[Pete Menich]

nice. that looks much better!

[Pete Menich]

Het Filip,

I suspected as much. 😞

But thank you for confirming.

Pete

[Pete Menich]

This seems to do the pause thing…

spd = effect("speed")("Slider");  // pixels per second
pause = effect("pause")("Slider"); // pause divider
startIndex = 3;
endIndex = 7;
curIndex = startIndex;
accumTime = prevAccum = 0;
while (accumTime <= time){
	curLayer = thisComp.layer(curIndex);
	preLayer = thisComp.layer(curIndex+1);
	curRect = curLayer.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);
	curPos = curLayer.toComp([curRect.left+curRect.width/2, curRect.top+curRect.height/2]);
	nextLayer = thisComp.layer(curIndex+1);
	nextRect = nextLayer.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);
	nextPos = nextLayer.toComp([nextRect.left+nextRect.width/2, nextRect.top+nextRect.height/2]);
	v = nextPos - curPos;
	dist = length(v);
	moveDur = dist/spd;
	pauseDur = 1 + (preLayer.content("Group 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").size[1] / pause);
	totalDur = moveDur + pauseDur;
	prevAccum = accumTime;
	accumTime += totalDur;
	curIndex++;
	if (curIndex >= endIndex) break;
}
delta = time - prevAccum;
delta > moveDur ? nextPos : curPos + normalize(v)*ease(delta,0,moveDur,0,dist);

[Pete Menich]

Hey Dan, Amazing!

The only thing I forgot to mention is that I need it in 3D 😬 – as I’m parenting a camera to the null.

I seems to work though if the Null stays 2D.

The dynamic pause is required because the boxes contain text, so the bigger the boxes Y dimension, the more text the box contains and the longer you need to read it.

Obviously, ChatGTP can’t compete with the Ebbert’s brain!

[Pete Menich]

this kind of works, but the transition and pause duration are not dynamic…

// Set the duration of each transition and pause period in seconds
transitionDuration = 2;
pauseDuration = 2;
// Define the start and end layer indices
startLayerIndex = 3; // Change this to match the index of the starting layer
endLayerIndex = 7; // Change this to match the index of the ending layer
// Calculate the total number of transitions
totalTransitions = endLayerIndex - startLayerIndex;
// Calculate the current transition index based on the current time
currentTransitionIndex = Math.min(Math.floor((time - inPoint) / (transitionDuration + pauseDuration)), totalTransitions - 1);
// Calculate the start and end layers for the current transition
startLayer = thisComp.layer(startLayerIndex + currentTransitionIndex);
endLayer = thisComp.layer(startLayerIndex + currentTransitionIndex + 1);
startPos = startLayer.transform.position;
endPos = endLayer.transform.position;
// Calculate the time elapsed since the start of the current transition
transitionStartTime = currentTransitionIndex * (transitionDuration + pauseDuration);
transitionElapsedTime = time - inPoint - transitionStartTime;
// Use an ease function to animate from the start position to the end position
ease(transitionElapsedTime, 0, transitionDuration, startPos, endPos);

[Pete Menich]

Yeah I got it working in the end with…

m = thisComp.layer("Captions");
n=0;
fs = text.sourceText.style.fontSize * 1000/effect("boxWidth")("Slider");
if (m.marker.numKeys > 0){
  n = m.marker.nearestKey(time).index;
  if (m.marker.key(n).time > time) n--;
}
if (n > 0)
	{text.sourceText.createStyle().setFontSize(fs).setText(m.marker.key(n).comment);
}else{
	text.sourceText.createStyle().setFontSize(fs).setText("");
}

I’m just goofing around making a flexible subs generator.

[Pete Menich]

As always, amazing! Works like a charm.

Is there a way that if after its been split over two lines and it’s still too long, that it could be split over 3, and then 4 lines etc etc

I’ve also been trying to use this script….

https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/paragraph-bouding-control/

but as my text is being driven by marker comments, it doesn’t work.

P

Paragraph bouding control

[Pete Menich]

I’ve been trying something similar by hacking the original expression in this thread to get a subtitle to add a line break if the width of the text object goes above a certain length.

This seems to be working…

txt = thisComp.layer("Captions").text.sourceText;
dist = thisComp.layer("Captions").sourceRectAtTime().width;
Wguide = thisComp.layer("width guide").effect("Slider Control")("Slider")
len = txt.length;
if (dist > Wguide){
	n = len / 2;
}else{
	n = len;
}
outStr = "";
newLine = ""
splt = txt.split(" ")
for (i = 0; i < splt.length; i++){
if ((newLine + " " + splt[i]).length > n){
if (outStr != "") outStr += "\r";
outStr += newLine;
newLine = splt[i];
}else{
if (newLine != "") newLine += " ";
newLine += splt[i];
}
}
if (newLine != ""){
if (outStr != "") outStr += "\r";
outStr += newLine;
}
outStr;

Except sometimes it splits the text over 3 lines when 2 will do – any suggestions?

[Pete Menich]

Amazing as always Dan!

(you’d think by now I’d know this stuff!)

Thank you.

[Pete Menich]

weird. Now it works. Amazing!

Thanks Filip