Scrolling List that moves down with every new line

[Max Pinton]

I’m sure there’s a way to get a text animator to do this, but the simplest way I could figure out was to use a track matte and then move the text down to reveal a line at a time. You’ll want to reverse your text by putting an expression on its Source Text (or reversing the lines in a text editor):

text.sourceText.split(‘\r’).reverse().join(‘\r’);

And then you could put an expression on the text’s Y position (right-click Position, Separate Dimensions) to move it down a line per, let’s say, second:

transform.yPosition += Math.floor(time) * 36; // replace 36 with your leading

Hope that helps.

[Kevin Camp]

a very simple, yet manual way, is to simply copy/paste line 1, and add a keyframe to to the source text property. skip down the timeline to where you want line 2 to appear, and copy/paste that into to the text layer before the previous line of text.

repeat for all lines of text.

then, as you move through the timeline, each new line will add at the top of the text layer, effectively moving the previous line down a line.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

[Carlos Robles]

Thanks for the snark.

[Carlos Robles]

Thanks, I knew there was a simple solution I wasnt thinking of.