The keyframes from the example are made within AE. They are from AE effects. From the video, it doesn't look like you have access to the tween animation in AE. It is imported as footage, like a pre-rendered movie clip. *Martin ... View more

You can also use the puppet tool if you want to go crazy. I would check the deform effects beforehand. There a so many of them, one of them will make this. *Martin ... View more

You have to copy the script to Adobe After Effects <version>\Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels Path is the same on both plattforms (WIN and OSX). *Martin ... View more

You should also have a look at DaVinci Resolve. It has a quiet good tracker - but I have no glue about this software (last time we used it, my colleague did the tracking - he is really into it). *Martin ... View more

Also let me know if it is not working. I wrote the code from memory in the middle of the night. ... View more

Than go with time remap and expressions if it's easier for you. There are tutorials as well. *Martin ... View more

Sorry, my fault! I always mess the syntax for sliders, because I pig-whip them in most cases. letterfps = Math.floor(thisLayer.effect("letterfps")("Slider")); t = timeToFrames(time) % letterfps; This should work - if not, pig-whip the slider. You can choose Ricks solution and remake the typing-timing with time remap as he suggested - or take my solution and keyframe the slider. *Martin ... View more

I checked the line in which we grab the array from to text layer to calculate on and this should work: ranks = eval(thisComp.layer("test").text.sourceText); ranks.split(","); Cheers, Martin ... View more

Unfortunately you don't show the altered properties, so I can only guess. I see a lot of *.movs in the screenshot and didn't quiet understand your workaround. If you rendered the motion into a video file, import the video file and parent the videos to each other, nothing is following anything, because the video-layer isn't moving. How will AE know, what to move where, if it hasn't access to keyframes and position data? But your initial workflow sounds right. You take the land with the owls, add keyframes to create the floating motion - expressions should work, too - and connect the moths to the land-layer. Moth will follow the motion of the parent. If they have their own motion, it could be that they stay in place, because both motions cancel each other out. Also, if the motion of the parent is very subtile and slow, you won't see it if you combine it with a faster, agile motion of the moths. To resolve the issue for you, I suggest creating a new comp, add a square and 4 small circles. Add motion, make the parenting and if this is not working, make a video please (the best would be a video of creating the thing). I'm doing such this stuff on every project and never run into any issue. *Martin ... View more

Find a tutorial. A screenshot won't help you in no way, since both ways (AE and Premiere) require some steps to achieve a speed up and some further explanation. Better explained in a video - and tons of it are out there on youtube. *Martin ... View more

I agree with Rick Gerard​ : please learn the basics and ask real questions. At this point, a screenshot won't help you in no way and to ask for indicated that you have no glue what you are asking for. An Expression to imitate simple edits is complete nonsense. Please get started with After Effects and Premiere Pro tutorials. You'll find official one from Adobe and tons of it from other users at youtube. *Martin ... View more

You asked this already, too. But yes, you can do this with time remap and expressions. *Martin ... View more

You have asked this questions already, aren't you? I don't see any effect, just credits during the movie. If you can't image how one can cut in credits in a scene, please start with the basic tutorials of video editing. *Martin ... View more

What do you mean by "half shorter" - cut away the other half or double the speed? AE is not made for editing. Use Premiere instead. It must be a the Glory Pain On Earth so make jump cuts with time remap! *Martin ... View more

You can put the audio into a precomp and add a slider to it named "letterfps" for example. Next you activate time-remap and put an expression to it: letterfps = Math.floor(thisLayer.effect("Slider Control")("letterfps")); t = timeToFrames(time) % letterfps; This will repeat the audio every x frames, depending on what you set up the slider. It will cut off the audio, if the audio is longer than the frames you have set up (audio 10 frame, letterfps set to 5 frame = audio cut off and repeat after 5 frames). You can try to animate the slider, if the typewriter isn't linear (faster and slower writing). To increase automation, you'll need to look at the effect. There are selectors - start and end I think - and those numbers are in interest. You could analyze the numbers, calculate the increasing of the start selector and trigger a sound when it's happening. But to play the sound is a bit triggy this way and will return in slow processing code, especially on long comps. *Martin ... View more

