EQ Animation using AE Expressions

Adobe After Effects Expressions Tutorial at Creative COW

Matthew Tompkins

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In this video tutorial Matt Tompkins gives some great tips on how to create and animate a rack of Graphic Equalizer bars using solely expressions in Adobe After Effects.

This tutorial is also available as a podcast.

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@Matthew Tompkins
by Matthew Tompkins

Also, I should add that there should be no space between the Greater Than (or Lesser Than) symbol and the Equal symbol.

Matt

Re: EQ Animation using AE Expressions
by Matthew Tompkins

Hi Harry,

It should work if you enter the following;

Eq = value + wiggle (8,70)
if (Eq >= 136) Eq = !value+100
if (Eq <= 0) Eq = !value + 5
Eq

Basically, the greater than or lesser than symbol has to appear before the equals symbol. Also, your second "if" on line 3 was capitalised. Once those two things are corrected it should work.

Hope that helps,

Matt

Re: EQ Animation using AE Expressions
by Harry Rambaut

Hello,

getting an error message on my slider expression whilst following Mathew Tompkins tutorial...

Eq = value + wiggle (8,70)
if (Eq > = 136) Eq = !value+100
If (Eq < = 0) Eq = !value + 5
Eq

double checked for typos but keeps coming up with error mesage..

error occured at line 2

thanks

H

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