[Andrei Popa]

I would try to align the anchor of the shape layers to left. Try using this script i made for anchor point placement.

Then add to the position the part of the sourceRectAtTime that you want. If you want one rectangle to be to the left of the other, then position should have something like this:

prevPosition = thisComp.layer("Rectangle 1"). position;
prevWidth = thisComp.layer("Rectangle 1").sourceRectAtTime(time,false).width;
[prePosition[0]+prevWidth, value[1]]


Similar to this, if you want them to be one under the other, you use the anchorPoint script. This is even easier. Set the anchorPoint to the top left for the bottom layer and bot left to the top layer. And let’s say you want the bottom layer to be aligned vertically and with a 20 px space under the top. Top being Rectangle 1, this is the position expression:

prevPosition = thisComp.layer("Rectangle 1").position;
padding = 20;
[prevPosition[0]+padding, prevPosition[1]]

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[Andrei Popa]

I would create a text layer with the name of the comp I want to refer to.
Then write the reference for the composition like this: comp(textLayer.text.sourceText.value)
And put some conditions maybe, so if the composition with the value of the layer doesn’t exist, some default values come in.

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[Andrei Popa]

Give this a shot. Take into consideration that this does not work well with two consecutive empty comment markers.
m = thisComp.layer("subtitles").marker;
n = 0;
if (m.numKeys > 0){
n = m.nearestKey(time).index;
if (m.key(n).time > time) n--;
}
if (n > 0){
t = m.key(n).time;
myComment = m.key(n).comment;
(myComment != "") ? ease (time,t,t+0.2,0,100) : ease (time,t,t+0.2,100,0);
}else
0;

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[Andrei Popa]

This should be the expression of your anchorPoint
var myWidth = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).width;
var left = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).left;
var myHeight = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).height;
var top = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).top;
[left+myWidth/2,myHeight/2+top]

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[Andrei Popa]

You can’t do that with textboxes. Expressions can’t change font size or textBox bounds.

Some workaround would be to make your text a textPoint paragraph and the client would have to insert the newlines, since the textPoint does not break the text.

Then you could add an expression to the size, so this layer decreases when there is more text.

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[Andrei Popa]

Just change the value between parenthesis on row one to change duration:

myDuration = framesToTime(20);
startVal = [0,0];
endVal = [100,100];

if (time < inPoint+myDuration){
ease(time,inPoint, inPoint+myDuration, startVal, endVal)
}else if (time > outPoint - myDuration){
ease(time, outPoint - myDuration, outPoint, endVal, startVal)
}else value

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[Andrei Popa]

The first one is a “ternary” operator. Check this page for some info.

I don’t really understand what you are after here. You have Layer A that sits on top. Layer B can increase in scale until touching Layer A, without any overlay. With this behavior in mind, you want to modify the position of the Layer B so it moves down if the scale is too big or do you want to make this a max size and the layer can not increase further?

And what conditions does Layer A have? Only that it has to stay in the top 10 %? Can you make a really simple animation/picture using two rectangles as layers?

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[Andrei Popa]

You mean that the vertical position can not go in the top 10% of the comp?
Try this:

minValue = height*0.1;

(value[1] < minValue) ? value : [value[0], minValue]

or


yPos = Math.max(height*0.1, value[1]);
[value[0], yPos]


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[Andrei Popa]

Try to copy-paste my code. And yes, there are different types of quotes. And lines. Most of the times i saw this with french keyboards.

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[Andrei Popa]

You used the wrong type of quotes(i’n guessing french). Use this instead.
loopOut("PingPong")

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