[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Dan, thanks for your response. I think you got it right! Example here could help, see intro in the beginning: https://www.instagram.com/p/CS7QKyPJoNK/

On the left, there is a 90 degrees rotated phrase. The characters count in that line might change based on the topic, as well as the height of main topic title in orange (1-4 lines)

You can see a different layout here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CS7B6egjJ8E/

In an ideal scenario, I want rotated phrase to always extend/contract based on height of phrase on the right.

By simply setting tracking based on “tens” of value – doesn’t work, because this value is not consistent (based on characters and their width, I assume).

Maybe there is a different way, but I only figured out this through applying tracking, either through expression to source, or via text animation engine. I still haven’t reached stable working solution, but will keep trying. If anyone else have a different approach for such thing – it would be amazing if you share your thought process. I can figure out from that how to do it, maybe its a matter of different angle of viewing at it 🙂 Thanks!

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

What I noticed with shapes – they have some “hidden” parameters which are not seen through a UI GUI and are hard to logically understand.

With Gimme Props try to selecting different depth params and you will see what I mean – this especially relates to “Contents”.

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Fabian, you could try to translate timeremap value to frames (thus it would return a digit, not a timestamp) and that might work. Add timeremap value to timeToFrames() method and see how it goes from there !

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Are you sure its because of the length? Could you try to calculate sourceRectAtTime for that layer, to inspect its actual pixels widths?

In addition, make sure text is not box-area-text, but plain one (no boundaries set, just in case)

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

It really depends whether you have any prior programming language experience, logical muscle ready for that, or not. If not – then general course will do great for starters. If yes – then more specifics on expressions would be the way to go.

Most importantly – practice, practice and practice. Don’t just watch courses – re-write whats being shown. That is the fastest way towards mastery. You learn not only by watching, but doing simultaneously – twice the speed.

Then, put that practice to actual experimentation with things – knowledge without practical usage rusts faster than you expect it to do 🙂

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Robert, some info is missing.

1. Should it go up in time (animated) or just move by 100px instantly?
2. Does it need to go down?

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

A bit simper one:

numArray = [1,10,5,3]

Math.max.apply(null, numArray)

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Or you can define full absolute path in the include / relative one with backslashes syntax?

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Martin, it would be better if you share specifically a line 20 (to know where error is coming at) and all lines above which are related.

In addition, please share whole error message – as now its truncated and might point out to the problem by itself.

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Daniel, the task itself needs a bit more clarification here.

1. You want to put N clips in the comp, incrementally one after another, varying lengths. To do that, drag and drop clips into the comp, select all of them, right click, Keyframe Assistant and Choose Sequence Layers. They will become ordered by in/out points. Thats probably the first step you need to do.
2. Playbacking – thats not clear enough, but lets see. In a new comp, you need to drop composition created at 1st step. Thus, here you will have a single layer in the comp. Now, considering that, you prefer to have a playback, which randomly picks sections from the main edit and creates a sort of “reel”?
3. To compliment 2nd point – you mentioned “export them as new clips”. What do you want to export here, as its in plural? Multiple random edits of 2nd step or something else?