[Sam Andrews]

Hi Dwayne,
Thanks for your help. Those are some great questions. It looks like there are some issues I haven’t realized yet. It looks like I have a lot more work to do.

Thanks again for your help, Dwayne.

[Sam Andrews]

Hi Darby,
Everything worked out perfectly. Not only did I get exactly the result I was hoping for, but I got my hands a bit dirty with expressions, which was a great way to learn.

So thanks so much for all your help, Darby. And thanks to everyone else who chimed in with their wonderful suggestions and help.

— Sam

[Sam Andrews]

Hi Darby,
Thanks so much! That sounds very much like the exact thing I was looking for.

As I’m still a bit new to After Effects, I’m not incredibly hot at expressions. I’ll have to go do some more in-depth learning about it before I try your solution. I’m the kind of guy that would like to know what each of those parameters do before I try them out (for instance, I’m so green that I don’t even know whether the “x” in your expression is an actual value, or whether it’s just a placeholder for something that I’ll need to manually fill in). I’ve just Googled some decent looking websites dedicated to expressions, so that should give me something to sink my teeth into later tonight, letting me dissect your code.

Thanks again, Darby. I sincerely appreciate it. I’ll get back to you in a day or two to let you know how I got on.

— Sam

[Sam Andrews]

Hi Brian,
Thanks so much for your quick help, I appreciate it.

I probably didn’t explain myself well enough because your solution – while being awesome – doesn’t quite solve my issue. The only problem with that technique is that it looks like a transition between two titles rather than the effects themselves slowly stopping. Some of the effects (like wiggle and whatnot) cause the title to no longer be perfectly centered on the screen, so it looks like a fade between the old-timey title and unaffected title. And I guess that’s because it IS a fade between the old-timey title and unaffected title.

Do you (or anyone else) happen to know how I can make it look like the effects themselves taper off rather than their opacity lowered?

Thanks again, Brian!

— Sam