[Fahd Chishty]

A simple way to achieve this would be to
i. recompose your text
ii. apply a rectangular mask on half of that layer (with one side of the rectangle being exactly on the line where your knife will move)
iii. duplicate the layer and invert its mask
iv. Move the layers up and down as you want 🙂

Hope that helps

“I barely know what I know. How can I then know what I do not know?” –Rumi

[Fahd Chishty]

A simple way to achieve this would be to
i. recompose your text
ii. apply a rectangular mask on half of that layer (with one side of the rectangle being exactly on the line where your knife will move)
iii. duplicate the layer and invert its mask
iv. Move the layers up and down as you want 🙂

Hope that helps

[Fahd Chishty]

Use Effects>Distort>Magnify

[Fahd Chishty]

The code above needed some enhancements and tweaking for working right.

I am putting the modified code here for any who might need it 🙂

charNum = 1; //The index of word which you want to take
myLayer=thisComp.layer("Change Text Here");
totChars=myLayer.text.sourceText.value.length; //Total Number of characters in the sentence (excluding \r)
totWords=getWords(myLayer); //Number of words there are in the sentence
//defining other variables
cont=true;
count=0;
i=0;
j=0;
fJ=0;
txt=[];

while(cont && i=charNum)
{
cont=false;
break;
}
}
txt[j]=myLayer.text.sourceText[i];
i++;
j++;

}
fJ;
txt.splice(fJ, (txt.length-fJ));
txt.join("");

function getWords(layer)
{
x=0;
y=0;
while (x<totChars)
{
if (layer.text.sourceText[x]=="\r")
{y++;}
x++;
}
return y+1;
}