Expression to use meta data from adobe encoder to make subtitles in After Effects

[Nick McIntyre]

Hey all – I am using the below expression to use meta data from some analyzed text in adobe media encoder to make subtitles for a video. It works perfectly by the way. The only problem I am having is this expression only has one line of text and I would like 2 lines so more text can be at the bottom of the video. This specific expression says to play 5 words at a time. I would prefer to have 2 lines with 5 words on each line. Does anyone know how to add a carriage return in to this script and make it 2 lines at a time (ie 10 words on screen)? Thanks in advance!

here is what the expression does: (one line of text)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8046/Screenshots/0y.png

here is what I would like it to do: (two lines of text)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8046/Screenshots/0z.png

here is the script:
L = thisComp.layer(“name of your video. extension”);
max = 5; // number of words to display
n = 0
if (L.marker.numKeys > 0){
n = L.marker.nearestKey(time).index;
if (L.marker.key(n).time > time){
n–;
}
}
s = ” “;
if (n > 0){
base = Math.floor((n-1)/max)*max + 1;
for (i = base; i < base + max; i++){
if (i <= L.marker.numKeys){
s += L.marker.key(i).comment + ” “;
}
}
}
s

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[Kevin Camp]

i assume this is applied to a text layer in ae. if so, use paragraph text rather than point text.

in ae i don’t think there is a way to just convert point text to paragraph text like there is in photoshop, but if you create a new text layer with the text tool by clicking and dragging a rectangle it will create a text block (paragraph text) that will wrap when the text reaches the width of the box.

Kevin Camp
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[Nick McIntyre]

OMG! I have been searching all over for this answer. I though i tried that already, but evidentally I did not set my variable high enough for it to wrap. Thanks so much.

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[Jamaal Jackson]

So what exactly did you end up doing to get this to work?