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  • Scrolling text more than 300 words

    Posted by Arun Longjam on August 5, 2021 at 2:15 am

    Hello everyone, I have a scrolling text layer moving from left to right. Text below 230 words work correctly but when the text length is more than 230 words, text will disappear. So, how can we enable long text scrolling? My comp size is 1920X1080 25FPS. Thanks.

    Arun Longjam replied 5 years ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Tomas Bumbulevičius

    August 5, 2021 at 6:39 am

    Are you sure its because of the length? Could you try to calculate sourceRectAtTime for that layer, to inspect its actual pixels widths?

    In addition, make sure text is not box-area-text, but plain one (no boundaries set, just in case)

  • Arun Longjam

    August 5, 2021 at 2:18 pm

    May be the length of the text. While I am using 230 words it’s fine but more than that, text will disappear. Can’t find solution.

  • Arun Longjam

    August 5, 2021 at 3:20 pm

    I think multiple text layer and parenting to the first one will do the trick. But there is one problem, each of text layer length might be different. So, shifting layer position to the nearest one might require. So, please write me the expression for shifting layer to the x position of the parent layer.

  • Andrei Popa

    August 6, 2021 at 5:44 pm

    Can you post a short video? When does the text disappear? Is it still present in the timeline at the time when it disappears?

  • Arun Longjam

    August 7, 2021 at 12:15 pm

    At the time of pasting words. Still text layer is there. Pasting below 230 words shows correctly but more than that make disappear. I will show you short video.

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