Autoscale Text Box with fixed height ?

[Andrei Popa]

Would modifying the white box accordingly bee a problem? So when you have Q’s, the white box would also be higher?

Andrei
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[Patrick Middelkoop]

Hi Jelle!

You can in fact fix this very simple.

In the Size-expression you can change the `h` to `value[1]`

So it would look something like this:


SIZE
s=thisComp.layer("1 - Name LastName");
w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width;
h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height;
[w, value[1]]

POSITION
s=thisComp.layer("1 - Name LastName");
w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width/2;
h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height/2;
l=s.sourceRectAtTime().left;
t=s.sourceRectAtTime().top;
[w+l,h+t]


This will now fix the standard height to the value you set it in After Effects itself.

[Jelle Bonn]

I’m making this lower third (template) to use on different video’s, and I need them to be on the exact same position in every video. So I can’t change the height of my white line. I am searching a way to give my blue box a fixed height even when I use letters like ‘Q’ that takes more space.

[Andrei Popa]

If it’s only the horizontal size that you want modified, you can use this expression for size and set the vertical size to one that fits your text manually.


//SIZE
s=thisComp.layer("1 - Name LastName");
w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width;
[w,value[1]]


Andrei
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