• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  My text box is not getting along with my expression.

  Posted by Josh Zimmerman on August 1, 2017 at 4:09 pm

  I have it all set up but what can I do to offset the letter ascenders making the red box jump?

  Any thoughts?

  

  

  AE file here: 11560_wsf2017lowerthirds1.aep.zip

  x=20
y=thisComp.layer("TEXT 2").sourceRectAtTime().height+20;

  [x,y]

  Josh Zimmerman replied 9 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Andrei Popa

  August 2, 2017 at 3:08 pm

  Try adding this code to the anchor of the “Rectangle Path 1” anchor;y=(66.5 - content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").size[1])/2;
[value[0],y]
  66.5 in this expression is the size the rectangle has when your text does not contain Y character.

  Andrei
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  Josh Zimmerman

  August 8, 2017 at 5:59 pm

  This works! Thanks you for the help and a such a creative way around the problem.

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