Creating 2 text with 1 layer

[Filip Vandueren]

If it’s just 1 line, sure:

first off: set Text -> More Options -> Anchor Point Grouping to “All”

Add this expression to sourceText:

text.sourceText.style.setAutoLeading(false).setLeading(0).setText(value+"\r"+value);

This doubles the text, and sets the Leading to 0 (the two copies will overlap)

Now add a Scale animator to the text set scale to taste (500 %).
Set the range Selector’s start to 50% (only the duplicated part will be selected)

Also add an opacity-property to the animator at say 10-20%

If it’s more than 1 line, it’s a bit trickier to center the upscaled copy automatically in the vertical axis.
The expression should then simply be value+"\r"+value and it would be trivial to make the copy overlap again through using Text -> More Options Grouping Alignment, or by adding a position-property to the animator

[Vugar Ashrafov]

I did what you said. But expression gave error :/

[Filip Vandueren]

What version of After Effects ?

[Vugar Ashrafov]

Tried with CC2017(14.2.0.198) and CC2019(16.1.03).

[Filip Vandueren]

Access to the Style of a text-layer is a new feature.
If the error is “Property or Method named ‘style’ in Class ‘TextProperty’ is missing” then your version of After Effects doesn’t support it yet.

Although, also make sure that Project Settings ->Expressions -> Expressions Engine is set to “Javascript” in the latest version of after effects.

The second simple expression should work perfectly in any version of AE though,
you’ll just have to either manually set the text’s leading to 0, or position the copy using Anchor Point Grouping or a Position property.

[Vugar Ashrafov]

Yes, I will upgrade the AE. This feature is on CC2020. Then will try these.

Thanks for your time and helping!

[Filip Vandueren]

OK,

like I said, it’s not absolutely necessary for this particular effect,
but usually it’s worth it to keep up to date.