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banner fits various text phrase sizes
I have a banner with text on it, that I will be needing to do many different comps with different phrases on: some a few words, some full long sentences.
Is there a way to have it so the banner automatically fits the width of the text, either buy enlarging the banner, or moving a matte over it (hiding the part of the banner that’s not needed)?
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peep my over-the-interweb band, red abbott.
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Does the text change with time? If not, you might want to use a script which you could run after you update all the text and have it resize the banners because scripts can now (as of CS3, I believe) access the height and width of a text layer. Shuldn’t be too hard to set up, but it would depend on the specifics of your project.
Dan
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the text would not change. this would be more for a tool kit for variations that could be passed off to someone who would just be responsible for entering the new text.
i found this post:
https://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=931is that how CS3 gets text width and height? or is there another way? what direction should i be looking in?
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peep my over-the-interweb band, red abbott.
“we electro-rock over long distances…” -
That’s the only way I know of to do it with an expression.
Since the text is not animated though, if it were me, I’d consider using a script, which has access to the much-more-efficient sourceRectAtTime() method. You would run the script after you updated all the text, or maybe even better, let the script read in the new text from a text file and update the text layers and banner size at the same time.
Dan
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thanks, dan. i just dont know a thing about scripts. 🙁 and i think even asking someone to run one would complicate this further than it needs to.
but it does seem that the above expression might do the trick.
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peep my over-the-interweb band, red abbott.
“we electro-rock over long distances…”
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