This video explained the "why" behind the code so well! I rewatched it a gazillion times in the last 2 weeks and shared the link with coworkers who had similar questions. Just wanted to say thanks!!
i watched lots of video on youtube for sourcereactAtTime but buddy yours is the best....its explains everything about this expression and i loved the way you explained this.. loved it...
Six years later and you're still amazing... Why I ask you, WHY? Please don't anymore. And in 2030 when I've caught up to 2024 tutorials, I shall speak the same words... "Just WHY" (ps Don't ever stop! I need something to look forward to... besides Sto'Vo'Kor.)
Not sure if i missed something...but between adding the size/2 and talking about the top and left expression your expression on the position for the rectangle completely changed
I can't find the words, when people put a smile while sharing knowledge... Thanks to you I've got what I was searching for A text with anchro point always centered A box autoresizing by the text input and at a certain distance, calculated on the size of the box from a specific point! Thanks a LOT!
For anyone struggling with the first step, make sure your paragraphing is centred and not left aligned The anchor point will take placement based on the alignment
Jake, you deserve more sub! you are better than anyone else here in youtube in explaining everything on your content. Looking after for ur next tutorials.
There is a few videos about SourceRectAtTime, but this is awesome, you explain very well the concept and how to fix some issues to deal with. Thanks for share!
I tried it and it works. Thks! But because in Portuguese we caracteres like 'ç' and 'ã', height gets going up and down and messing around with the layout. I did the following adjustment to your code. For size s=thisComp.layer("text 1"); w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width; [w,content("Rectangle Path 1").size[1]]; For position s=thisComp.layer("text 1"); w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width/2; l=s.sourceRectAtTime().left; [w+l,content("Rectangle Path 1").position[1]]; Of course you must have a better ideia, but this one works also. My best.
Amazing tutorial, Jake! I'm hoping to create a MOGRT from this to save a ton of time! In case anyone else is having an issue when compensating for the offset path: there's a cut at 16:42 that resets the box's position to 0,0. I didn't notice this and my position wasn't at zero, so when I finished linking the position to the anchor point, my box would end up not aligned with the text. I had to go back to the beginning and retry with those position values at zero.
Thank you so much for incredible work you've done with this tutorial, this is very informative, there was couple moments where I lost, but need to rewatch it couple time to figure out all stuff. You're awesome. Thank you.
Welcome to UA-cam Jake! Love your Skillshare classes!! I would love to watch more of these expression related videos as we don't get to see those kind of videos that much anywhere! :D
Great work you are a great teacher, however I did have a hard time following along. I wouldn't say I am an after effects beginner but very limited in my expression javascript knowledge. I am using the latest version of adobe CC so maybe it has some things to do with the anchor points not finding each other between layers. This is my second attempt. I do suggest using less plugins and creating the FX from scratch as I got loss between them and had to figure it out myself. Thanks again.
Alright so i know this video is 2 years old, however i noticed theres a cut right at 8:36. you changed the code slightly on the position on the shape layer from just thisComp.Layer("text")/2 and changed it by copying the other expression and adding /2 on to the end of the width and height. I had trouble the first time i watched this but figured it out eventually. not sure if this is related but just in case anyone has the same problem i did.
@@randallhernandez1644 Just copy the size expression to the position and add /2 - it is the same like it was before, but there is X axis and Y axis separately, which we need in next step
Jake! Your works have been an amazing inspirations for me ever since I stumbled upon your skillshare tutorials during my motion class at uni. I am so excited that you are starting this UA-cam channel!! Keep it up :) and thanks for all your works!
Thank you so much. I'm just starting to work with expressions. Still it's rocket science to me, since I have no experience with coding at all. But thanks to your videos, I actually kind of get to understanding how they work (I guess). :)
offset paths, begone, link size instead to padding then rounded corners work... Don't forget to set text at -1 to Ég so height can be set set at time at t-1...
Thanks so much for the great tutorial, it was really easy to follow! I was wondering if you had multiple LAYERS of text, each with their own shape, and you wanted to keep the shapes left-aligned, how would you do that? Each different character has it's own kerning, for example, the letter "A" has a different left position to the letter "C". How would you compensate for that difference?
