[Johnny Opamo]

Hey Dan,

Just to follow on from this. Everything’s working well but there are artist names for example that are too long. I’m able to scale them down to fit the comp but what I’m really looking for now is a line break so I can keep the source text linked with the comp name but also be able to have the artist name on two separate lines.

Is there any way to do this?

As a reminder

artist text expression is:

compName = thisComp.name
compName = thisComp.name.toLowerCase();
compName.substring(0, compName.indexOf(‘//’))

title text expression is:

compName = thisComp.name
compName.substring(compName.indexOf(‘//’)+2)
compName = thisComp.name.toLowerCase();
compName.substring(compName.indexOf(‘//’)+2,compName.indexOf(‘–‘) )

Thanks in advance

[Johnny Opamo]

Actually I’ve just tried that first expression but sandwiched it in the line between the original expression so it now works. Thanks Dan!!

[Johnny Opamo]

Hey Dan,

Thanks for this. I think it’s close. I’ve tried the expression you wrote for lowercase before and after the expression I already have. Before it ignores it, after it adds everything in lowercase but then also adds in the title text for example everything after “// title” which I’d like the artist text to ignore.

The second expression for the title text with the lowercase and ignoring a specific phrase works perfectly. Thanks for your help so far!

[Johnny Opamo]

I’m sending that through here directly, it’s just taking a while :/

[Johnny Opamo]

Here’s a download to the AE project file – this is the full 2 minute version.
I tried to split it up into 2 1 minute clips so it takes less time to render but it’s not working.

https://www.mediafire.com/?4kf51ujbs4ut4wb

[Johnny Opamo]

I’ve just tried rendering the rotoscope layer alone using the alpha channel but still it’s taking way too long for a minutes worth of footage. It says “rotoscope propogating” then counts from 1 to [which ever frame its on] so by the end it’ll have to count up from 1 to 1500. It’s taking around 30mins to an hour to render ONE frame. One out of 1500, this is ridiculous.

Is there any other solutions? Any other way I can render it out? I have important deadlines to meet and will fail if I don’t get this done.

[Johnny Opamo]

It’s just a minute long sequence in black and white with blur and echo effects on the middle layer and rotoscope on the top layer and the original video on the bottom layer. The video is in 1080p.