[Yoan Boisjoli]

Yeah I started playing with it! It’s pretty cool! I’ve had the brackets “[]” replace with a zero width space (“\u200b”) so I can easily target it with other expression selector (color for example).

I’ll try to see if I can have the spaces between words be highlighted too when more than a word is selected in between brackets. I’ll let you know !

[Yoan Boisjoli]

FILIP ! This is amazing !!

How did you create this? Man I think it would’ve taken me ages to to come up with that solution!

The bad solution I was getting to experiment with was duplicating the text layer and have the effect shift channels to “full on” which made squares under the text thus respecting the characters width.

What is calculations? That’s the only thing I can’t get me head around!

I’m still flabbergasted haha wow ?

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Oh yes how did I ever forget about the linear() and ease() functions! These are life savers!

Thanks Trent!

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Hi!

First method that can work is with a simple if/else statement. i.e.: if time is smaller than keyframe’s time apply expression, else apply keyframes value.

Second method would be just like Dan said, link the expression to an expression controller and keyframe the controllers.

Let me know if it answers your question!

Cheers!

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Wow it looks amazing! Good job Filip!

Can’t wait to open the file as soon as I get home! ?

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Oh yeah multiple boxes sounds interesting! In my case I’m trying to have a way of writing words within brackets and automatically having these words being highlighted. I’m afraid the person using the mogrt might be confused with the index numbers to control the selection area.

I’ll keep working on it and you keep working on yours hehe maybe we can compare our work 😛

oh by the way not sure I understood 100% when you wrote “I’ll probably dinsdags it tonight.”

I think dutch autocorrect got you and confused “keep working on” with “tuesdays” hahaha am I right?

[Yoan Boisjoli]

I think you could do it with this script:

http://aescripts.com/pt_expressedit/

All you’d need to do is search and replace the old path to the new one.

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Hi Callum! What happens if you simply parent the layers to the null? Does it work?

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Hi Filip!

Thanks for replying! Your method is very clever! However, in my case, I need to be able to isolate more than a word.

I managed to make something (see file attached) where a second text layer calculates how many characters there are in the top text layer (excluding punctuation and spaces) and replaces the letter for “N” with a super heavy stroke on it so it appears like squares.

Now my next step is to rig the same set up as in the smart highlighter preset to be able to put some words in between a set of characters (i.e.: The word [color] is now in square brackets so it would be highlighted.”

The only potential issue is that some letter are thinner than the letter “N”. Like if you have a sentence with many letters “I” the highlighted part might look a bit longer.

Let me know if this makes sense to you !

Thanks and have a good day !

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[Yoan Boisjoli]

Here’s the link to the reference image:

https://www.computerhope.com/issues/pictures/highlight.jpg