Hi Jake! Just found your tutorial and it's really one of the best tuts I ever watched. On the one hand because I needed to solve exactly this problem :) , but also because it's explained so damn well! Thanks a lot! Hope for more to come! Only one thing: I did not understand the "mid"-variable-calculation.
Fantastic job Jake...really appreciate you taking the time to lay this out in such an easy-to-follow video! I did have a question that I wasn't able to solve on my end that maybe you could comment on. I like having the anchor point of the shape layer in the upper left corner...any way of changing that to different locations? Instead of having it scale from the left...it'd be nice to have one from the bottom or right side. Thanks in advance!
Happy to see you on UA-cam, Jake. Your Skillshare classes have been very much useful for me. Another channel added to my motion design library. What kind of videos did you plan for the channel? I will ask for the motion design skills related than the tool(After Effects) related. Something like SoM would say, master the craft than the tool.
Love this in-depth tutorial. Super useful. How ever, I’m trying to apply these to a specifically designed txt box asset, that has a certain margin on the left and a certain margin on the right, and the offset trick scales the text box up uniformly. Also animating the transform scale will squash the round corners any way around these two issues?
Great and unique explainings tutorials... I really like your approach of making this things more understandable... Not just copy pasting a code from video description. Thumbs up and spot on my friend Cheers
The cut at 7:50 was really confusing. Suddenly the expression in Position was changed and it took me forever to find out I did not do anything wrong. A little sloppy for a tutorial
TNice tutorialS IS WHAT I NEEDED BRO, thank you for taking the ti and doing tNice tutorials for most of that are starting with tNice tutorials beautiful tNice tutorialng called
Really clear and helpful tutorial - I was wondering how you made that color swatch on the side. I would find that very useful, as a work around I have a png in my project, click on it and pick the color as I need them but your way seems much more efficient. Have a great day, and useful video, thanks for putting out!!
When the box does not follow the w and h, it might be due to the text not starting at the beginning of the composition. I have my text typed out at the start and arranged them to different frames, which caused the box to only play at the start, not when the text actually exists.
The amazing tutorial I came accross Jake!! 🤩🤩 First of all a big thanks for the nice explanation to understand. However, I would like to ask a question as I am following this tutorial to make some responsive templates, I was wondering if I could set up a character limit for the text, I tried with substring (0,0), which actually worked, but I want to set a limit as length not height. But with the substring how I would define length and height for the typing limit. Hope I am clear with my question with my bad English!! 🙈
Hey Jake Thanks many Tonnnnnnns....... your videos are just like life saviours for many MO Artists. Jake could you suggest us any particular source to learn especially about expressions from a-z. Also you pls keep on posting these valuable tutorials on expressions fundamentals and usage.
Please explain how you create a text box that resizes over two or more lines of text when you have a long sentence (without manually adding 'enter' at the point you want the new line), I can only get this to work on 1 line of text. BTW I recently completed your Explainer Camp, awesome!
Amazing Tutorial. You are a great teacher. But, i have a dude. How is possible the shape layer react on the second text and choice which is more longer to self-resize?
it was all great except once you jumped in (7':14") which you parented the position based on the size of Textbox divided by 2 using (content("TextBox").content("TextBox").size/2;), but a little bit further, all of a sudden you've replaced the code with (var var w = s.sourceRectAtTime().width/2; & etc). it was a little bit confusing but thanks a lot for you Great guidance!
Very helpful! I do want somethign different. I want the font to skew in width from 100 in a text box. The box size remains, but the font gets skinner within the space.
Hi, thank's for this video. Is it possible to have an expression that makes move an object at the end of a text? For example i would like to have a little line that will go to the end of a word, it will change of position at each word, du to differents lengths? So the goal should be to get the postion of the last letter of each text. Many thank's for your help.
Your equation sounds more correct than mine, but I tested it out and it didn't work. Somehow that equation is looking at the mid point of the layer, but in relation to the start of the comp. I'll be honest, I don't exactly know why mine works and yours doesn't, but I think it may have something to do with sourceRectAtTime possibly basing time on the layer, and not the comp. I really can't say for sure what's going on, but when it works, it works :).
