[Toma Ever]

Here is how I got it to work, simply trash cinema4d lite!

So first close AE, trash your preferences, navigate to the Plug-ins folder and in Cineware/(cineware support)/bin, trash the app

Then when restarting AE, and importing a C4D file, it will pop up some error messages; change the render engine in the Options of cineware, restart, purge and it works

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random() and posterize() ?

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[Toma Ever]

try to open the project file in AME directly, I dont think it is worth writing a script to save you 1 mouse click

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[Toma Ever]

No need to use complicated expressions

dont try moving pins + layer position together, it won’t work properly;
you need to pre comp the layer on which you applied puppet tool to move it around. Then create a set of nulls in your final comp that links the effects> Puppet> Mesh 1> Deform> Puppet pin… in the pre comp.
comp("_main").layer("Null 1").transform.position

Adjust the anchor point on the precomposed arm and parent the nulls to it.

You can also get one of the scripts that will automate the setup here:
https://aescripts.com/puppettools/
https://aescripts.com/leemsanimationtools/

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[Toma Ever]

if you parent all texts to a null, and add on the anchor point an expression like this:
var w1= thisComp.layer(“text1”).sourceRectAtTime().width;
var w2 = thisComp.layer(“text2”).sourceRectAtTime().width;
var w3 = thisComp.layer(“text3”).sourceRectAtTime().width;
[(thisComp.width-(w1+w2+w3))/2,value[1]]

should work

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yes, i was hoping for a transition plugin, a fxfactory or universe crap, client is awfully cheap, i dont really have the time to do it myself.

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Math.floor(time/60)*6 ?

[Toma Ever]

no expressions,
use a text animator with opacity and color animator, choose end opacity and end color
select range selector> advanced> randomize order
change end point or start point and animate offset with keyframes

good luck

[Toma Ever]

(N/5-Math.floor(N/5))*5

ayay!

[Toma Ever]

console message:
7/29/13 4:18:41.479 PM Adobe QT32 Server[9221]: Error loading /Library/QuickTime/LiveType.component/Contents/MacOS/LiveType: dlopen(/Library/QuickTime/LiveType.component/Contents/MacOS/LiveType, 262): Library not loaded: /Library/Application Support/ProApps/SharedA/Frameworks/LiveType.framework/Versions/A/LiveType
Referenced from: /Library/QuickTime/LiveType.component/Contents/MacOS/LiveType
Reason: image not found

don’t have livetype installed, that’s weird! but I have copied quicktime codecs from another computer into my fresh install of osx 1.8.4 on macbook pro retina. Could that be the issue ? I see a livetype.component, i copied it by accident, now deleted. Will see how it goes for my next renders…