[Filip Vandueren]

Can you post the expression ?

[Filip Vandueren]

this is a really good course:

https://www.animoplex.com/learn/expressions.html#101

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Nick,

I’m not sure why. I don’t have a scripting setup available at the moment to test, sorry.

[Filip Vandueren]

I think Google doesn’t allow using their maps in videos without licensing.

You can check if openstreetmap coupled with something like https://openmaptiles.org/docs/style/maputnik/ fits your need.

[Filip Vandueren]

You’d need to add a (“ADBE Vector Shape – Group”) to (“Contents”) before you can add the (“ADBE Vector Shape”) to that new Group

[Filip Vandueren]

CC Time Blend Effects offers a Copy/Paste buffer, but it can be very buggy which is why it was removed from the app many years ago. (You can still get them via a workaround though, see Jake’s video for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7NVnad9Bhc )

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If you are talking about just the photography stuff, not the handdrawn animation at the start, you can find many many tutorials if you search for the parallax effect:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=after+effects+parallax+tutorial

I even have a movie with a few extra tips I don’t see mentioned often:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmF1J-dWG0k

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Hi Antonio,

go to the keyboard shortcuts and search for “Dialog”.

You’ll see the list of all shortcuts to instantly jump to numerical entry (Edit in Dialog Box).

For example, on Mac, cmd-shift-O to enter the opacity value.

[Filip Vandueren]

Sorry, forgot to get back to you.

Note that if you’ve added a margin between the layers as I did in my example, you’ll also want to add half of that margin

[Filip Vandueren]

If all you need is the smaller text to move to the right if the name gets longer, then parent it to the first text, and give the position this expression:

margin=60;
sr=parent.sourceRectAtTime();
[sr.left+sr.width+margin,0];

As for the shape layer:

add a shape layer, give it a path, give the path this expression:

margin = 60;
t1=thisComp.layer("John");
s1=t1.sourceRectAtTime();
t2=thisComp.layer("• This text layer adapts");
s2=t2.sourceRectAtTime();
l = t1.toComp([s1.left, s1.top])[0] - margin;
r = t2.toComp([s2.left+s2.width, s1.top])[0] + margin;
t = Math.min(t1.toComp([s1.left, s1.top])[1], t2.toComp([s2.left+s2.width, s2.top])[1]) - margin;
b = Math.max(t1.toComp([s1.left, s1.top+s1.height])[1], t2.toComp([s2.left+s2.width, s2.top+s2.height])[1]) + margin;
createPath( [fromComp([l,t]), fromComp([r,t]), fromComp([r,b]), fromComp([l,b])], [],[], true);

add a Fill and a Round Corners modifier.