Love the setup, you can really tell what's going on! And that was my original approach too, but for some reason sourceRectAtTime doesn't look at those values the same way. Check out my modified version of your aep and you'll see what I mean: www.dropbox.com/s/2iy598p9hnyy1a5/Mid%20Point%20Test.aep?dl=0 If you set keyframes on the End value from 100% - 0%, the box goes away.
Hey Jake, really like the new UA-cam format. You nailed it (again), in a smooth learning curve :) Thank you! Any idea to set the rectangle height directly to the maximum height of the text (including ascenders and descenders) even without b, q, g, y... or capital letters in our text layer?
Hmm that's a tricky one. You may need to just hard code the height manually. I can't think of a way to have the box size its height to a character that isn't actually on the line of text.
Fabien Rousseau hey this is what I'm trying to do. I need to keep the height of the box consistent even when using (y, j, g etc) or accented letters (ä, é etc) but the box changed in height. It's also shifts position a few pixels when using certain letters. Did you find a way to do this?
Hi, I ended up with adding slider controls where I duplicated by hand the font size of the text. Then I set up the width expression to look at the sourceRectAtTime, and the height for this hardcoded values. For multiline text, it's a bit trickier, so I added a line height control. It's still not ideal because you have to break lines by hand, as we can't get the line count of wrapped lines in the text area. Though I'm sure it's possible to do it with further investigation, eg. looking to the sourceRectAtTime height and map this value to deduct the line amount. You can look at the AE file here: www.dropbox.com/s/ungal7h3kbf4s01/sourceRecAtTime_Fix_Height_180517.aep?dl=0 Hope this helps!
Really great video and good pace! In my case it is not a perfectly square rectangle, but a slightly tilted rectangle (rectangle with diagonal ends). Hence the "size" effect for the Rectangle Path 1 is not available. For my shape I only get an effect "path". How can I then address the x,y or width,height?
Great tutorial, I have a question I have this code for a subtitle text box : text=thisComp.layer(""); width=tex.sourceRectAtTime(time-tex.inPoint,true).width+45; startS = 12; if ( marker.numKeys > 0){
Thank you for this video. I am wondering if it is possible using expressions in After Effects to create functionality like Premiere has called "Responsive Design - Position"? I want to create a sidebar with multiple lines of text that could be 1, 2 or 3 lines as the first bullet point and then the following 2nd text bullet point below the 1st text bullet point, which could be 1, 2 or 3 lines long as well, would auto-follow with set distance between each bullet so the line spacing is more than the space between the line space of each individual text point? Is there a way to separate the y-axis of the position as that is the only variable I need to change between text bullet points? This would be saved as a mogrt and that is why the text bullet points vary. I have been asked to create this in After Effects, save as a mogrt to be used in Premiere.
Thanks for this really useful! If I could ask for a tip? How would you have "borders" growing together with the box/background but only on the top and bottom of it?
Great tutorial. Comprehensive and conceptual. Thank you! I do have one question, is there a way to dynamically link the source of the shape layer? When i duplicate my text & shape layer the shape layer expression source remains bound to the original text layer it was created for. I want it to reference the newly duplicated text layer. Any help is appreciated.
Hi Jake In Motion, I think your tutorial is great and simple, I'm trying to figure out how can I resolve this: I have two dynamic boxes/titles that should have a relationship with each other. The two boxes contain titles and are on top of each other on the Y-axis. I would like an expression that makes both boxes/titles expand to the width of the longer box/title, i.e. The one with the longer text dictates the width of the titles. I used this expression for the boxes: title = thisComp.layer("Title").sourceRectAtTime();padding = effect("Padding")("Slider");[title.width + padding, title.height + padding]; Thank you for any help!
Thanks a lot! Very interesting! But I have questions: How make auto scale text, without change invisible box? Text auto scaling, when adding letters& Thank's!
Wow, the explanation is SO GOOD and the content is still updated even 5 years after publication! Thank you very much.
Man, I've only whatched 10 minutes of this and I can say you save my hole life. I'll always be in debt with you. Thanks a lot!
This video explained the "why" behind the code so well! I rewatched it a gazillion times in the last 2 weeks and shared the link with coworkers who had similar questions. Just wanted to say thanks!!
i watched lots of video on youtube for sourcereactAtTime but buddy yours is the best....its explains everything about this expression and i loved the way you explained this..
loved it...
