I’ve never heard of this so I have no idea how it works, but it does seem to work which is amazing. I used the new Render Time benchmark feature to compare what happens if you run your expression but remove the error code from the “else” section.

It seems to drastically increase the render time than if you were to enable posterizeTime(0)

I’m not sure if there is a way to do it on one layer/expression, I tried with a similar project (blinking cursor and everything, actually!) and I just ended up creating a second text layer with the source text sampling the original text. I’m not sure how you decided to create your blinking cursor and how the expressions are set up for you, but for…

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yeah that’s sometimes the only way to get stuff out the door, especially if it’s new territory. I found when I was messing with setStyle expressions (which was actually very recent which is why this thread peaked my interest) that there are some “unspoken rules”. For example I’m not sure how to stitch multiple strings together with different font…

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Not totally sure of how you’ve laid out your file in comparison to the tutorial, but if you are looking to get the indices of particular characters you could try the javascript search() method: https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_search.asp

then use that to setStyle on those particular characters that match.

My end-goal is to create a script that allows you to press a hotkey and “snap” or set the position of a selected layer to the position of your mouse cursor in the After Effects viewer. Basically I have to hand position a lot of elements or track things to video a lot and I would like to just press a button or click and have a layer snap to where…

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