PS. The same as “constant” in motion…

@bbalser What Laurie tried to explain is the situation where the keyframe can be changed into a “hold” keyframe (as in: hold value). In AE and Premiere, a hold keyframe keeps its value exactly the same until the next keyframe, eliminating the transition between them. The value stays frozen and then jumps instantly to the new value. These keyframes…

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Thank you very much, John. Very much appreciated!

As this is not ending up as a singular element, I am trying to solve this with as little key framing as possible. That’s why I am trying to find a solution that targets the copies directly. But if not, I’ll need to resort to masking or other key framing solutions.

Hey fellow motioneers,

I have a leaf shape with a repeater set to 10 copies. These are offset and transformed with wiggle transform (wiggles/sec set to 0), so now I have a line of static leaves blown in the wind. Now I want to individually turn these on and off so they appear and disappear one by one so that I only see 1 or 2 at a time – but I’m…

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That was perfect and totally what I intended in the beginning. The extending both ways part came later when I realized it could be extremely practical.

Thank you so so much for all your help – past, present and future 🙂

If I may follow up on this, could you – or someone else who can – explain to me the modulo operation? I still am not sure if I can wrap my head around it.

t = time%key(numKeys).time;

Let me try though:

– take the duration spanning all keyframes of the current property:

key(numKeys).time

– let “t” loop from 0 to x in time increments every time the abov…

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It works like a charm! Thank you so, so much, Dan!

Weird. Further trying to extend the possibilities I tried to also place the same script into the “end trim” parameter. But there the value of keys 1 and 2 is changed to the value of the script result and key #3 gets the value of keys 1 and 2. So it seems to be offset!? But even changing the key(#) values never returns the correct result… so…

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If easily possible, yes.

Of course it’s possible to offset them to the left and out of sight, but this way it would be clearer to see what’s happening. Didn’t think about it at first but quickly changed the loopOut to loopIn and Out

If I may further ask for your assistance, is there a way to modify it so it also does a loopIn as this would further make randomizing easier? trying to still wrap my head around the modulo in this instance.

Now if I manage to use the expression function of the “flow” plugin alongside it instead of linear or ease, this will be amazing. I guess I badly need to enhance my coding skills in some way.

As always – “Dan, the man”! Thank you very much! This works as intended for me. I somehow have to be able to wrap my head around how to use modulo to its full extent.

Hey Hector, thank you very much for your response. Sadly I wasn’t able to follow the steps you described.

2 In the expression editor, select the keyframe you want to modify (in this case, the middle keyframe).

> How would I be able to select a keyframe “in” the editor? The editor is just for text entry afaik.

3 Click the pick whip tool (the squiggly…

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Sorry to bringing this one up again, as there have been similar problems all over. I just can’t figure out a solution for my specific problem.

The problem is how to add a loopOut expression to a set of keyframes while having a linear expression modifying one of the keyframes.

So.

I have this keyframed setup for a shape line trim with all three…

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Thank you Ben, I will try that. Maybe it’s stretching out the cloned layer that will do the trick. Right now my cloned layer only has the blur which extends visibly to the left and right, but the layer itself has the same size as its parent. The blur works / shows up inside motion but doesn’t translate to fcpx.

Fellow Motion Users,

I am trying to set up an effect that I could drop onto a clip, that would create a blur outside of the source material.

Or if there is a way to create an overlaying layer that generates it for the complete project underneath like adjustment layers in PS or AE.

I am trying to achieve an ambilight-like extension of the footage. So…

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Hi Dan, it seems to do the trick to paste the code, then mark all, then set the Textstile to code. Doing it the other way round creates the double returns for me, too. (see above)

seedRandom(index, true);
colSwtCTRL_Layer = comp("Col Swatches SELECTOR").layer("GLOBAL COL CTRL Outlines");
colSwt_Layer = colSwtCTRL_Layer.effect("Layer Control")("Layer");
cFROM = colSwtCTRL_Layer.effect("Color Swatches – Select FROM")("Slider");
cTO = colSwtCTRL_Layer.effect("Color Swatches – Select TO")("Slider");
maxSWATCHES = col…

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Sorry – I’m not sure – for me it just works like that.

I’m on a mac, copying / pasting straight from AE and then marking the text and styling it after having it pasted

It could differ depending on the source / origin app of the copied text maybe? Or if you start the style first and then paste/ type into the code style and not the other way rou…

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// Color Swatch Picker
// shuffle array function
function shuffle(a) {
  seedRandom(index,true);
  for (i = a.length - 1; i > 0; i--) {
    j = Math.floor(random() * (i + 1));
    temp = a[i];
    a[i] = a[j];
    a[j] = temp;
  }
}
// define variables
colSwtCTRL_Layer = comp("Col Swatches SELECTOR").layer("GLOBAL COL CTRL Outlines");
colSwt_Layer =…

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Oh wow… it can be so simple a script, if you know what you’re doing 😅 I was fighting with while / if / for loops but this … oh my. Thank you!!!!

ended up doing the following and it works perfectly!

t = Math.floor(time-inPoint);
c = array[t%array.length]
colSwt_Layer.content(c).content("Fill 1").color;

Dan, thanks a million!

I am almost getting it to work. I now stumbled across a situation where the swatches are less than the cycles it goes through, thus needing to start the count through the array again.

Will need to fiddle with this. But this is the perfect direction for it! Thank you!

Ok I partially figured it out with help of a different post. But now : is there a way to make sure a number is not used twice or at least not twice right behind each other?

// Color Swatch Picker
var holdTime = 1;
seedRandom(Math.floor(time/holdTime), timeless = true); 
// seedRandom(index, true);
colSwtCTRL_Layer = comp("Col Swatches…

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Hi expression masters,

I have an array of color swatches from which I want to pick a random color to change a fill color every second. Right now I manage to step through all iterations, but I’d like to randomize the order – and if possible never pick the same color twice.

Any ideas?

Thanks a ton!

Patrick

// Color Swatch Picker
seedRandom(index, t…

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aaaah! I tried the “numProperties” reference before, but it didn’t work (gave me a number that wasn’t correct). Maybe I had it linked wrong or some other reference before or between layer and content.

Thanks Dan, you’re a life saver! This totally did it!

Hello smart folk,

is there any way how I can count the amount of shapes in a shape layer? I have shape layers which contain an X amount of squares. I can address the fill of each shape for example by counting through x:

thisLayer.content(x).content("Fill 1").color;

But how do I find out the maximum number of “content”?

(I did not group the shapes so I…

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Hi Andre, tbh, I don’t see the pixelation. Maybe you can mark it in the screenshot!?

Only thing I noticed is that you’re comparing a 200% with a 66% view, so for us, it’s hard to tell what it should look like.. but maybe that’s already the solution? Set both to 100% and compare again.

Try not using the offset, but the start/ end values for fade in/out stuff. The offset is if you set a range and want to move text parts … something like that: ooooooOOOOoo — oOOOOooooooo

you can export and package a copy of that timeline if you like and send it over. I can dig into it.

Hi! It is hard to tell for me from this point, what should it look like at the end? That might help. To figure out what is going on.

EDIT: I would check if the pre-comps are set perfectly – cropped to IN OUT points / same length? First and Last keyframes checked in the pre-comp? Maybe also just reset the loop to see if there is a difference. also,…

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