• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Self resizing text box, alter width

  Posted by Nina Mertz on November 11, 2021 at 1:12 pm

  Hi,

  I’m trying to create a self resizing text box with this tutorial:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRKJ2HcFmmY&t=219s

  But I’d like to add some extra padding to it, but not the same amount of pixels on the left/right and bottom top. So in other words, I’d like to add more width to the padding than height.

  I’ve got this now > see screenshot. I imagine it’s a quite simple expression, could someone help me out? Thank you so much!

  

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  Nina Mertz replied 4 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Andrei Popa

  November 12, 2021 at 6:38 am

  Hi Nina.

  In your expression row 2 is width and row 3 is height. Just add the amount of pixels you need to each row, like this:

  s = thisComp.layer("svo");
  w = s.sourceRectAtTime().width + 50;
  h = s.sourceRectAtTime().height + 20;
  [w,h]
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  Nina Mertz

  November 12, 2021 at 2:55 pm

  Thank you so much! Lifesaver!

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