Six years later and you're still amazing... Why I ask you, WHY? Please don't anymore. And in 2030 when I've caught up to 2024 tutorials, I shall speak the same words... "Just WHY" (ps Don't ever stop! I need something to look forward to... besides Sto'Vo'Kor.)
Not sure if i missed something...but between adding the size/2 and talking about the top and left expression your expression on the position for the rectangle completely changed
This just saved me on a freelance gig. I'm not even religious but God bless you and your channel
Dude seriously, this is super helpful. Thanks a ton for this excellent tutorial!
I can't find the words, when people put a smile while sharing knowledge... Thanks to you I've got what I was searching for
A text with anchro point always centered
A box autoresizing by the text input and at a certain distance, calculated on the size of the box from a specific point! Thanks a LOT!
The way you detail the expression is very useful! You should go deep with every expression possible
For anyone struggling with the first step, make sure your paragraphing is centred and not left aligned
The anchor point will take placement based on the alignment
Jake, you deserve more sub! you are better than anyone else here in youtube in explaining everything on your content. Looking after for ur next tutorials.
There is a few videos about SourceRectAtTime, but this is awesome, you explain very well the concept and how to fix some issues to deal with. Thanks for share!
I’ve been trying to figure out how do get this style for my subtitles for AGES. Thank you so much.
Great tutorial - about 60 seconds in I knew I was out of my depth but you kept me engaged to the end. (Maybe I'm a masochist).
This channel is now my third favourite motion graphic tut channel
Thank you! What are your top two?
Jake In Motion mt mograph, Matt Wilson and also video copilot
Nice! I'll have to check out Matt Wilson.
This was the simplest and most effective explanation on the topic, thanks!
I tried it and it works. Thks! But because in Portuguese we caracteres like 'ç' and 'ã', height gets going up and down and messing around with the layout. I did the following adjustment to your code.
For size
s=thisComp.layer("text 1");
w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width;
[w,content("Rectangle Path 1").size[1]];
For position
s=thisComp.layer("text 1");
w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width/2;
l=s.sourceRectAtTime().left;
[w+l,content("Rectangle Path 1").position[1]];
Of course you must have a better ideia, but this one works also. My best.
the quality of this content is on point
Amazing tutorial, Jake! I'm hoping to create a MOGRT from this to save a ton of time! In case anyone else is having an issue when compensating for the offset path: there's a cut at 16:42 that resets the box's position to 0,0. I didn't notice this and my position wasn't at zero, so when I finished linking the position to the anchor point, my box would end up not aligned with the text. I had to go back to the beginning and retry with those position values at zero.
Excited for your new channel! I've learned a lot from your Skillshare classes 👍
Thank you so much for incredible work you've done with this tutorial, this is very informative, there was couple moments where I lost, but need to rewatch it couple time to figure out all stuff. You're awesome. Thank you.
Welcome to UA-cam Jake! Love your Skillshare classes!! I would love to watch more of these expression related videos as we don't get to see those kind of videos that much anywhere! :D
I have a loooot of expressions tutorials planned!
Great work you are a great teacher, however I did have a hard time following along. I wouldn't say I am an after effects beginner but very limited in my expression javascript knowledge. I am using the latest version of adobe CC so maybe it has some things to do with the anchor points not finding each other between layers. This is my second attempt. I do suggest using less plugins and creating the FX from scratch as I got loss between them and had to figure it out myself. Thanks again.
Alright so i know this video is 2 years old, however i noticed theres a cut right at 8:36. you changed the code slightly on the position on the shape layer from just thisComp.Layer("text")/2 and changed it by copying the other expression and adding /2 on to the end of the width and height. I had trouble the first time i watched this but figured it out eventually. not sure if this is related but just in case anyone has the same problem i did.
I have the same problem and but still can't get it to work, tho. 😂😥
@@randallhernandez1644 Just copy the size expression to the position and add /2 - it is the same like it was before, but there is X axis and Y axis separately, which we need in next step
Great video. Very clear and easy to understand. I hope you start doing videos again.
Jake really great tutorial. You are a great instructor ... keep up the great work!
Jake! Your works have been an amazing inspirations for me ever since I stumbled upon your skillshare tutorials during my motion class at uni. I am so excited that you are starting this UA-cam channel!! Keep it up :) and thanks for all your works!
