Delay multiple comps with random start times

[barbarah92217474]

Hi,

I am a complete newbie to AE expressions. I have 24 comps that I don't want them all to start to play at the same time, I would like them to start randomly, essentially randomly delay each comp by a few seconds. I don't want to stagger the comps as the project may grow and I would rather use an expression if possible.

I found the code below but I am getting an error. Can someone please advise me? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

//time remap

delay = 5;

framerate = 25;

n = name - 1;

d = n*(delay)/framerate;

t = thisLayer.timeRemap.valueAtTime(time-d);

[t]

[Airweb_AE]

name is the layer’s name, so:

n = DAY 1 - 1;

can't return a number.

You must either rename your layer (1, 2, 3, 4, 5...)

or extract the number from the layer’s name.

n = Number(name.split(' ')[1]) - 1;

[barbarah92217474 · Accepted solution]

Thank you so much for replying! I have added the code as per below but it doesn't seem to delay the comp playing in any way. Maybe I'm doing something esle wrong or maybe using the wrong approach?

//time remap

delay = 5;

framerate = 25;

n = Number(name.split(' ')[1]) - 1;

d = n*(delay)/framerate;

t = thisLayer.timeRemap.valueAtTime(time-d);

[t]

[Airweb_AE]

delay = Number(name.split(' ')[1]) - 1;
time - delay

Should be enough

[barbarah92217474]

Perfect, thank you so much for all your help!!!

Correct code is below for anyone else:

//time remap

delay = 2;

framerate = 25;

n = Number(name.split(' ')[1]) - 1;

d = n*(delay)/framerate;

t = thisLayer.timeRemap.valueAtTime(time - delay);

[t]