there anything you would recommend?

Either way, thank you again for your help!

Kevin

[Kevin Gries]

Thanks for the replies Kevin and Dave. Kevin, your “hold keyframes” suggestion fixed the issue, thank you very much! The typewriter preset, however, would not work in this case because that’s not technically text on the screen. Those letters are actually pre-composed objects that are mapped in the shape of letters.

Dave, the fact that you’re calling me a COW newbie should actually be a huge compliment to you and the other “regulars” on this forum. I’ve been referencing these forums for years (ever since I got CS3 when it was new) for solutions to the problems I run into with AE. This just happens to be the first time I haven’t found the solution I needed and had to post the issue myself. You guys are amazing and the fact that this is only the first time I’ve ever had to actually post my question is a testament to how awesome you have been. Your “stock answer #3,” for example, was the reason I tested it with an AVI after I noticed the problem with the H.264 version. And I have never used OpenGL in my renders thanks again to this forum.

In short, I’m a fan. Thank you very much for all your help!