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Dave Thompson
August 8, 2016 at 7:22 pm in reply to: Scaling text to text box expression

Awesome! Everything works great outside of a few things. The text doesn’t see the bounds of the path and so when I type too many characters, it drops down to a second line. The anchor point also changes when there are multiple lines of text but that won’t be an issue if it is restricted to one line. I’ve been trying to look up expression help but not seeing much out there or not searching the right terms.

Take a look at what’s happening here (Version 2):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7l4zgqu49ztqds3/AAC0iK860ChdTfbiw73f5gI6a?dl=0

Thanks again!
Dave
Dave Thompson
August 5, 2016 at 9:08 pm in reply to: Scaling text to text box expression

Thanks again, Kalle!

Apparently I need to take some programming classes. This stuff is insane beneficial. I gave it the old college try but am not left brained enough to get this to work. If you feel like looking at the file, it’s in the Dropbox below.

What I’m getting currently is that when the text is too long, the characters start piling up on each other. If there is a way to keep the tracking the same whether big or small, that would be sweet. Basically, the text will need to scale down after it reaches the max limit on the path.

I appreciate your time!
Dave

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7l4zgqu49ztqds3/AAC0iK860ChdTfbiw73f5gI6a?dl=0
Dave Thompson
August 4, 2016 at 5:19 pm in reply to: Scaling text to text box expression

Hey Kalle –
One more thing if you have a moment. I’ve now tried to create an expression that will pull text from outside of After Effects and space it evenly on a path. It only needs to be one line but the biggest problem is the variation in the length of the text that will be brought in dynamically. For instance, one line of text is country names so one could be “Chile” and another is “The United States of America”. If you look at the example in the dropbox link below, you’ll see what I’m talking about (where it says “Switzerland”). Similar to what you did before, the expression would need to scale the text and adjust the tracking between each letter. On the flip side, when a short name like “Chile” is brought in, the text needs to be centered and letter spacing close together so it’s not too spread apart.

If you wouldn’t mind giving me your thoughts on this, I would appreciate it.

Thanks again!
Dave

https://www.dropbox.com/s/phztubg7k2m3368/Example.jpg?dl=0
Dave Thompson
August 3, 2016 at 5:37 pm in reply to: Scaling text to text box expression

Genius, thanks Kalle! I appreciate your efforts on this. Exactly what I needed.

Thanks again!
Dave Thompson
Dave Thompson
June 17, 2014 at 7:00 pm in reply to: Video Map Fly Over

Hi Stewart –
I am looking to create fly over maps for use in broadcasting as well. It looks like you posted your question back in January. Did you ever find a solution by chance?