I’m creating a lower third MOGRT and am having trouble keeping the elements aligned when I change the text. I have everything aligned perfectly with the placeholder text, but once I change the placeholder name, gaps show up between the different shapes and the right side of the shapes aren’t aligned, as shown in the screenshots. I imagine it has…

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I’m trying to put together a photo montage in AE. I put one photo in a designated photo comp and added that photo as an essential graphics property. When I duplicate the photo comp and try to replace the photo with another one, it doesn’t display in the comp viewer. It shows that the photo updated in the properties panel and in the essential…

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I’m creating an Instagram-style animation with a grid of photos and made one comp of a photo with a media replacement option. I need to extend the overall length of the comp and have done so for the initial comp with the media replacement, but the subsequent media replacement comps did not extend and I can’t access the comp settings for the media…

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I followed your code and got the following expression error:

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks!

Yeah, getting the indexes figured out is my next goal.

Thanks Dan!

UPDATE:

I realized the variables I had in the linear expression are not actually necessary and have simplified the expression as follows:

ease(thisComp.layer(“Effector”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”),25,540,[2020,540],[1114,540]);

However, when I copy the expression and change the X position, everything animates in and stops in the correct…

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I’m animating a series of vertical bars and trying to have them move in from either side of the frame and have them stop at specific points. The attached video is how I did by key framing each individual bar’s position property and staggering the layers. However, I’m trying to make it easier to customize the speed in which they animate in and out…

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Dan, you are a lifesaver. It works! Thank you so much!

Gotcha. Thank you so much! I’ll play around with some simpler text animation that play nicer with those expressions.

Sweet. Thank you!

The text animation is just a preset animation in the effects panel.

What do I put in the fields with question marks?

Awesome! It is attached. Thanks for taking a look and helping me out.

Would it be helpful if I upload a version of the AE project? There’s no linked files, only native shapes and text.

Thanks for the reply, Dan!

I currently have the following expression in the rectangle’s size property connecting the X value to the width of the text layer:

“var s = thisComp.layer(“Text”);

var start = s.inPoint;

var end = s.outPoint;

var mid = (end-start)/2;

var w = s.sourceRectAtTime(mid).width;

var h = s.sourceRectAtTime(mid).height;

[w,h];”

I removed…

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I’m creating a lower third that dynamically resizes based on the person’s name and I’ve added a checkbox expression to allow users to change between a rectangle and a rounded rectangle. To animate in, I simply scaled the box on the X axis. It works great for just the rectangle, but when it is a rounded rectangle, it starts out with 90 degree…

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That worked perfectly! Thank you so much!

Hello!

I’m creating a relatively simple lower third graphic with text, a background shape which resizes according to the length of text via the sourceRectAtTime expression, and a logo on the right side of the background shape (I attached a photo for reference). I’m trying to figure out a way to ensure the logo maintains the same position on the… Read more