Don't write you own sorting algorithm unless you have a smarter one. What data do you have and how would you order the players rank manually? I assume that there is a "score" data in the json. Something like player1: score 3456, player 2: score 4456 and so on. Higher score, higher rank. I never worked with json data driven animation, but you already managed to get those data into AE. The next step is to grab all those scores into an array.  Just saw a tutorial and in this it was only a matter of putting a line of code (the exact data address) into a text layer. In the example, he wrote "footage("players.json").dataValue([0,0,0])". To get this and all the others into an array, it should work like this (following the sample from the tutorial) - assuming that your score is always the 2nd data entry (If you show me your code, I can give you better help!): myarr = [footage("players.json").dataValue([0,0,0]), footage("players.json").dataValue([0,1,0]), footage("players.json").dataValue([0,1,0]), ...]; This should evaluate into something like myarr = [1542,4595,9784, ...] Now you can SORT those numbers, highest to lowest. myarr.sort(function(a, b) {      return b - a; }); Result is now myarr = [9784, 4595, 1542, ...] For performance reasons and "the fine order" I would outsource the sorting to a textlayer. Otherwise, you'll have to repeat the same and same calculation over and over again for all pre-comps, which is unnecessary. I assume that this is now onto a text layer called "Rank-Text-Layer". For each pre-comps position property, we will now grab your individual score, look it up in the sorted array and use the index of your score-in-array entry to determine, which null position we should take. Easy! //grab the array and write it's content to "ranks" - don't nail me on this line - did it before, but am not in front of AE right now ranks = eval(thisComp.layer("Rank-Text-Layer").text.sourceText.value); // get the score of this specific player / pre-comp like you did before myscore = ...              // look up your score in the sorted score array and return the index of it - aka the rank. // we need to add 1 because arrays start at 0, but ranks at 1 myrank = ranks.indexOf(myscore) + 1; // grab the positions of the nulls, because we are lazy - make sure that the seven nulls are the first 7 layers in your comp and // also that they lined up correctly! 1st null in layers stack = 1st rank. nulls = []; for (i = 1; i <= 7; i++){      null = thisComp.layer.transform.position;      nulls.push(null); }; // do the magic: we know the rank of this specific pre-comp. We grabbed the nulls from 1st rank to last, // so we can use myrank as index of nulls to get the position of the corresponding null // if the pre-comp is rank 3, it will take the position of 3rd null, which represent 3rd place. If it's rank 5, it is the 5th place and so on nulls[myrank]; Let me know, if this helps in any way! *Martin ... View more

Can you confirm, that you have the same issues as described in this post (there is also a video linked)? I can't open, create or save a file (windows 10) (After Effects 16.0.1) If so - and if you have more than 4 GB of Ram installed! - please contact Adobe Support and send a bug report: Feature Request/Bug Report Form *Martin ... View more

Can you provide more detailed information about your project, comp and asset sizes in particular? *Martin ... View more

Hmm... re-creating the effect with expressions only is not that easy. What's the issue with the preset? I thought it should exactly turns out as you wish. ... View more

It seems that at this point, nobody has a workaround. You should send in a bug report and contact Adobe Support. Feature Request/Bug Report Form Go back to the previous version, if this worked. *Martin ... View more

Do you have access to the rank? You can make the order completely automatic, if so. This doesn't sound very hard to make... You have 7 predefined places, therefore rank #1 = null1 = x,y of null 1 rank #2 = null2 = x,y of null 2 and so on... We can grab those positions, as I already wrote. Now every comp looks up it's rank and take the predefined position. Something like: myrank = *rank from json data or calculated*; pos1 = thisComp.layer("N_1").transform.position; if (myrank == 1) {myPosition = pos1}; // you can skip "myPosition", this is just for understanding, short version will be as written in my other post up there myPosition; // you can skip this in short version If the rank is not present, we can for sure calculate it with the score table. *Martin ... View more

Are there any effects on the layers? If not, have you tried the basics? - clear cache - reset preferences (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ae+preferences+reset ) - update GPU drivers - update AE - reinstall AE If you don't provide any system information, we can only guess what might be wrong. *Martin ... View more

Can you confirm to have the same issue as described here (there is also a video - have a look at it): https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2610703 ? *Martin ... View more

Holy! Just reviewed your video - you have only 4GB of RAM installed?? That's the lowest I've ever seen in connection to AE. I think this is even beyond Adobe recommendation - so no wonder everything is laggy and buggy. Have you ever managed to get AE run and render on this computer? If not - forget about everything I wrote and get yourself better hardware. *Martin ... View more

Can you deactivate the high-contrast mode of windows and set appearance to standard. Let's see if this changes anything. Install the latest updates of AE and GPU drivers. Reach out to Adobe support, too. *Martin ... View more

This looks complicated and wrong without having a closer look. Too much ifs, so much conditions. I would search for better code as soon as I start to create something like "if (a && b && c && d ...)". I'm sure there is a better way, but I didn't understand completely what you want to do. You have 7 nulls placed in your comp and want to place 7 comps at the same position, but variable, so the 7 comps can change position to each other? If so, why not just grabbing the 7 nulls position and use one slider (1 to 7) to set up specific position of each comp. slider =  thisComp.thisLayer.effect("Slider Control")("Slider"); pos1 = thisComp.layer("N_1").transform.position; // all the other 6 if (slider == 1){pos1} else if (slider == 2){pos2} // and so on // check syntax, i just wrote it from memory Is this what you wanted? If not, please explain again with more details. *Martin ... View more

Please make a screenshot of your comp - we need to see the parenting, modified properties, expressions. As a workaround you've could just add the new parent, without replacing the old one. Parent the new to the old and switch of the old one. Not the cleanest way, but when in a rush, the best without messing around. *Martin ... View more

Make sure caps lock is not activated - if shortcuts aren't working, check the shortcut settings. *Martin ... View more