• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  external text/alignment

  Posted by Jake Rogers on May 6, 2009 at 8:30 pm

  Hi all- here’s an interesting problem– I’m creating a lower third, with lots of different titles, so I set it up so that the text is generated from an external file, which is very handy (using Graymachine’s tutorial – https://www.graymachine.com/tutorials/expressions-and-external-documents ). However, what I would like is to have on the first line of text name in bold, and title not bold (requiring 2 text fields). Is there an expression I could use to align the second generated text field align to the right margin of the first line (the length will change with each new entry, but an expression would solve this)? Or, the other option would be to add code into the external file (here’s a sample from the text file: LowerThird_sc006 = [“Name”, “Title”, “Location”] (note: “Location” is setup below on another line)

  Hope this makes sense–
  Thanks–

  Filip Vandueren replied 17 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Filip Vandueren

  May 9, 2009 at 2:13 pm

  Can’t be done with expressions, but it can be done with scripting, there are some methods for getting the pixel boundaries of a text-layer.

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