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Issues with SourceRectAtTime not match the height of my text
Hi everyone,
I’m issues with my shape layer not matching the height of my text. I’m using the paragraph text mode.
Here’s the expression I’m using for the shape layer size:textWidth=thisComp.layer(“Saturday Night Live host, Timothée Chalamet, rode away with the show on his beloved tiny horse”).sourceRectAtTime().width;
textHeight=thisComp.layer(“Saturday Night Live host, Timothée Chalamet, rode away with the show on his beloved tiny horse”).sourceRectAtTime().height;
[490.2, textHeight]
I’ll also attach some screenshots with other additional expressions I’ve used.
Thank you 🙏
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2 Replies
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Can’t see an obvious problem with your script. Personally I would rename the text layers to something short and simple to help keep your code clean.
If the sourceRectattime() functions aren’t returning the right answer, you’re probably using a text box, don’t think it works on these, it has to be free form text – open the text type tool, and don’t click and drag to make a box, just click anywhere instead.
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You need to add parameters to the function like this:
textWidth=thisComp.layer(“Saturday Night Live host, Timothée Chalamet, rode away with the show on his beloved tiny horse”).sourceRectAtTime(time, false).width;
Also, sourceRectAtTime does not count for scale, so your final expression may look like this
textWidth=thisComp.layer(“Saturday Night Live host, Timothée Chalamet, rode away with the show on his beloved tiny horse”).sourceRectAtTime(time, false).width * scale[0] * 0.01;
textHeight=thisComp.layer(“Saturday Night Live host, Timothée Chalamet, rode away with the show on his beloved tiny horse”).sourceRectAtTime(<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>time, false<i style=”background-color: var(–bb-content-background-color); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>).height <i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>* scale[1] * 0.01<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color); background-color: var(–bb-content-background-color);”>;
[490.2, textHeight]
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