Thank you so much!!! I'm super excited to be here 😊
Fantastic tutorial, thank you so much for this!
you are amazingly good at teaching! 10/10
you are a great teacher! i could understand everything and im really bad at expressions
Love your videos Jake! They are incredible and boost your learning after effect in-depth.
Thank you so much. I'm just starting to work with expressions. Still it's rocket science to me, since I have no experience with coding at all. But thanks to your videos, I actually kind of get to understanding how they work (I guess). :)
Aaaaaawesome! i've been trying to figure it out for a long time! Thanks!!
So So So glad I found this. Been going round in circles for months trying to fix all this.
now if only corner roundedness would work...
offset paths, begone, link size instead to padding then rounded corners work... Don't forget to set text at -1 to Ég so height can be set set at time at t-1...
Thanks so much for the great tutorial, it was really easy to follow!
I was wondering if you had multiple LAYERS of text, each with their own shape, and you wanted to keep the shapes left-aligned, how would you do that? Each different character has it's own kerning, for example, the letter "A" has a different left position to the letter "C". How would you compensate for that difference?
Best sourceRect tut! Bravo!
Hi Jake! Just found your tutorial and it's really one of the best tuts I ever watched. On the one hand because I needed to solve exactly this problem :) , but also because it's explained so damn well! Thanks a lot! Hope for more to come! Only one thing: I did not understand the "mid"-variable-calculation.
this is the best video on this, closest ive come to understanding it!j
Fantastic job Jake...really appreciate you taking the time to lay this out in such an easy-to-follow video! I did have a question that I wasn't able to solve on my end that maybe you could comment on. I like having the anchor point of the shape layer in the upper left corner...any way of changing that to different locations? Instead of having it scale from the left...it'd be nice to have one from the bottom or right side. Thanks in advance!
JaKe Happy to see you started explaining on youtube
This video is very excellent
Thank you!!
Great Tutorial Jake!
Can you able to make series of tutorials on expressions, so that we understand and use expressions in much easier way?
Absolutely, and I already have some of those planned out!
Awesome! I can't wait to see them! :)
Happy to see you on UA-cam, Jake. Your Skillshare classes have been very much useful for me. Another channel added to my motion design library.
What kind of videos did you plan for the channel? I will ask for the motion design skills related than the tool(After Effects) related. Something like SoM would say, master the craft than the tool.
Thank you! Basically anything that wouldn't fit well into a Skillshare class. I have a lot of expressions explanations in the works.
Jake In Motion looking forward to them 💝
Love this in-depth tutorial. Super useful. How ever, I’m trying to apply these to a specifically designed txt box asset, that has a certain margin on the left and a certain margin on the right, and the offset trick scales the text box up uniformly. Also animating the transform scale will squash the round corners any way around these two issues?
You are great ! PLZ UPLOAD MORE TUT !!! I want to know about Expressions more!
Great and unique explainings tutorials... I really like your approach of making this things more understandable...
Not just copy pasting a code from video description.
Thumbs up and spot on my friend
Cheers
Great to see u here Jake hope to continue my learning here too thanks for posting here Cheers
Wonderful Tutorial!
I want to pay you for appreciation!
I was banging my head off the wall this weekend trying to get a box to follow left aligned text ... thank you.
This video is fantastic. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this video. It was absolutely what I needed and tackled every problem I ran into. :)
Would be really nice to have a refresh of this video? It is a great source rec at the time :)
The cut at 7:50 was really confusing. Suddenly the expression in Position was changed and it took me forever to find out I did not do anything wrong. A little sloppy for a tutorial
Had the same issue ...
and what was the solution?
@@ItsRVV the solution is copying the code from the size layer and adding /2 to the end of the width and height
This was amazingly helpfull. Thank you so much!
This is wonderful. Helped a lot. Thanks!
Awesome! So helpful, thank you so much!
Hi, This is really helped me alot.
TNice tutorialS IS WHAT I NEEDED BRO, thank you for taking the ti and doing tNice tutorials for most of that are starting with tNice tutorials beautiful tNice tutorialng called
Really clear and helpful tutorial - I was wondering how you made that color swatch on the side. I would find that very useful, as a work around I have a png in my project, click on it and pick the color as I need them but your way seems much more efficient. Have a great day, and useful video, thanks for putting out!!
