[Troy Poirier]

Thank you so much, Alex! I don’t know why your specific code didn’t work for me, but you set me off in the right direction with sourceRectAtTime(). I found a similar chunk of code from Dan Ebberts elsewhere that led me to the solution below. Only oddity in this code was that I had to add a “padding” variable in order for the position value to match the manual setting I had before. Not a big deal, and this saves me so much time!

// text layer
t = thisComp.layer("text");

// paragraph text height
r = t.sourceRectAtTime(time,true).height;

// font line height + padding
y = 75;
p = y + 5;

// paragraph height divided by line height = # of lines
n = r/y;

// removes any decimals
n = n.toFixed(0);

/* code below spits out the Y Position values
for my 2 keyframes based on knowledge of
how many lines, up to 8 lines */

lines = 340 + p;
c = 0;

do {
lines = lines - p;
c++;
}
while (n > 1 && n < 9 && n != c);

lines;

if (numKeys > 1){
k1 = key(1).time;
k2 = key(2).time;
v1 = lines;
v2 = 473;
linear(time, k1, k2, v1, v2);
} else {
value
}

[Troy Poirier]

Thanks for the response, Dan, I appreciate it. We don’t have a Tricaster unfortunately, but the gig I was prepping for has come and gone anyway, so I no longer have a reason to delve into this topic. That being said, the video you shared is very interesting and I’ll be sure to forward it along to my teammates who work with this kind of gear more often than I do.

[Troy Poirier]

Thanks, Dave. I had assumed the answer was no, but I couldn’t find any info (yes or no) about this online so I appreciate your response.

Cheers!