Thanks a lot. I was actually led astray by this School of Motion guide:

https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/anchor-point-expressions-in-after-effects

It explains the expressions very well except the variables they use simply won’t work right. Hard to believe they missed that, but just changing the variables to simple letters corrects it.

Hi guys. So this expression for Anchor Point works as expected when applied to a text layer, keeping the Anchor Point on the center right:

a = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime(4);
H = a.height;
W = a.width;
T = a.top;
L = a.left;
[L+W,T+H/2]

However, this expression does NOT work for some reason.

a = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime(4);
height = a.height;
width =…

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Thank you! I’ll see if I can make this work.

Hi guys. I want to import a CSV and create a nicely-formatted table. I understand how to pickwhip a text layer’s source text property to one particular piece of data in the CSV. However, I want to get the whole column into a single text layer. So let’s say the first column of my CSV is years, 2000 to 2022. How can I get a text layer filled with a…

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This is something I could almost certainly throw together with multiple layers and the Beam effect, but I wanted to challenge myself to do it all with one shape layer. I want to animate one of those ball bearing desk toys (the internet tells me they are properly called Newton’s Cradles). If this was a direct side view where each ball has a single…

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