Comments on: My 5 Favorite Expressions

By: geoff brown

geoff brown — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:31:24 +0000

thanks very much.
i especially appreciate the toComp script. very useful and fresh to me. BTW gorgeous site, cool clean and crisp.

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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:12:47 +0000

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By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:28:06 +0000

very handy Harry thank you!!!

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By: admin

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:00:57 +0000

Check out :

http://www.graymachine.com/2009/04/after-effects-expressions/

You can watch Lesson 1 for free!

By: Klas

Klas — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:46:15 +0000

Thanks!!
I´m one of those guys that can´t get my head around expressions
I use wiggle and random a lot but that´s about it.
Any suggestions on how to understand the language of expressions?

//Klas

By: admin

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:00:07 +0000

Thanks Suztv. Coincidentally, I am using this one a lot on the current project I am working on. It is definitely useful, and definitely would be in my next top 5.

By: Suztv

Suztv — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:23:18 +0000

You forgot one of the most basic and probably the most useful of all expressions:

loopOut(“Cycle”,0)

This lets you loop out keyframes on your timeline – extremely useful for long animations or comps or when you need an action to continue throughout the piece. I love using it with particles, pre-existing footage that is time-remapped, position, opacity… You name it. You can change the expression from endless to looping however many times by changing the “0″ to whatever number of times you need the item to loop. It sure beats copying and pasting keys!

By: tendest

tendest — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:52:10 +0000

Thanks ,dude

By: Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:18:06 +0000

I will explore this expression and see what they do. I’m not really familiar with them or how they work.
But will try them. THANKS!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:21:45 +0000

Hey steve. Thanks, I forgot to put that link to the original mograph post. I had asked Alan (Beaver) if he wanted credit for that expression, and he said “No way”. So, but it’s still good to reference the original. That’s the place I always used to go to grab that expression, and I finally got around to making a preset for it. It just always bugged me that the variables were in the middle of the expression.

By: John

John — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:26:45 +0000

Thanks Harry this is a great resource – been using expressions for a while, learning bits here and there. The autofade one will save me hours!