• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Making Titles that Automatically Adjust due to string length.

  Posted by Chris Breaux on November 30, 2018 at 8:31 pm

  I’ve made my title and if the name is 20 characters the box will automatically adjust using the code below for the size & position. All text is left aligned. Success! it worked!

  Now I’m re-making the titles so they can be right aligned for titles on the right side of the screen. All text is right aligned and I’m running into a problem(See Right Aligned Text) So how would I change the code so that when text is typed, the “blueRectangle” shape layer moves to the left instead of the right?

  Right Aligned Text:
  

  Here’s the left aligned text that works:
  

  Hope this makes sense. I’m no coder & any help would be much appreciated. Thx Chris

  Expressions Used for the "content" of rectangle 1

  SIZE:
  s =thisComp.layer("NAME_HERE");
  x = s.sourceRectAtTime(time-s.inPoint,true).width;
  y = s.sourceRectAtTime(time-s.inPoint,true).height;
  [x,y]

  POSITION:

  content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").size/2

  Kalleheikki Kannisto replied 7 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Kalleheikki Kannisto

  December 9, 2018 at 10:53 am

  It is either just moving the anchor point to the edge that is fixed or that and taking the “/2” out of the last line.

  Kalleheikki Kannisto
  Senior Graphic Designer

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