Amazing, thank you, that did the trick perfectly.

Hey All,
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to matte something out that was further away in zspace and combine it with an expression?

I would like certain elements as they move further away to become invisible based on how far away they move in z space and come back when they move closer in.

Thank you Dan

Hey All, I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to scale certain characters if they appear in a text element. For example, every time the percentage character appears, it automatically scales to 50%.

Thank you very much.

Hey I have searched high and low and I was wondering if there was a way to write text in the expression field that gets ignored and serves only as a notes for myself?

Thanks

Not sure if this is possible but would there be a way to make it so that, if for example, these 4 pieces of text end up being wider than a certain predetermined amount the group as a whole scales accordingly to fit back into a predetermined width?

Thank you very much gentlemen, worked like a charm. Very much appreciated.

I am setting up mogrt templates using spreadsheet data. My goal is for a user to enter 6 digit hex value in the spreadsheet and for that value to be picked up in my mogrt. The only way I can think to do this is is to have some hidden text that receives the hex value from the spreadsheet that gets passed onto the color property. Maybe there is a…

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Darn! Thank you as always Dan. I don’t understand the 0 beside transform.scale but it works!

Hey All,

I am attempting to map an image’s scale that is currently scaled at 15% to a null that is currently at 100%. I would like to use the linear expression to do this. I’ve tried to write this several different ways and I keep getting an error that says “argument 1 to linear() must be scalar”. I can use linear expressions with values no…

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Brilliant, thank you Dan!

I tried using this on each layer but it still doesnt space evenly.

gap = thisComp.layer("Control").effect("Spacing")("Slider")+(thisComp.layer("A").transform.xPosition)
L = thisComp.layer("A");
rect = L.sourceRectAtTime();
[gap+rect.width+rect.left];

The ascenders and decenders aren’t even the issue yet, I haven’t even made it that far.

Single line yes, and there are descenders and ascenders.

Sorry I never did find an answer

Hello All,

I am a bit stumped. I am trying to evenly distribute the x position of 4 text layers horizontally all on the same y axis in a composition. I would like to for the group of 4 to also be centered within the comp. And for the cherry on top I would love to have a slider to control the gap distance between layers for tweaking as needed.

D…

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Worked immediately. I’m not really sure what we’re going to do when you’re no longer around Dan. The world owes you.

Hey All,
I am trying to randomly offset the position of a layer based on it’s current value without separating it’s X and Y dimensions. Anyone know if this is possible?
I would also like to freeze the random value returned in place. This is what I have so far on the position property and it seems completely wrong. Thanks for any help.

seedRa…

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That worked perfectly, thank you Dan. I wish I could understand why however lol!
What does the question mark and colon between 100 and 0 mean?
Ternary Operator? If so, isn’t a ternary operator simply a more efficient but ultimately similar way to say the above? Shouldn’t the above still work?
Thanks again for all the help you provide the…

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Hey Friends,
I am trying to adjust the opacity of a layer using a if/then expression and drop down menus. I would like it if multiple drop down menu options were selected it would adjust the opacity of a layer.
So basically if I select either option 3 or 4 in my drop down menu it will return 100% opacity, if neither of those are selected it…

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I’m on a brand new computer and my install of creative cloud had automatically keep premiere up to date checked on unfortunately so my Premiere was updated to 2021 overnight. Now I can’t open my productions file for some reason. Anyway know how to open your productions?