[Walter Soyka]

Have you tried clearing the cache? (Edit > Purge > All memory & disk cache…)

Failing that, can you share some screenshots of your complete UI so we can see what you are seeing?

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[Walter Soyka]

You need a loopable wiggle:
https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/looping-wiggle.html

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[Walter Soyka]

What’s your familiarity level with After Effects?

You’ll need to understand shape layers, keyframing, and parenting.

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[Walter Soyka]

Nuke Indie is based on Nuke Studio, so it’s comparable to Fusion + Resolve.

Nuke arguably leads on some of the basics like paint and tracking, has much better multichannel support, and has much saner color management. Nuke has a big community at Nukepedia behind it, with all kinds of free gizmos. I know how unpopular this term can be here, but it’s the industry standard for compositing, and if you want to work as a compositor, you have to know Nuke.

Fusion has some great ideas, too; it’s pretty fast, it’s resolution independence is really neat, and it’s got a nice, fast, flexible 3D space. The biggest differentiator? Fusion has Blackmagic Design. If you’re already into Resolve, or if you are price sensitive, it’s a great choice. (BMD’s storied pace of development remains to be seen as a strength of Fusion.)

I think that Nuke Indie is meant to be an on-ramp for people to the larger Nuke ecosystem, moreso than an actual standalone product. Some of the biggest benefits of Nuke over Fusion is on the pipeline side, but that’s a non-starter with Indie because there’s no scripting. Nuke Indie files are encrypted and cannot be read by standard Nuke licenses, so collaboration isn’t possible.

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[Walter Soyka]

Nuke Indie is $499 annually, not monthly. It’s vastly more competitive for single-person shops than the full Nuke offering is (although there are some significant limitations around resolution (4K) and scripting/third-party plugins).

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[Walter Soyka]

You still need to apply the style after you get it — and explicitly keep the original text. This should work:
var sourceTextProperty = thisComp.layer("MAIN TEXT").text.sourceText;
var newStyle = sourceTextProperty.getStyleAt(0,0);
newStyle.setText(sourceTextProperty);
newStyle.setText(value);


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[Walter Soyka]

I stand corrected! You could use this expression on each text layer that you want to receive styling from another layer:

// Accessing the style object of a specific text layer
thisComp.layer("Other Layer Name").text.sourceText.style;

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[Walter Soyka]

QuickLook does have a little scrub bar.

VLC is a good open-source media player you could use.

If I need to fly through a lot of videos, though, I’ll usually just open up Premiere and scrub around with the Media Browser.

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[Walter Soyka]

No. Text attributes like typeface cannot be changed over time, so there’s no way to control them with expressions.

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[Walter Soyka]

Simon, I just watched your video — well done as always!

Since you’ve already broken your vow, could you talk a little bit about your transition from prototype to production?

Is your client in with you on the process, or do you keep the prototype to yourself? Do you always go from prototype to production, or do you find yourself going back and forth a lot? Do you ever struggle to get your production work polished enough to best the prototype?

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