• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Scale background to text

  Posted by Gary Devaan on November 10, 2016 at 10:42 pm

  I’m using the first block of code to scale my background to a line of text, but I would like to also add a TITLE text layer. Can I use something like on the bottomto say either of the layers whatever is longest to determine the background size?

  x = thisComp.layer("NAME").sourceRectAtTime().width+150;
y = value[1];
[x,y]

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  x = thisComp.layer("NAME" || "TITLE").sourceRectAtTime().width+150;
y = value[1];
[x,y]

  Kevin Camp replied 9 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Kevin Camp

  November 10, 2016 at 11:17 pm

  try this:

  w1 = thisComp.layer(“NAME”).sourceRectAtTime().width;
  w2 = thisComp.layer(“TITLE”).sourceRectAtTime().width;
  x = Math.max(w1,w2)+150;
  y = value[1];
  [x,y]

  Kevin Camp
  Art Director
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