Re: 'regaining control'

I think I am just being unclear or stupid or both.

I want to 'tail-off' the influence of the expression rather than end it specifically at a given frame. I guess this means keyframes, but I can't work out how to create a slider that controls the audio and still use it in the Warp expression.

I have a letter 'o' pre-composed. On that layer I have a Warp effect. A couple of those parameters are driven by an audio layer. Obviously, as the audio is playing the letter is deformed. Towards the end of the animation I want to bring the rest of the word in - the word to which the letter 'o' is the beginning. However, because of the influence of the audio layer on that single letter, the word looks weird. I want all the Warp parameters to be zero by the time the rest of the word comes in, but I don't want it to be a sudden jump; I want to be able to ease those values into zero over a few frames.

I thought I could do it simply with an expression control slider but I have a feeling I have to create a variable first...?

Thanks for hanging in there!

A

PS I can send the project if you think it would be clearer.