Weird - I've just tried rebuilding it in a new project and it works fine!  So I saved it as an animation preset, returned to the original project I was trying to use it in and applied the preset, and it fails...

Screengrab of the error here:  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1388508/textexpressionerror.jpg

Bizarre!

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On 24 July 2014 12:09, angie@angietaylor.co.uk <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

PS I removed the unnecessary step of adding Anchor Point animator as the anchor for Rotation can be adjusted in the More Options > Grouping Alignment settings :-)

On 24 Jul 2014, at 12:07, angie <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Just tried it out and it works for me. Here’s my setup.

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On 24 Jul 2014, at 11:31, Phil Bearman <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to use an expression in a text animation, but getting a (non specific) syntax error after it runs for a few frames (the name of frames before it throws up the error seems to be variable).

The expression is:

swings=3; 

timeOffset=0.25; 

v=valueAtTime(time-timeOffset*textIndex/textTotal)[0]; 

anim=2*Math.PI*v/100; 

amp=easeOut(v,0,100,100,0); 

Math.cos(anim*swings)*amp;

Applied to the 'Amount' in the expression selector.

It's based on these instructions:  http://www.motion-graphics-exchange.com/after-effects/3D-swing-in-pendulum-text/4ad3a609eafd3

It works fine if I base it on Words, but if I base it on Lines it fails. Any suggestions for why this might throw up a syntax error like this?

Any help much appreciated as always!

Phil

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