[TIneke Van Schalkwyk]

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 text, [-100,0] for left aligned, [100,0] for right aligned)”

[TIneke Van Schalkwyk]

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

[TIneke Van Schalkwyk]

Sorry!

Try this screen grab

[TIneke Van Schalkwyk]

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?

[TIneke Van Schalkwyk]

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?

[TIneke Van Schalkwyk]

So, I removed the line at the end to do with the font style as that what was causing the error to see if I could get the rest of the expression functioning correctly as a starting point.
However, it removes the last word which is a bit of an issue ☺

This was the line I removed incase you need to know but I don’t think that is what is causing the last word to be removed:
style.setFont(ctrlStyle.font).setText(val).setFontSize(ctrlStyle.fontSize);

Any ideas?

[TIneke Van Schalkwyk]

Thanks Andrei!
Should it work if I copy and paste exactly what you have posted?
I get an “Error: Layer index 0 out of range”

[TIneke Van Schalkwyk]

No that doesn’t matter to me.

[TIneke Van Schalkwyk]

I’ve also got another thread for how we can make a version of this that allows for three lines if you wanted to also comment there.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1144665

[TIneke Van Schalkwyk]

Thanks!

I managed to fix it by changing the font part as I needed it pulling the font from the source text of the field not the font of the text field if that makes sense. So was an easy fix.

style.setFont(comp(“00 Color Control”).layer(“Headline Text Font Style”).text.sourceText).setText(val);