Like this maybe: freq = 3; amp = 200; hold = .5; t = Math.floor(time/hold)*hold; wiggle(freq,amp,1,.5,t) ... View more

This example will create a text layer and set it to normal caps: var myComp = app.project.activeItem; var myTextLayer = myComp.layers.addText("Text"); var mySourceText = myTextLayer.property("ADBE Text Properties").property("ADBE Text Document"); var myTextDoc = mySourceText.value; myTextDoc.fontCapsOption = FontCapsOption.FONT_NORMAL_CAPS; mySourceText.setValue(myTextDoc); ... View more

There are optional parameters you can supply to specify how many decimal places (fraction digits), so this would be like toFixed(0): s = effect("Slider Control")("Slider").value; s.toLocaleString("en-US",{minimumFractionDigits: 0,maximumFractionDigits: 0}) de  ... View more

If I'm interpreting what you're asking correctly, you would enable time remapping, move the CTI to 2 seconds and click Time Remap diamond to create a keyframe there, and then use a Time Remap expression like this: t = time%(key(3).time - key(2).time); key(2).time + t ... View more

My guess is that you have the expressions engine set to Legacy ExtendScript in your project settings. ... View more

If you have a shape layer with a path, you could try an expression like this for the path property: freq = 3; amp = 30; p = thisProperty; pts = p.points(); newPts = []; for (i = 0; i < pts.length; i++){ seedRandom(i,true); w = position.wiggle(freq,amp) - position; newPts.push([pts[i][0] + w[0],pts[i][1] + w[1]]); } p.createPath(newPts,p.inTangents(),p.outTangents(),p.isClosed()) ... View more

Wow, sorry. That was some bad typing on my part. Try this: amp = 10; freq = 1; tStart = thisComp.layer("excuse line").content("Trim Paths 1").start.key(2).time; t = Math.max(time - tStart,0); y = amp*Math.sin(t*freq*Math.PI*2); value + [0,y] ... View more

Instead of applying the expression to the layer's Opacity, you need to apply it to each Polystar's individual Transform Polystar > Opacity property. ... View more

Adding ease to the functionality of your expression ups the complexity considerably because the expression now needs to know how long it's been since its rank has changed. In many cases, this info is not easily obtained. Your expression may have to go back in time, frame-by-frame to discover when its rank changed and subtract that time from the current time to calculate how far along it is in the ease operaion. You should only have to go back as far as transitionDuration because if it goes that far back and its rank hasn't changed, it can safely assume that it should be settled in at its current rank. There may be simplifications available, depending on how and when the sliders can change, but what I've described should work in the worst-case scenario. There could be additional complications though, if the layer's rank can change more than once during a single transitionDuration period. ... View more

I think something like this should work: comp("Scene " + thisComp.name.split(" ").pop()).layer("Taylor Animation Control").effect("L Arm")("Angle") ... View more

You could try something like this: speaker1 = thisComp.layer("speaker1").effect("Both Channels")("Slider"); threshold = 3; gap = 20; val = 100; if (speaker1 < threshold){ for (i = 1; i < gap; i++){ if (speaker1.valueAtTime(time - framesToTime(i)) >= threshold) break; } if (i == gap){ val = 0; } } val ... View more

For scripts to show up in the Window menu, you have to put them in AE's ScriptUI Panels folder, which, for Mac, is at: After Effects/Scripts/ScriptUI Panels and for Windows, is at: After Effects/Support Files/Scripts/ScriptUI Panels. ... View more