[Adam Greenberg]

like this ?

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[Adam Greenberg]

can you post the project, im not sure what the problem is yet, but Id like to have a look

[Adam Greenberg]

but that project is working exactly as you want isnt it ? so what needs to be changed

for the subtitle, thats easy, you just have to put an if else statement on the season, so if the subtitle is not active, it will move up a certain amount of pixels.

like this ( see enclosed project )

[Adam Greenberg]

so i think the main change would be to put the expression that makes the text build upwards on a null. or can you post the project so i can see how the text animation is built, maybe i can do a change for you, ( a smaller version of you project with tjust that composition in it )

[Adam Greenberg]

um, it would be nice to know how you want to animate your text exactly, so forget your locked anchor points for a moment and maybe show us.

Also the second work around is to have your text build up with a different expression that doesn’t require you to lock your anchor point. But I’d need to see your animation to fully understand before I can suggest for sure.

[Adam Greenberg]

something like this ? ( change the value of 600 to what you need ) and also anchor point needs to be on the bottom of your textlayer before you apply this

sourceSize = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime(time, false);

T = sourceSize.top;

L = sourceSize.left;

W = sourceSize.width;

H = sourceSize.height;

([transform.position[0],T-H+600])

[Adam Greenberg]

ok great, your idea is much more straight forward.

thanks Dan

[Adam Greenberg]

starting with your lead and other research, how about this ?

t1 = thisComp.layer(“TEXT 1”).toComp([thisComp.layer(“TEXT 1”).sourceRectAtTime().left+thisComp.layer(“TEXT 1”).sourceRectAtTime().width,0],2)[0];

t2 = thisComp.layer(“TEXT 2”).toComp([thisComp.layer(“TEXT 2”).sourceRectAtTime().left+thisComp.layer(“TEXT 2”).sourceRectAtTime().width,0],2)[0];

t3 = thisComp.layer(“TEXT 3”).toComp([thisComp.layer(“TEXT 3”).sourceRectAtTime().left+thisComp.layer(“TEXT 3”).sourceRectAtTime().width,0],2)[0];

t4 = thisComp.layer(“TEXT 4”).toComp([thisComp.layer(“TEXT 4”).sourceRectAtTime().left+thisComp.layer(“TEXT 4”).sourceRectAtTime().width,0],2)[0];

t5 = thisComp.layer(“TEXT 5”).toComp([thisComp.layer(“TEXT 5”).sourceRectAtTime().left+thisComp.layer(“TEXT 5”).sourceRectAtTime().width,0],2)[0];

t6 = thisComp.layer(“TEXT 6”).toComp([thisComp.layer(“TEXT 6”).sourceRectAtTime().left+thisComp.layer(“TEXT 6”).sourceRectAtTime().width,0],2)[0];

xclamp = clamp(Math.max(t1,t2,t3,t4,t5,t6)+20,545.70,2000);

[xclamp,value[1]]

[Adam Greenberg]

Im getting an error here;

L = thisComp.layer(i);

layer index 0 out of range

[Adam Greenberg]

thanks so much. I will test it and come back and post with the outcome