[Filip Vandueren]

This is the basic approach:

– make sure the text is in a text-box, not paragraph text (you draw a rectangle with the type tool instead of clicking)

– make that text-box the width you need initially, but oversize it plenty vertically if you plan on animating it to be less wide later on.

– make sure the anchorPoint of the text-box is at the top of the box , and corresponds to your paragraph alignment (topleft for left justified, topMiddle for centre aligned, etc.)

– give the sourceText this expression:

s=100/transform.scale[0];
style.setFontSize(style.fontSize*s).setLeading(style.leading*s);

– now animate the scale parameter and the box will get wider/narrower while the font visibly remains the same size and rewraps.

[Filip Vandueren]

When I get the error of the 2 frames, a restart of the application is all that helps, after purging cache, disk cache, switching bit depth to force rerenders,… those help when I don’t get as much Ram preview as I want, but 2 frames error = restart

[Filip Vandueren]

Try converting the footage to prores before importing into After Effects and see if that helps.

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Jean,

try this as an expression for scale of the layer:

(function getZoomFromMarker() {
    if (!marker.numKeys) return [100, 100];
    nk = marker.nearestKey(time);
    nki = nk.time > time ? nk.index - 1 : nk.index;
    if (nki == 0) return [100, 100];
    m = marker.key(nki);
    markerEndTime = m.time + m.duration;
    if (time > markerEndTime) return [100, 100];
    zoomFactor = parseFloat(m.comment.split(" ")[1]);
    return [zoomFactor, zoomFactor];;
})();

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Malcolm, try this for the layer’s anchorPoint:

posterizeTime(0);
l = thisLayer;
w = l.width;
h = l.height;
threshold = 0.1;
s = [0, 0, 0, 0];
for (x = 0;
    (s[3] < threshold && x <= w); x++) s = l.sampleImage([x, h / 2], radius = [0.5, h / 2], postEffect = false, t = time);
leftEdge = x;
s = [0, 0, 0, 0];
for (x = w;
    (s[3] < threshold && x >= 0); x--) s = l.sampleImage([x, h / 2], radius = [0.5, h / 2], postEffect = false, t = time);
rightEdge = x;
s = [0, 0, 0, 0];
for (y = 0;
    (s[3] < threshold && y <= h); y++) s = l.sampleImage([w / 2, y], radius = [w / 2, 0.5], postEffect = false, t = time);
topEdge = y;
s = [0, 0, 0, 0];
for (y = h;
    (s[3] < threshold && y >= 0); y--) s = l.sampleImage([w / 2, y], radius = [w / 2, 0.5], postEffect = false, t = time);
bottomEdge = y;
pixelRect = {
    top: topEdge,
    left: leftEdge,
    width: (rightEdge - leftEdge),
    height: (bottomEdge - topEdge),
    right: rightEdge,
    bottom: bottomEdge,
    center: [leftEdge + (rightEdge - leftEdge) / 2, topEdge + (bottomEdge - topEdge) / 2]
};
pixelRect.center;

[Filip Vandueren]

You would need to add parent.rotation:

((rotation+parent.rotation)%360).toFixed(2);

[Filip Vandueren]

That’s in preferences, I mean in project settings (where you also set color space)

[Filip Vandueren]

Can you go to your project settings and check that the expressions language is on “JavaScript”, it’s probably on Legacy Extendscript mode?

[Filip Vandueren]

I would use the audio waveform effect, and use that as an alpha matte for a second layer, that layer should just create blocks of color moving right to left. That could also be achieved by a simple particle system.

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Gerben,

try this:

startValue = effect("from")("Slider").value;
endValue = effect("to")("Slider").value;
startSecond = 1;
endSecond = 4;
v = ease(time, startSecond, endSecond, startValue, endValue);
new Intl.NumberFormat('nl-NL', {
    style: 'currency',
    currency: 'EUR',
    useGrouping: false
}).format(v);