[Andrew Musselman]

Awesome!!! And what if I wanted to use it for text on the left side of the layer?

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[Andrew Musselman]

I know this is an old thread, and I’m not that great with expressions. This should do exactly what I need it to, but how do I use it? Where on which layer does this get pasted?

Thanks for the help!

L = thisComp.layer("text");
rect = L.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);
x = L.toComp([rect.left+rect.width,0])[0];

So something like this would position a layer 10 pixels to the right of the text:

gap = 10;
L = thisComp.layer("text");
rect = L.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);
x = L.toComp([rect.left+rect.width,0])[0];
[x+gap+width/2,value[1]]

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