[Steve Waldron]

Hi, thanks for both replies, I’m kinda glad it’s not just me.
In response to Kevin’s questions, it seems to be all programs, for instance it’s usually a word document or e-mail but this one right now is powerpoint, I’ve just tested it further by pasting the text into photoshop – which worked, and then copying it again from there into AE – no luck.

Also, I have tried replacing current text or pasting in new stuff, no change, it’s seemingly random as some days it works a charm, very odd.

[Steve Waldron]

There’s a pretty good short tutorial on AE Tuts for this kind of thing:
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/design-rhythmic-motion-typography-in-after-effects/

(I’m now a little worried that I’ve got from asking questions constantly to potentially helping someone….. this feels strange, who knows how the regular guys cope?!)

[Steve Waldron]

Hi guys just a quick question on the revisit on this. It’s all working great but in my attempt to futher my knoweldge of expressions I took a bit of inspiration from Dans code and was wondering if it was possible.

Dan uses a $ sign at the start, I was wondering if I could use an M at the end to show it as metres?

I have tried changing the line of code:
if(dollarSign) prefix += “$”;

to:
if(dollarSign) sufix += “m”;

Which doesn’t work, but I am just guessing at the code. Anyone have any better ideas?

Thanks again guys, I really want to get into expressions more as they certainly do the job!

[Steve Waldron]

Wow – you’re all very kind to help me out like this.

Thank you very much indeed. I will give this a shot and let you know.

Thanks again, very grateful!

[Steve Waldron]

Thought this may be the case. Was just checking to try and save someone a job.

Thanks for the help Dave.

[Steve Waldron]

Well it goes on to someone to convert/compress it and then onto the web, my concern was that I’d be passing the problem along when I could easily fix it.

[Steve Waldron]

Thanks, I’ll give that a try. It’s in the distance so I should get away with it.

Thanks again Chris!

[Steve Waldron]

Thanks for the feedback guys, I’ll explore both options now, yesterday I settled for creating a secondary particle system which was just “random still frames” which I rotated within particular, it kind of worked but not as well as the original.

Thanks again for the feedback on this.

[Steve Waldron]

Ok Dave thanks again for the advice. I’m going to have to start giving you a percentage of my wage!

I’ll keep you all posted of course 😀

[Steve Waldron]

No, most graphical assets created within AE. Some are photoshop files which are quite large…. but not massive.

I have reinstalled AE now and it seems to have helped….

hmmm