• Adobe After Effects

  Automatically compress and morph/shrink text

  Posted by Pav Vladislav on September 6, 2017 at 12:14 am

  I’m a beginner in AE btw. How can you make a lower thirds that automatically compresses text inside a box? Coz i don’t want to edit the characters manually.
  And second is how to morph/shrink the same text? Just like how CNN lower thirds work. I’m using CS4. Thanks in adv for your responses.

  Kevin Camp replied 8 years, 12 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Kevin Camp

  September 6, 2017 at 5:51 pm

  you can do it with later versions of creative cloud versions of ae… adobe added a sourceRectAtTime() expression function that can determinate the size of a text layer that can then be used to create a ‘shrink-to-fit’ expression to scale text layer to fit a maximum size.

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