• Adobe After Effects

  Center en masse Text Layers’ anchor point?

  Posted by Eric Chard on December 16, 2012 at 9:56 pm

  I have many many Text Layers (programmatically generated) that I would like to have their Anchor Points centered.

  How might I do that en masse? (All at once?)

  Thanks!

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  Eric Chard replied 13 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Ridley Walker

  December 17, 2012 at 2:25 am

  To center to the layer both horizontally and vertically you could use the script from BatchFrame to move anchor points:

  Found here: https://www.batchframe.com/extras/

  Of course this requires you to select the layers (multiple if required) then apply the new anchor point.

  If you are using a script to generate the text layers (you did mention “programatically”) then why not set the anchor point in the script using the layer’s width and height divided by 2 to find the center?
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  Eric Chard

  December 17, 2012 at 6:36 pm

  Thanks for that pointer.

  It would be superior to alter the TEXT>>LAYERS script I’m using to generate the comp, but I’m very new at scripting and didn’t want to get embroiled in a big mess. Perhaps it’s very simple.

  THANKS!

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