Thank you Flip!

Those extra notes were what I was missing.
Works perfectly!

“Don’t forget to set the text’s Anchor Point grouping to Line also (Text -> More options) otherwise only the individual characters will become smaller in place.

Depending on your paragraph alignment, you might also need to adjust the Grouping Alignment ([0,0] for centered tex…

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Change font size or scale of lines based on number of characters in the line. I have text over multiple keyframes (markers) to be used as captions and want to create some randomness to the font size.

I would be using 3 sizes:
>7, 120
between 7 and 12, 100
<12, 80

For example in the following text the two lines would end up with different font sizes (or…

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Ok, I’ve saved the ae file if you are able to take a look by any chance?
I use pt_subtitles plugin to import the captions from an srt file which creates the text layer.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gptxbz47jt5wu7t/expressionerror.aep?dl=0

Sorry!

Try this screen grab

These 2 scripts (written by Dan) work for a basic text layer but when I try and apply it to my captions text layer which has layer markers (keyframes) to break the text into slides it's not working. Error is shown in image.

txt = thisComp.layer("Input Text").text.sourceText;
txt.replace(/[[]']+/g,'');txt = thisComp.layer("Input…

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Very helpful!

It works great on my test text layers but when I apply it to one that has key frames (for captions) it has an error.
Any ideas?

Do you think it is possible to rotate the text at each marker along the layer cycling through:
0, -5, 0, 5 degrees.

Thanks Fliip, this seems to do the trick!

I’ve also been setting the style of the font using this expression:
style.setFont(comp(“00 Color Control”).layer(“Headline Text Font Style”).text.sourceText);

Just wondering how I can include this in the code provided?