[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Ben, could you please specify actual use case scenario? Meaning, do you still plan to define ‘first loop’ with keyframes, and then begin division from there? Or, as longs as it do what is suppose to – it doesn’t matter?

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Matteo, where you are copying those text layers? Is it a matter of ‘layer-copying as a whole’ or ‘layer’s text source’? As well as, why you are doing it?

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Dustin, there is definitely more than a single way to do anything like this! However, below questions will narrow down the topic:

1. Is maximum amount of data points limited to a certain number, or could be more than 10 entries?
2. Is example relevant only to bar charts or any other too? As for bars, their distances in between heights or widths matter, but for other types – its a different story.
3. How do you plan to ‘handle’ data file to AE?

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Kyung, sorry for my late response.

1. I would say yes!
2. Not sure about this one – could you clarify?
3. Having defined/fixed value is still better than re-calculating it to get the result (especially if its redundant). So yes, it should help.

Thanks!

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Austin, any chance you could share audiotrack sample or whole video piece together?

The reason why I see time-remapping a bit tricky out there, is that every ‘speed-up’ would have to be considered further down the line, in order to maintain normal speed of audio/video. Instead, it would be a lot better to do cuts in the comp. To make this happen, a script could be used – by building audio amplitude keyframes and then processing them accordingly.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Kyung, interesting insights out there. Few ideas to share, along to your question points:

1. Keyframed animation will be significantly less computation heavy than any of interpolated methods for animation. Simply because, every ‘expression related’ interpolation is recalculated every frame to inspect for changes.
2. If you have any animation happening to sourceRects, then setting inPoint only won’t get you anywhere – at other times it won’t be relative to animation (which you need, or not, depending on the setup)
3. Solution would be to trim down the comp as long as animation occurred. If it must stay as ‘on screen graphic’, then freezing frame after animation settles, could work out.

Cheers!

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Andrew,

do the following steps:

1. Apply expression to anchor point on the text layer:

sourceSize = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime(time, false);
T = sourceSize.top;
L = sourceSize.left;
W = sourceSize.width;
H = sourceSize.height;
([L+ W/2,T+H/2])

2. To make sure text is always in center, add this for position expression:

H = thisComp.height;
W = thisComp.width;
[W/2, H/2]

3. Apply expression for scaling:

layerW = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime(time).width;
compW = thisComp.width;
maxW = compW;
s = maxW / layerW * 100;
[s,s]

Assuming you have thisComp.name in text’s source, it will work regardless of text size. This works well enough from 3characters length. If shorter, it will exceed top boundaries and would require extra few lines into consideration. Good luck!

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Lance – is this feature required for opacity changes only?

If so, you can just create those keyframes by hand, and save animation as a preset. Then, load that preset into Kbar and you are good to go!

If not (thus more flexibility is needed, like placing this X frames gap on any selected property), then yes – its a matter of script build.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey AK, screenshot or sample .aep would help to guide you better, with less guessing.

Apart from that, few pin points:
1. Does text need to be the same size, or downscaling is preferred?
2. Do you prefer mask to increase the size as the length of text increases?
3. Have you applied any expressions to anchor point by now, or position?

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Otto, for audio layer/composition, add effect Audio > Stereo Mixer and apply expression to left & right levels, which:

1. Gets comp/layers duration based on your setup;
2. Uses linear interpolation linear() to fade audio from 100 to 0.

In order to help you further, please share screenshot of your comp, where layer is updated via plugin.

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