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Walter Soyka
November 23, 2018 at 12:15 pm in reply to: Text box anchor point from baseline

Scripts and expressions are different! I don’t think that the baselineLocs attribute is available to the expressions engine.

If you need an expressions-based system for this, please see the downsaved versions of the project file I posted earlier this week. It works on paragraphs/text boxes by inserting blank lines, and will help you bottom align arbitrary text on-the-fly.

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Walter Soyka
November 21, 2018 at 2:29 pm in reply to: Text box anchor point from baseline

[Marko Suto] “This “sourceText.value.baselineLocs” https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/after-effects/using/creating-editing-text-layers... under “Scripts and expressions for working with text” section, gave me hope I could use this array to get the Y position of the last line and use it as anchor point. But I don’t know how to define array and how to read the “N-1″ value from the array.”

Nice! You’d do it like this:

// replace with a reference to your text layer textLayer = app.project.item(1).layer("OUTPUT TEXT");
// get the baselineLocs array, then peel off the last value baselineLocs = textLayer.property("Text").property("Source Text").value.baselineLocs; lastBaselineY = baselineLocs[baselineLocs.length-1];

And here are the downsaved versions of the project I did earlier this morning:
12902_textbaseline.zip.zip

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
November 21, 2018 at 12:01 pm in reply to: Text box anchor point from baseline

I don’t know that there is a way to get the baseline, but you could use normal top alignment, measure the text, and insert line breaks as necessary to hit the target number of lines and force a bottom-alignment.

Attached, a project that demonstrates this with expressions. Put text into INPUT TEXT (which could be done programmatically, and which could be made invisibile), and observe the bottom alignment on in OUTPUT TEXT:

12901_textbaseline.aep.zip

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
November 21, 2018 at 3:54 am in reply to: Create Controller for Attributes (size, opacity, tracking, etc.) of Multiple Text Layers

You’re welcome, Austin.

There are some really good resources right here at the COW if you want to dig in more. Andrew Devis has a good series here that covers a lot of different areas in Ae:
https://library.creativecow.net/product-tutorials-category.php?tablename=adobeaftereffectsbasics&category=andrewdevis

It’s not necessary to learn expressions to use Ae at a high level — but it sure helps. There are some good recommendations for expressions resources here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/docs/forums/post.php?forumid=227&postid=36602&univpostid=36602&pview=t

And ask questions! There are lots of people here who are happy to help.

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
November 20, 2018 at 3:38 pm in reply to: Clone stamp tool – Rendering black

[Dennis Squadrazzino] “The adjusted layer has this blue kind of rectangle symbol next to the layer name.”

That’s a guide layer — a layer that’s visible in the viewer, but is NOT included when precomped or rendered for output. Select the layer, then from the Layer menu in the menu bar, click “Guide layer” to toggle.

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/layer-properties.html#guide_layers

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
November 20, 2018 at 11:18 am in reply to: Create Controller for Attributes (size, opacity, tracking, etc.) of Multiple Text Layers

Not simple, but here’s one way to do it.

1) Create a comp for your text, animate it however you like, and use the Essential Graphics Panel to make its text a master property. (For more, see https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/creating-motion-graphics-templates.html)

2) Space out multiple layers of that text precomp in your main comp, and change the text however you need.

3) Write some expressions linking the Time Remapping property to its position in the comp. This way, the text comes into focus as it moves into place, and you only have to worry about animating the position property.

Here’s a sample:
12897_slidingtextitems.aep.zip

This is pretty elegant, flexible, and fast to change — but it’s not simple to understand or to build in the first place and I imagine you’ll have questions. Please feel free to ask away and I’ll do my best to explain.

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
November 20, 2018 at 10:29 am in reply to: Creating Video Transition Presets for Premiere inside of After Effects

There is no native Ae/Pr solution quite like Avid and Boris Red. Your best bet is probably still Red (!) or maybe Sapphire Builder (also from Boris).

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
November 19, 2018 at 8:33 pm in reply to: You are the first beta-test forum of the new system

[Scott Witthaus] “Fair enough. I have created and run my own shops too. I just thought it interesting with the “play my way or go home”. Not sure I would do that to “clients” I value.”

Are they clients if they don’t pay?

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
November 18, 2018 at 11:46 am in reply to: Extract Composition and all it’s necessaries from BIG project?

1) Save a backup copy of your AEP file — just in case.

2) Select the composition you want to keep in the project panel.

3) File > Dependencies > Reduce Project. Ae will remove everything from the project except for the comp you’ve selected, and any other project items it requires (assets, nulls, solids, precomps and everything nested within them).

4) Save AS (so you don’t overwrite your original).

You can also use Collect Files afterwards to copy all referenced files to one single place for easy transfer, or you can use Collect Files in place of Reduce Project in step 3 (it also has a Reduce Project option).

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
November 16, 2018 at 12:09 pm in reply to: A skew on the old ‘legacy’ issue of opening older AE projects

Ae ships with a script to swap out the old blur effects for the new ones.

Try File > Scripts > UpgradeLegacyBlurs.jsx.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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