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  Lyric Video: replace single text letter with comp of animated letter

  Posted by Linus Kraemer on May 31, 2017 at 11:29 pm

  I’m making a lyric video much like this one but I want to do it without having to manually position each animated character:
  https://www.dropbox.com/s/kbg1202jxqz2kw5/omen%20lyric%20video.mp4?dl=0
  (skip to 19s)

  Full description of my problem is below, but this is my question:
  I want to find the position of a character from a text box so that I can place a composition in that character’s place. Is this possible??

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  I’ll design the static layout of the type using a standard font in a normal text box. Call that “LYRICS”.
  Then I will make 26 unique character animations, one for each letter of the alphabet.
  Each letter animation lasts 2 seconds (to be looped). A single master letter comp has every letter in sequence so it is 52 seconds long. Call that comp MASTER_LETTER.

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  To get the right letter animating on each copy of MASTER_LETTER.
  On the time remapping property of MASTER_LETTER:

  if (thisComp.layer(“LYRICS”).text.sourceText[index] == “A”)
  then //loop the 1st two seconds

  if (thisComp.layer(“LYRICS”).text.sourceText[index] == “B”)
  then //loop the 2nd two seconds

  if (thisComp.layer(“LYRICS”).text.sourceText[index] == “C”)
  then //loop the 3rd two seconds

  etc for every letter.
  —-

  But the position I cannot work out!

  On the position property of MASTER_LETTER:
  thisComp.layer(“LYRICS”).text.sourceText[index].position

  but there’s no such thing as a position property for sourceText!

  I want to find the position of a character from a text box so that I can place a composition in that character’s place. Is this possible??

  Thanks for any help! Hopefully there’s a solution out there!

  Linus Kraemer replied 8 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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