[Trent Armstrong]

Adam,

That is good info. I think the problem, at least for the syntax, was the braces for the if/then statement.

if (something) {this} else {that}

— or —

if (something) {

this

} else {

that

}

I’m not sure about your exponential movement issue, but you might need to multiply the height * .5.

We’re all pulling for you!

[Trent Armstrong]

Adam,

I’m curious if it’s not doing what you want or if it’s breaking. I realized after much gnashing of teeth that the new expression engine asks for more coding language like:

if (a>32) {[960,540]} else {[960, 640]}

Kevin may have gotten you to the right place, but I wanted to make sure you’re not experiencing a “gotcha”.

Trent

[Trent Armstrong]

Hey there!

I created a text layer with two lines and added an expression slider to that layer called “Adjust me”. And I set the value of the slider to 100. Then I used this expression in the Source Text expression field.

s = effect(“Adjust Me”)(“Slider”);

style.setFontSize(s).setLeading(s);

Try that out and let me know if you have any questions.

[Trent Armstrong]

Awesome stuff! Yeah. I messed around with mine a bit, and it works better with the Null (and expressions attached box) sitting on the bottom edge of the top layer instead of being offset.

Maybe I’ll be able to help next time! 😉

[Trent Armstrong]

Try this aep:

https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/68502bc0-057c-4b88-7e3f-965ba4d5c038

[Trent Armstrong]

It’s a bummer, but AE doesn’t have the ability to have two different fonts in one text layer through expressions, yet. If you’re trying to keep “layers” to a minimum and not necessarily compositions, you could do what Chris suggests. Create a Comp that has the names in the style you want, use an expression to read the comp name and split it up, then just duplicate that comp for as many of the names as you want.

It’s not exactly what you want, but it’s a work around until that functionality is available. I’m sure there are other ways, too.

[Trent Armstrong]

Great stuff!

[Trent Armstrong]

That’s pretty awesome! I hope it looks good for you!

[Trent Armstrong]

So sorry. I haven’t had time to look at this again. I actually think you might need to precomp and offset the layers in time if you want to have the all at 5 fps but offset.

[Trent Armstrong]

I’m interested in whatever happens in this thread!