Extended Tutorial: 99% Procedural Kinetic Type Loop in After Effects

Описание: In this After Effects tutorial, I’ll show you how to build a seamless looping kinetic type animation, inspired by this post I saw on the motion design subreddit:

  / help_anyone_knows_how_to_do_this  

We’ll go step by step through setting up text animators, adding procedural controls, and using expressions to handle anchor point shifts, time remapping, and distribution.

The end result is a flexible looping setup you can duplicate and tweak endlessly—no messy keyframe wrangling required.

If you’re into kinetic typography or just want to expand your After Effects expression skills, this is a really fun project to dive into.

Enjoy!

(And if you know a cleaner way to procedurally switch text justification, let me know in the comments - I couldn’t quite crack it)

*This is a longer version of a tutorial I posted to The Video Shop. This is the first time I’m trialling two versions, based on feedback that some viewers hate anything superfluous, but others prefer a deeper dive.
*Let me know if it works for you, and if you have any suggestions for improvements.

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EXPRESSIONS:
(replace any instances of "＞" or “＜” with "greater than" or “less than” sign)

► Text Layer Anchor Point:

useExtents = false;
st = thisLayer.text.sourceText;
t = time;
if (st.numKeys ＞ 0){
idx = st.nearestKey(time).index;
if (st.key(idx).time ＞ time) idx--;
if (idx ＜ 1) idx = 1;
t = st.key(idx).time;
}
r = sourceRectAtTime(t, useExtents);
x = r.left; y = r.top;
sign = 1;
[ x*sign, y*sign ]

► Text Precomp Position:

n = parseInt(thisLayer.name.split(",")[1]);
yStep = thisComp.layer("control").effect("Y")("Slider");
[value[0], value[1] + (n-1)*yStep]

► Text Precomp Time Remap Value:

n = parseInt(thisLayer.name.split(",")[1]);
offsetFrames = thisComp.layer("control").effect("time(frames)")("Slider");
fps = thisComp.frameDuration;
loopDurFrames = 240;
loopDurSec = loopDurFrames * fps;
tFrames = time / fps;
tFrames -= (n-1) * offsetFrames;
loopFrame = (tFrames % loopDurFrames + loopDurFrames) % loopDurFrames;
loopFrame * fps

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CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 - Original Reference
00:00:00 - Comp and Text Settings
00:00:36 - Tracking Animator
00:01:38 - Duplicate Animator
00:02:02 - Source Text Keyframes
00:02:24 - Text Layer Anchor Point Expression
00:03:04 - Expression Breakdown
00:03:59 - Keyframing Tracking Animators
00:05:16 - Precompose Text Layer
00:05:53 - Slider Controls
00:06:25 - Text Precomp Position Expression
00:06:37 - Expression Breakdown
00:06:59 - Time Remap Expression
00:07:10 - Expression Breakdown
00:07:58 - Duplicating and Distributing Text Layers
00:09:24 - Final Animation
00:09:47 - Exploring this Setup

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