remove your expressiom, and try this on anchor point;

posterizeTime(0);

function getNumRows(myLeading, myFontSize, height) {

H = height – myFontSize * 0.5;

return Math.floor(H / myLeading);

}

H = sourceRectAtTime(time, false).height;

var myStyle = text.sourceText.style;

myFontSize = myStyle.fontSize;

myLeading = myStyle.autoLeading ? myFontSize * 1.15…

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Im sorry I dont have the eaxct solution, but this should help you to get to the solution you are looking for.

https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/finding-the-longest-text/

try this, here is a 150 increment box, change gap value as needed

thanks so much, Im going to try it out

Hi everyone.

I have a question about making this new feature useful in a template.

Imagine a text layer that says something like Monday 9 p.m.

and the day is a different font from the hour. In my current templates I have 2 seperate text layers and expressions control the position of these 2 layers accordingly so that the user only has to edit these…

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here is an animation. notice how the fist word is centered. then the whole phrase once all words are present, is centered. and each text layer has its own animation on scale and color and position. but the position is dependant on the final positioning of the whole phrase

thanks Hector Vera, I haven’t tried it yet, but it would not center the first word. This is important. It is the only word we see at the beginning of the animation so it would be nice it if was centered. The problem is when we have 3 words ( which must be center justified – and on seperate layers ) I dont see how the composition will realign…

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Hi everyone. I hope this is doable. I have a motion design that has words appearing one by one ( with a small scale up ) and the word moves over to let the next word come in. Then when all words are there, the entire phrase is centered. So I have 2 problems I havent solved yet.

1. I would like to have the phrase be centered automatically. I suspect…

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can you post your project ( without source files )

lol, im no genius. i just had some free time and this is a common expression. im glad it helped

scale the rectangle for the left edge ? something like this ?

yes 2 solutions from Kevin and Dan, both are in the following thread.

https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/better-than-ease/

finally found the error

I had a + in my initial code that I forgot about.

I cant even remember the original reason I had that in there, but for this purpose, it is not needed. here is the fixed project for anyone who would need this kind of rig

I have tried to redo it multiple times and I cant find a way to make it work. I am sure the problem lies with the sourcerectattime on the precomp, because once the text scales down with longer text, the original calculation doesnt work to place that precomp after the text

Hi all. I have a rig set up, ( project posted below ), and I know the problem but I haven’t figured out the solution.

I have a text layer followed by a precomp. ( this precomp will have a logo in it that will never need to be changed ). so for this example the precomp has a white solid in it.

I have set up the precomp to follow the text layer, so it…

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yes but only this way i can think of for now

here is something maybe you can copy in your project. it does what you talked about. it takes the size of the paragraph text but keeps a minimum of 140. the other shape does the same thing but with a fixed width.

ok i got you 2/3`s of the way there. the code for the rectangle position I have never seen before so I am unable to edit the code on the rectangle position. But the good news is, the logic is simple.

The value just needs to be clamped, so basically you tell after effects the minimum and maximum size.

so i added that code to the position property and…

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I have some free time, do you have a project you can share with us and one of us can post it back with the changes.

But, if the box is maximum 400 by 200, How would you like the text to behave if the paragraph gets too long. or is that not an issue.

here is the code for people who may stumble on this thread one day, to be applied to the path ( you need to add the path property to the rectangle of the shape layer )

margin = 30;

t1=thisComp.layer(“textLayer”);

s1=t1.sourceRectAtTime();

t2=thisComp.layer(“textLayer 2”);

s2=t2.sourceRectAtTime();

l = t1.toComp([s1.left, s1.top])[0] – margin;

r =…

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oops . we would need to add the gap back in there, sorry about that

ok there you go, there might be a way to make this more efficient but i was not prepared to do all that work right now, lol. point is, it does what you want now.

