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You need to put a little logic into your expression using else if (this is true) { this happens} else (if this is true) {this happens}:

You might consider 3 sliders, one called speed, one called pause, and one called delay. Your expression would look something like this:

      p = 3;
      s = 100;
      d = 2;
      st = p+d;

      x1 = s * time;
      x2 = s * p;
      x3 = x2 + s * (time - st);

      if (time < p) { 	xt = x1}; else if (time > st) {
      	xt = x3};
      else {
      	xt = x2 };

      x = value [0] + xt;

      y = value [1];
      [x, y]

You would replace the values for s, p, and d with a call to your sliders.

If I had AE in front of me I could probably figure out how to get this to ease in and out also.

Hope this helps.

For your purposes, a quicker and simpler solution would be to avoid tying the animation to the time factor. Instead, tie he position animation to a Slider and keyframe the slider.

- Jonas Hummelstrand
  <http://generalspecialist.com/>

I'm with Jonas on this one. Unless you need some specific speed between times keyframes for position would be the easiest.

While I've not used the expression I posted above, If you put some easy ease in there it may be useful for text crawls or rolls. I'm thinking it may be useful for something like a stock ticker that paused every 4 or 5 seconds. Maybe I'll play around with this expression a little more this evening and try and make it ease in and out of the pause.

Rick