How to scale one word at a time for emphasis

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hello Steven, could you please specify how do you plan to change the words to be scaled? In addition, do you need animation to scaleUp >>> scaleDown to original value, or instant ‘jump’ from one word to another would be sufficient?

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[Steven Jenner]

The initial thought process was each word would scale up and then back down individually to carry someone through a string of text and the spacing would also move to accommodate the scaling.

Instant jump would be sufficient, but having more control is always a nice option to have!

I ended up doing the thing by hand, but I was hoping to learn a more efficient method if one exists ☺

Thanks!

[Steven Jenner]

Your thinking is where I ultimately landed. It was just so manual I wanted to make sure I wasn’t creating work for myself when a simple automated solution was available and I was just ignorant to it. I’m glad to say I actually implemented it in the manner you suggested, so that feels good at least!

Thanks again!

[Mark Wilde]

I’m very much a newbie, but I have been doing something similar and I’ve been using text animators to achieve this.

• Add a text animator for ‘scale’.
• Set your scale property at 120% or whatever.
• Add 2 keyframes on the ‘offset’ layer . The offset should start at -100% on first keyframe and the last keyframe should be +100%. The range selector should start at 0% and end at 100%
• Then set the Anchor point group to ‘Word’ (this way you won’t have to mess around with scaling the tracking also) This is under ‘More options’.
• Use a ‘smooth’ property under ‘advanced’ (rather than ramp up or square) . ‘Based on’ should be words rather than characters.

You might need to tweak a few things and mess around with the scale, but I think that is everything, you should be good to go…

[Kevin Camin]

You can do it with expressions so that a scaled word would create a change in the space between the words and maintain their relationship. If this is a one-off, you might just want to manually do it, but if this is a frequent thing you do the expression route would be worthwhile.

I’m not a coder, but if you watch this part one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK1Ejt7qND0

and then search on youtube for part 2 of this series, it’ll give you, I believe, the code and principles necessary to figure out your issue.

Good luck.

Best regards,

Kevin Camin

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[Steven Jenner]

Thank you, Sir. I’ll check it out. I’m always up to learn 🙂

[Sergio Pol]

You’re a lifesaver! That “more options” thingy was the one driving me mad. I didn’t know it was there. Thanks a lot!!

[Brie Clayton]

Thank you for solving this, Mark!