[Adam Greenberg]

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

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

[Adam Greenberg]

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

thanks again Filip, this is a great expression

[Adam Greenberg]

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.

[Adam Greenberg]

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

[Adam Greenberg]

ok thanks now i understand better. that was exactly the problem. thanks so much Filip.

[Adam Greenberg]

Thanks so much. This is amazing work Filip, you really put some time into this. I have noticed it works perfectly with the exception of capital letters. I will see if I can figure out why.

[Adam Greenberg]

Amazing Filip.

I see your point with the variable spacing per line but most texts will fall on only 2 lines, so this would not really be an issue.

Is it possible to have this work on 1 layer only, without using source text property to reference another layer. I ask only because the users would need per character control in the character palette sometimes. But if not, I can always add a note to the template for those cases.

thanks again Filip.

[Adam Greenberg]

Hi Flip, so yes it is for a template, and it is 1 text layer with hard returns ( if thats possible )

The reason is…. the text is all caps but in french.

And the look we are going for is the text almost touching each other, but we want the text to have a bigger gap between lines only when there are characters that pose a problem, such as;

É È Ç Î À Â

those characteres sort of ruin the look but we have no choice but prevent them from overlapping. so I am sure there is a way to get this in the line spacing property as opposed to the leading, which we cannot write expressions in.

[Adam Greenberg]

maybe you could use the set matte effect instead, i try never copying masks. what if you edit your mask, you would need to remember to recopy. unless you use expressions, but i think set matte is best, but it depends what you are doing exactly

[Adam Greenberg]

I got it, thanks to searching in here for other time related expressions, and trial and error, and realizing we needed to tell the layer what the original duration was, otherwise how would after effects know where to put the out animation. I hope others find this helpful.

And thanks so much to all of you who posted in the past when i was doing the searches;

inDur = 1; // replace 1 with the duration of your in animation, in seconds, or divide frames by framerate

outDur = 1; // replace 1 with the duration of your out animation, in seconds, or divide frames by framerate

originalDuration = thisLayer.source.duration;

if (time <= inPoint + inDur) {

linear(time, inPoint, inPoint + inDur, 0, inDur);

} else if (time >= outPoint – outDur) {

linear(time, outPoint – outDur, outPoint, originalDuration – outDur, originalDuration);

} else {

inDur;

}