[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey John, does animation just ends when extended in Premiere and remains static at the end, or how does it go? You mentioned original comp timecode – but is it end of last keyframe, or end of a whole comp?

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Ralph, one potential way could be by adding scripts into custom toolbar – while its not a hotkey, limitation is.. No limitation 😉

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Dan, thanks a lot for modified version of this! While I haven’t managed to make it work still, will try to break it down and see what could be the reason for it. Going to update here if figure it out, yet the setup I have is quite complex and unique for single-purpose I guess.

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Dan, thanks a lot for sharing! The way you described it gave me a thought to clarify it properly. But just in case, I tested your described approach and it indeed works – thus – thumbs up for that already! It fits.

I need to scale not the “shape” comp itself, but adjust the controller/null in the comp, that it would set/accommodate scale in the main composition, based on shape’s size in pre-comp.

Through logic tree, it would look like the following:

Inside comp Y:

“controller” null – which scale animates in time from value K to L
“shape” aka comp X based on my definition – parented to controller.
“Shape Layer 1” – path layer inside “shape” comp aka compX.

Essentially, I want to modify scale end-value “L”, to fit the shape’s path size in the precomp when scaling down. What it will do is to allow changing shape in the pre-comp, while making sure scaling happens up to the proper zooming level, fitting whole size of the shape (or even adding some padding). Unfortunately, I can’t modify “shape” scaling directly, because it is linked by other logic. Do you think it can be possible, or at least how to compensate the parenting when comparing scaling levels? Thanks a ton for any hint!

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

This looks amazing Filip, well done!!! And the good thing about it is that you made it as a preset – definitely something a lot easier for others to apply than understanding all the tiny pieces in a whole picture (less prone to errors when using – thus, less questions caused!)

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Only possible if you put that XXX phrase in a temporary text layer and get the width from there. Side note – font family & style must be identical.

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

If your scale is uniform, just do this:

10000/thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).transform.scale[0]

Scale is a 2D array and it contains x and y value.

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Elizabeth – something along those lines:

For your text layer’s Source Text:
text.sourceText + “|”

Then:
1. Apply Opacity Text Animator to the text layer;
2. Set opacity of animator to 0;
3. Set units in Advanced settings to Index;
4. For range selector, to start, apply this:
text.sourceText.length-1
5. For range selector, to end, apply this:
text.sourceText.length

What it will do is to add “|” and with opacity animator subtract it.

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Elizabeth – is font going to be changed in the mograph? Because if yes – then it wouldn’t work this way due to different heights for font families.

Instead its better to add characters with ascenders/descenders to the phrase, and eliminate them by text animator with opacity set to 0 for end characters (or apply ‘|’ to the end of all phrases in expression)

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

hey Andy, while I am not aware of such online-service, what you are referring to for your own usage could be used in a few ways. Here are some:

1. Create a preset for repetitive actions and apply them from Effects Panel.
2. Use 3rd party tools like KBar or similar from aescripts.com
3. Create your own UI panel if its somewhat long-term beneficial.