[Filip Vandueren]

You can write an applescript or vbscript that launches AE, then starts an AE Javascript.
It’s do-able, but ask yourself, is it worth it, only to find out that the robot didn’t look at kerning, and how the text would flow better if that line-break was 1 word earlier etc.

Perhaps you could find a go-between: design the text-layer in photoshop (should take you only a few minutes maybe) and insert that layer in an automated process that just adds the backgrouns and fades/wipes etc.

[Filip Vandueren]

Should be simple enough:

1. Just create a text-layer
2. Creat your three point mask
3. Set Text → Path Options → Path: to your Mask
4. Set Text → Path Options → Perpendicular to Path: to Off
   That should keep the letters upright.
5. depending on your situation, you can also set Force Alignment to On, or use plenty of tracking to keep the letters spaced apart.
6. Animate your mask
7. Animate the First MArgin / Last Margin parameters to get the text to scroll along the path.
   If you have Force Alignment On, you’ll have to use both at the same time.
8. Set the stroke effect directly on the text-layer
9. You might need some base-line shift to give some distance between letters and line.

[Filip Vandueren]

I wrote a karaoke expression based on layermarkers just for that purpose:

The thread is here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?univpostid=825305&forumid=2&postid=825508&pview=t

It includes some flash-previews of how it can look, and you can download the project files from my site.

[Filip Vandueren]

I wrote a karaoke expression based on layermarkers just for that purpose:

The thread is here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?univpostid=825305&forumid=2&postid=825508&pview=t

It includes some flash-previews of how it can look, and you can download the project files from my site.

[Filip Vandueren]

The only thing I can think of is that the secret preferences are set to a low setting, so there’s little Ram consumption.
Also, make sure you’re not rendering through the openGL driver.

But those are probably long-shots.

Maybe trash the prefs ?

[Filip Vandueren]

You can use the filter “Grow Bounds”

[Filip Vandueren]

here’s the expression you give a text layer’s source-text property:


startValue=200;
endValue=0;

counter=linear(time, thisLayer.inPoint, thisLayer.outPoint, startValue, endValue);

Math.round(counter);


[Filip Vandueren]

here’s the expression you give a text layer’s source-text property:


startValue=200;
endValue=0;

counter=linear(time, thisLayer.inPoint, thisLayer.outPoint, startValue, endValue);

Math.round(counter);


[Filip Vandueren]

I’ve’ tried doing a search and replace on the raw text-file of the project in a text-editor like BBedit once.
That only works if the old and new effect have exactly the same parameters (most do)

But it als only works if the name of the new effect-name has the same length as the old.
for example: just change FE to CC wil work.

But some filters’ name has changed a lot: they won’t work becuase when you change that, your file get’s shorter and probably some checksum gets annoyed at you.

Do it on a copy of your .aep file of course:

succes ain’t garantueed, but it’s worth a shot.

[Filip Vandueren]

Yeah, that might work: if you’re starting out from digital photographs, then the endresult will look pretty nice and realistic. Much better than when you created the whole thing as a very clean graphic in Illustrator or Photoshop.

Otherwise, you might use a corner-pin effect and track the 4 corners of the sunday-block. Problem is that the lines between the corners of the video will not bend.