ChurchMediaDesign.tv - Tip's, Trick's and How To's for the Church Media Designer

This week we continue our series on Click Track Videos by heading into After Effects and playing with some expressions to bring in our text. We also get inspired by the Drive Conference announcements and get another great freebie!

Stockpile:
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How to:
setting up a extrenal text document

What you text doc should look it:
Verse1 = ["verse pat one text""verse part two text"]
Hits1 = “Split up text word by word”;

\n\r = adds a line break to your text document

First expression which uses the Verse1 line from your text document:

if ($.os.indexOf(“Mac”) != -1)
myPath = “/Expressions/”;
else
myPath = “file://c:\\\\Expressions\\”;

myPath += “nameOfYourTextFile.txt”;

$.evalFile (myPath);

eval(thisComp.name)[thisLayer.index-1];

Second expression which uses the Hits1 line from your text document:

if ($.os.indexOf(“Mac”) != -1)
myPath = “/Expressions/”;
else
myPath = “file://c:\\\\Expressions\\”;

myPath += “nameOfYourTextFile.txt”;

$.evalFile (myPath);

splitVar = eval(thisComp.name);
splitWord = splitVar.split(” “);
splitWord[thisLayer.index-1]

Inspiration
North Pointe Drive Conference Announcments

Freebie: Red and Yellow Circles

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