This didn’t work for me either. I have two linear rotation keyframes on my 2D layer. I tried the loopOut(“continue”,0) expression, making sure they were straight quotes and not curly- gives me a syntax error.
SOLUTION: Also need to remove the ,0 after “continue” so the expression should look like this:

loopOut("continue")

Thanks so much, Filip! It works great! This is much simpler than I was imagining, and a great starting point. I was able to make it also start playing on the inPoint of the grid layer (rather than being stuck in time as I try to shift the grid layer left/right in the timeline). I also added a slider value to the random seed so I can change the…

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I have a similar problem except minus the CSV stuff. I’m making a sort of grid of videos floating in 3D space and I want them each to play part of a long sequence of footage in a precomp- but start on a random clip and loop back to the beginning if they reach the end. I’m unsure how to write an expression in Time Remapping that would start each…

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Thank you, Dan! This works great! I initially thought I still needed to have the X, Y, and Z Rotation properties of the cameras linked, but that is not the case! The Orientation expression takes care of it all 😃

If anyone else is trying to do this, here is my simple expression for the Position:

comp("Main Comp").layer("Camera 1").toWorld([0,0,0])

I have a 3D model rendered with Superluminal’s Stardust plugin (works kind of like Element 3D). The problem is I need to precomp this layer, but I want to link the camera in the precomp to the camera in the main comp, so as I move the main comp camera, the model moves accordingly. One more twist is that my main comp camera is parented to a null,…

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