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Wick Van den belt replied to the discussion Expression to link other layers, when auto-scaling text. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:38:35 +0000

Reply to Expression to link other layers, when auto-scaling text.

Hi Adam, yes that is pretty much correct. So for just two text layers this is easy, as the anchor point for text 1 is on the bottom and for text2 the anchor point is on the top of that text layer. (So for big or small text size, they both scale of and the gap between them stays the same…)

The issue is with the third text layer; I am trying to…

Wick Van den belt started the discussion Expression to link other layers, when auto-scaling text. in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 10:20:12 +0000

Expression to link other layers, when auto-scaling text.

Hi cows! I am trying out some expressions and I get stuck.

Let’s say I have three text layers that I want to put on top of each other like this:

TEXT1
TEXT2
TEXT3

Where the bottom of text layer one is parented to the top of text layer 2, and the top of text later 3 is parents to the bottom of text layer 2.

I have an expression on these text layers to…

Wick Van den belt replied to the discussion Script for TSV importing in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 13:50:50 +0000

Reply to Script for TSV importing

thank you for your helpful comment thus far! I am investigating it further based on that!

I need to keep tabs on what I am writing as I am not a programmer, so I kinda need the comments to keep track of the script. But thanks for your compliment 🙂

Also, I have possibly found a new way to improve the image precomp duplication by looking at the…

Wick Van den belt started the discussion Script for TSV importing in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:08:39 +0000

Script for TSV importing

Hi Forum and its legends!

I am trying to create a script that can import a TSV file and a AE-project file to use its content to create duplicates of the compositions. I am quite new to scripting, although I do understand expressions up to some extend. Over time I want to expand the scripts functions to suit the needs of certain projects, but I am…