AWESOME After Effects Expression | Adobe After Effects Tutorial

[@Kalendrim]

Great tutorial! I can already imagine a number of uses for it.

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

thanks for watching

[@pixelrubbish]

Saving this one for later, such a useful reference!

[@SiHargreaves]

New favourite channel! You might regret making your vids 7 minutes long though when you wanna monetise your channel and can't add any mid-roll ads ha

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

The video itself usually goes long enough. The tutorial is 7 minutes bu that doesn't include intros and outros. Thanks so much for. watching

[@UlyssesStudios]

Excellent. Very useful tutorial. Thanks a lot

[@WoozyStudios]

appreciate this tutorial brotha!! great stuff

[@LC-yo3bj]

Dude that was extremely helpful and succinct thank you

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

Thanks so much !

[@LC-yo3bj]

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[@theccft]

What font do you use? It’s sooo perfect

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

Thanks! It's Gotham Narrow. I use the Ultra font weight. Gotham is my favorite font

[@italyrocks324]

Great tutorial. Thanks!

[@dorukanc]

Thanks for the tutorial

[@mxtr4673]

Super useful! What if I need to do the same effect but with one long text layer divided to lines and I want to control speed (time between each line)?

[@andrel4428]

Man, I wish this is tutorial available on Adobe Premiere. I'm struggling because in Premiere Pro you can't seem to copy the keyframe to multiple texts (In the same clip) and have to do everything manually and not precisely the same effect each text.

[@mirajbhut1741]

That was great but we can create one Text animation clip and then just duplicate other 5 copies, change the content and just slide then apart so that the motion is consicutive.

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

You can do that, but the message of this tutorial was controlling all of them with two keyframes and some expressions

[@LC-yo3bj]

Got this to work, thanks again. I tried adding Opacity 0-100 keyframes, so they would fade in with the Xposition value change... I couldn't figure out how to do it. I tried just kind of duplicating the process of Xposition but with opacity, and it doesn't seem to take... should that work or am I trying the wrong process? Thanks!

[@steveh718]

4:41 Could you add a similar 'position slider' for Y and call it "SPACING".

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

I'll work this into another tutorial. Thanks1

[@contactojaime]

Thank you so much!! i was literally for weeks looking for a solution for an animation that i want to do and this is so close. If you don´t mind, can you help me with my idea: i just need that in the first place, but how do a make this: for example, once i have complete the text list, i want to move the first layer up (in Y axis) and then, all the rests of the layers follow this layer but with a little delay?. Like they were attached to each others but with a elastic string. I don´t know if a can explain my self. Anyway, you are so helpful. Thanks again.

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

With dimensions separated, animate the first line on the Y axis the way you want it. Then pickwhip layer 2's Y axis to layer 1 - you should be able to apply the valueatTime expression to the second layer's Y axis. Copy the expression and add it to the other. layers. This should. result in the effect you want with layer. 1 animating up on the Y axis, and the other layers following. Let me know if that works. If not, I can take a deeper look at it. Hope that helps.

[@contactojaime]

@@7MinuteAETutorials Thank you very much. I´m looking for the correct way to use the valueAtTime. Thanks for your time

[@steveloudon7491]

I'm pretty new to this. You said the expressions could be saved as a preset. How do you do that? Or you can direct me to a tutorial that you've done on that subject. Thanks.

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

Highlight the property with the expression and then go to tab on the top tool bar for ANIMATION and choose SAVE ANIMATION PRESET - you can put it in your User Presets and use it on other layers.

[@steveloudon7491]

@@7MinuteAETutorials thank you

[@nightfury5462]

An expression disabled error shows while using the ( index-1) expression... thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.xPosition.valueAtTime(time-thisComp.layer("SPEED").effect("Slider Control")("Slider")

[@babybarndiscounts7423]

i can only see one pick whip option but not for position :(

[@teachingyoungpedro]

this seems to have a big flaw, the text is always centered. I guess you knew that and that's why you used the same text in the list? It looks bad when the text is centered, it should be left aligned. This becomes apparent when the text is different in each line. Any easy way to fix that?

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

Left-justify your text in the Character Control Panel

[@teachingyoungpedro]

@@7MinuteAETutorials boy do I feel dumb 😅 your suggestion worked. Before I was just trying to align the text. Sorry about jumping to conclusions and thank you for taking the time to reply.

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

@@teachingyoungpedro no worries at all. This channel is all about learning. Glad it worked out for you, and thanks for watching!

[@utkonosperry9346]

I don't have pick whips on dimension values. Is it possible to connect X dimension values in 2018 version of After Effects?

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

Try the following expression: thisComp.layer("TYPE THE NAME. OF THE PARENT LAYER").transform.xPosition Let me know if this works

[@utkonosperry9346]

@@7MinuteAETutorials button pick whip appeared, when I opened expression. 👌 Thanks a lot

[@rubenleyton5147]

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