I have a few minutes to take a look. where is this expression posted, in fact, it may be easier if you just post a reduced version of your project in here with no source files and Ill see if i can edit it to work

I think you just need a new variable,

Math.max(l,r)

this would take the longer of l and r

yes, you would actually use the math expression to ask after efefcts to find the longer of the 2 and use that as the width, Ill post that expresssion shortly if someone doesnt beat me to it

you may have to copy paste what you need, but this is a reduced project of a project i have that uses it. you could redo the nulls and expressions for the anchor point of all of it to be on text 1 or 3 instead of text 2 ( which it is in this project ). also you could change the math on the maximum horizontal size of the text. and i just realized…

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ok i need to find my project that has this built in, I have done it before, Ill post back again soon with the solution if someone else doesnt beat me to it

Im trying to understand your issue. Are you trying to have the distance between the text layers stay fixed regardless of whether the text layer has scaled up or not ? so like example 10 pixels from text 1 to text 2 and text 3 but if text 1 scaled down because its really long you want the text 2 and text 3 to move up a little to maintain the…

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There is way, but I have to ask, do you have mulitple comps sizes or is it always from 1920 to 4000. This matters because the simple solution is to just multiply the scale by 2.08334. There would be no reason to write all the complicated code if it is always this ratio. let us know.

There are a few ways to accomplish this, and I guess we would need…

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here are 2;

are you talking about doing the whole opening sequence, or are you asking about the text layers.

if 1. it is simple enough, but I guess you are pretty new to after effects if you are asking. It is simple but rather time consuming, simple masks on your footage and repositioning them as you like, then, parenting to a null or using a 3d camera.…

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do you have an example ?

they are in animation presets for text, its called slide up by word. here is a project to help you get started, you adjust what you need to customize it.

this is great !!!!!

Thanks Dan !!!

Hi all, I thought I saw this posted here, and I searched I cannot find it, but is there a way to rewrite this expression in a better way ( but not using an index method just in case the order of things gets changed ) .

I thought a ternary operator would maybe save some lines if i set some variables first.

there are 6 layers in a composition and i…

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thanks so much for the clarification

Thanks so much Filip, I am testing it now, so first I obviously need to replace the 2nd line with

l = thislayer;

if i want the layer to scale up to the comp.

so with my first 2 tests work perfectly ( although the scale is showing a negative value – but it is displaying correctly, so I dont understand how that can be )

but on a graphic that has 50…

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Hi all, I had 2 precomps working well with 2 seperate codes, and with no surprise I find myself needing a combination of the 2.

Basically, I have a composition that will have a graphic in it ( which will be replaced by the user each time when the client sends one )

I have an expression that auto scales this layer to the composition bounds.

In a…

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We can thank Dan and Kevin for these methods.

( if they help you )

better than ease ?

Oh I see. There is a post in this forum that will allow to have more control over the animation curve if that is what you were looking for. Let me see if I can find it. In fact I remember saving a project that had 3 ways of doing this, and you pick the one that works best. I’ll check now and post back when I find it.

ok this finds the bottom in case anyone needs it; ( thanks Filip )

posterizeTime(0);

const l = thisComp.layer(“TITRE_SHOW”);

const w = l.width;

const h = l.height;

const heightLog2 = Math.ceil(Math.log(h)/Math.log(2));

const threshold = 1; // on average 1 pixel in a row is opaque to count as the bottomEdge;

var bottomEdge = h;

for(i=heightLog2; i>-1; i–)…

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I have tried this but Im not sure it’s the most accurate way;

[960, (h-l.toComp([w/2, topEdge])[1]+50) ];

Filip, just for the math, could we do the same to find the bottom pixel and place something underneath ?

oh yes this works, I was entering that value in the wrong place.

Thanks Filip !!!! ( for the 3rd time )

my error, I think it was an anchor point issue on my end,

thanks again Filip, this is a great expression

Amazing Filip, thanks so much.

is there a way to have the x value constant ? I tried to replace the values with a number but it didnt’t work. I only need the height position to change.

Hi, I have to a new project that would require the user to import a graphic ( from a 3rd party ) and I would like to know if it is possible to have the position of a text layer appear 50 pixels ( for example ) above the top of this graphic. It could be a png, ai, etc.

I would probably auto resize it with an expression I have used before.

Is there…

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the ease you can do, and thats something else, but what do you want to do for the math ?

for example what if the slider is at 22, what do you want to the position to be ? there has to be some type of math, I am not sure how 40 and 75 relate to each other if 100 is 0 and 0 is 100