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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
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I think you just need a new variable,
Math.max(l,r)
this would take the longer of l and r
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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
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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 mine is left justified and yours is center. hopefully it helps you out.
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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
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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 relative distance ? or perhaps you want text 1 to move down and text 3 to move up ? where is your fixed point if this is the case. is it the bottom of layer 3 ? or is it text layer 2, and is it the bottom of text layer 2 or top of text layer 2 ?
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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 to know if the position or scale is already animated.
I mean, you could also drag the whole comp into a 4000 comp, and fit to fill, and just click continously rasterize to keep the full quality of the original pics inside.
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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. fading in the opacity of these layer, adding a shape layer, with a text layer counting up. its the kind of thing that if you ask 100 people to recreate this exactly, you will get 100 different looking ae projects that all give the same result, so I doubt there is 1 tutorial anywhere that will explain it all.
you should start with the first 2 seconds and try and recreate that, you have no choice but to attack it this way. Only someone more advanced would do it all in 1 comp.
make your first precomp 3 of 4 seconds though, way more than you need, ( always good practice ) and do your motion design in that, then you will drop this into a master comp where you decide how to transition from 1 segment to the next.
I think this is the best way to wrap your head around it, and even though it seems tedious or annoying, you will be so much better in after effects from havng attempted this exercise. I would argue that most experts in after effects started with something they saw and tried to recreate.
if 2. that is super easy, but rather than to paste code, if you google
creating a number counteryou will see so many ways to do it. ( or incremental number counter ) -
do you have an example ?