Starting text from the bottom baseline

[Andy Bryce]

Hi Dave,

The animation is just a movement of position of the text layer under a matte.

The reason I need the text to be inserted for the bottom is so the content can be pulled in dynamically and the text fills the section from bottom up to start close to the green line at the bottom of the text frame.

Thanks,

[Andy Bryce]

Thanks for the suggestion but Iv got the animation sorted i am then using this as a template for adverts where the content will be added dynamically from a web form.

I would like to design this so that if there is more text / more lines this will be a good distance away from the bottom line and consitant.

[Andy Bryce]

It’s not about the animation at all

It’s just how the text formats in the text window. You have left aligned / center / right align.

All I am wondering is if there is a way to align the text to the bottom of the frame instead of the top so as more text is added in the frame it is on the bottom of the text frame and not at the top.

I can’t find a way to do this hoping you can help

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Yeah, it’s annoying AE doesn’t have this option in the paragraph palette.

A simple position expression on the text layer can fix the issue:

transform.position - [0, thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime().height-offset]

wherein “offset” is replaced by a number that keeps the textbox in its original place when the maximum number of text lines is filled with text, i.e. type the textbox full of text before figuring out what the offset amount is.

(Works from After Effects 13.2 forward.)

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Andy Bryce]

This worked perfectly!

thanks you so much

[Tamara Heath]

Thanks so much Kalleheikki, that’s great! Is there an easy way to adjust this expression to vertically centre the text box?

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Add “/2” after height.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Tamara Heath]

Kalleheikki you are a good man, thank you.

[Ian Cross]

Hello. Quick question to clarify. Does this expression move a line of text up when you press enter to start a new line? If so. Where on the text layer does this expression go?

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Yes, it does. It goes in the position property.

In recent versions you may need to use “sourceRectAtTime(time, false)”, to make sure the content is being measured rather than the text box — although those should be the defaults.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer