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May 23, 2014
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Automatically adding markers in AE?

  • May 23, 2014
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Can I add markers automatically everytime the source of a text changes, or everytime the value of SliderControl changes? If so, how do I do that?

Thank you!

Alex

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Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
May 23, 2014

Why markers? That's what keyframes are for and I fail to see why, with keyframes in place, you would need redundant markers just to clutter up the interface....

Mylenium

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AIMVideoAuthor
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May 23, 2014

Keyframes would work fine too. I thought of markers because I'd like to add a sound each time the text changes and already have a workaround for that. The text is just a counter controlled by a SliderControl effect. I do not have a keyframe for each change in numbers. And since the speed of the changing numbers varies a lot I don't like to go through that frame by frame to set a keyframe everytime the number changes. That's why I am looking for a automated way that gives me markers OR keyframes everytime the text or SliderControl value changes.

UQg
UQg
Legend
May 23, 2014

You can use an expression, in which case, at every frame of the animation, the expression will have to look back in time the time at which the most recent slider change occurred.

If speed is an issue you can write a small script that will detect those slider changes and set markers for you. But then it won't autoupdate and everytime you modify the slider stream you will need to run the script again to erase old / rewrite new markers.

Not necessarily faster in the end...

Xavier.

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