[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Filip,

but what about Y comparison between the lines? Do you have an idea for this?

For me it looks like huge bottleneck to compare these with expressions as the author is planning to do one way or another!

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Jo, in addition to opacity, include scale into Text Animation. Set it to zero – and magic will happen (:

I been confused with this myself in the past too, until I noticed that adding ‘Scale’ does the trick!

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Matthew, most likely you are not able to make values to change, because they are not defined in time.

Meaning, in order to make values animated, they should be mapped in a timeframe. Could you share a stripped down sample .csv, or even consolidated .aep alongside to help you directly? That just allows making suggestions a lot faster and more convenient !

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Filip said it all spot on – its unfortunate, but its still true in 2020.

The only option to make custom style controls with expressions, would be applying text animation engine effects, and making custom ranges, to affect specific letters (if it is about the letters, otherwise – different logic). But it is a workaround, to FAKE different styles, not an actual way to set different fonts. Cheers!

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Ellie, this most likely would be possible to achieve. Few things:

1. Does blue bar (in this screenshot) changes its size at some point, or only color varies, keeping size static?
2. Do colors change instantly / popping into other shades, or transitions over time?

The idea would be applying Change to Color effect to red bar (with Hue, Saturation and Lightness option selected, and Change By set to “Transforming to Color”), and sample source color from the bar below. Meaning – change RED to X color, sampled from a fixed current blue bar location.

See this thread about color sampling: http://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=934

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Tom, first of – could you let me know which AutoCrop version do you have? Just in case to be on the same page. The reason why this is needed – in order to actually ‘run’ other script in your script, assuming its done though GUI, you need to hit that “Crop” button in the panel. To do this, button must be found in the object model. But thats for the later.

Now few other things:
1. How selection of comps will be made?
2. How many comps there might be?
3. What export output is needed, does .png works for you?

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Tineke – then caps lock in the first post on ‘evenly’ does not really make sense.

Reason – IF you have a superlongtextinoneline this won’t work nicely ! (:

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Tineke, just wondering – lines still remains not perfectly equal in sizes, due to different letters width. Is that an issue or not at all for you?

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Sergio, not sure whether it would be useful, but do you know a feature when hitting right mouse click on a marker, allows you to update marker names in in source comp? In case you are using marker names in some fashion, try it out!

Other than that, probably the easiest way to help you out would be getting hands on a project and seeing problem in front (:

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Avinash, check the code below, stripped it down from my scripts, but should be fine / close to it.

var logFileName = "build-log"; //Log file name
var scriptFolder = new File($.fileName).path; //Script path folder
var logFile = initiateLogFile(scriptFolder, logFileName);

logFile.open("a"); //Open file for appending
logFile.write("_____"); //Add your logging message
logFile.close(); //Always don't forget to close after writing the file

function initiateLogFile(rootLocation, rootTitle) {
var logFile = File(rootLocation.toString() + "/" + rootTitle + ".txt");
logFile.encoding = "UTF-8";
if (!logFile.exists) {
logFile.open("w");
logFile.close();
}
return logFile;
}

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