[Marshall Eide]

Thanks, but that setting didn’t seem to be checked. I did find the fix to my problem, however limited. The source of my problem may have been the multiple layers using Track Matte Key. I opted for one matte of both boxes and one nested sequence with the Track Matte Key FX applied. This seemed to preserve the aspect ratio of the matte on both work stations.

[Marshall Eide]

Thank you Dan! This seems to work flawlessly. This makes everything so clear! I think my big mistake was relying on the if statements to determine the time things should turn on. When it’s already dictated in the ‘ease()’. All the ‘if’ needs to do is return a true statement chronologically.

[Marshall Eide]

Hi Dan!
Thanks for your help here and on the many posts you’ve answered! I’ve learned a lot from you already. However, this doesn’t seem to work either. I think I didn’t explain the end goal of the expression so well. The blue fade comes on, holds, and fades out, then based on another separate set of values comes on again, holds and fades out.

I took your advice in putting things in chronological order and it’s helped me with other expressions, but this one I’m starting to think can’t work because the ‘cti’ (frame number) is being tested by four different variables. They both work when split apart. I was thinking if “st” (start time) and “et” (end time) variables could be switched in the

ease(time, var, var +/- fadeTime, color, color)

array it might reduce the if statements. I’m not that advanced yet, but I’m keen to learn.