Thank you! The color swatches are created using an invaluable script called Ray Dynamic Color from Sander Van Dijk. aescripts.com/ray-dynamic-color/
really good tutorial, still have to watch it a couple of times to get the hang of it.
Duuuude.. Im working on a new promo graphics package for altitude sports (Centennial, Co) and this is literally what ive been looking for! THANK YOU!
When the box does not follow the w and h, it might be due to the text not starting at the beginning of the composition.
I have my text typed out at the start and arranged them to different frames, which caused the box to only play at the start, not when the text actually exists.
This is Great Help, Thanks you
The amazing tutorial I came accross Jake!! 🤩🤩
First of all a big thanks for the nice explanation to understand. However, I would like to ask a question as I am following this tutorial to make some responsive templates, I was wondering if I could set up a character limit for the text, I tried with substring (0,0), which actually worked, but I want to set a limit as length not height. But with the substring how I would define length and height for the typing limit.
Hope I am clear with my question with my bad English!! 🙈
Man I looooove your intro!!!
🙌🙌🙌
This is a real godsend! Thanks Jake!
Hey Jake Thanks many Tonnnnnnns....... your videos are just like life saviours for many MO Artists. Jake could you suggest us any particular source to learn especially about expressions from a-z. Also you pls keep on posting these valuable tutorials on expressions fundamentals and usage.
Thank you! Check out aminoplex here on UA-cam.
thank you jake... I got a clear idea after going through those videos. Thanks a Ton again.
Thank you very much!! You safe my nerves
Thanks dude, this totally saved me today!!!
Please explain how you create a text box that resizes over two or more lines of text when you have a long sentence (without manually adding 'enter' at the point you want the new line), I can only get this to work on 1 line of text. BTW I recently completed your Explainer Camp, awesome!
Did you ever figure this out?
Amazing Tutorial. You are a great teacher. But, i have a dude.
How is possible the shape layer react on the second text and choice which is more longer to self-resize?
Seriously amazing
when I insert the typing effect the box does not follow the text. Could you help me with this?
Great tutorial! thank you!
it was all great except once you jumped in (7':14") which you parented the position based on the size of Textbox divided by 2 using (content("TextBox").content("TextBox").size/2;), but a little bit further, all of a sudden you've replaced the code with (var
var w = s.sourceRectAtTime().width/2; & etc).
it was a little bit confusing but thanks a lot for you Great guidance!
this is amazing stuff. Once i've scraped my brain off the floor and reassembled it I am sure im going to get this :=}
Very helpful! I do want somethign different. I want the font to skew in width from 100 in a text box. The box size remains, but the font gets skinner within the space.
Thank you that was really very helpful
AWESOME! again another PERFECT explanation.
u rule!
Awesome tutorial!
Thank you very much for great tutorial!
awesome bro whanted to say thank u million times
Hi, thank's for this video. Is it possible to have an expression that makes move an object at the end of a text? For example i would like to have a little line that will go to the end of a word, it will change of position at each word, du to differents lengths? So the goal should be to get the postion of the last letter of each text. Many thank's for your help.
Happy channel launch, Jake! A question about the "mid" point; shouldn't it be: start + ( end - start )/2? Thanks for all you share and teach, brother!
Your equation sounds more correct than mine, but I tested it out and it didn't work. Somehow that equation is looking at the mid point of the layer, but in relation to the start of the comp. I'll be honest, I don't exactly know why mine works and yours doesn't, but I think it may have something to do with sourceRectAtTime possibly basing time on the layer, and not the comp. I really can't say for sure what's going on, but when it works, it works :).
Odd. All I did was add "start + " in front of your equation and it seemed to work for me. I will send you the project file, good sir. Cheers!
Here's my AE file: drive.google.com/open?id=1MyXIZKmIKbWGrNk9rKiQvT4_jEof3kvW
Love the setup, you can really tell what's going on! And that was my original approach too, but for some reason sourceRectAtTime doesn't look at those values the same way. Check out my modified version of your aep and you'll see what I mean: www.dropbox.com/s/2iy598p9hnyy1a5/Mid%20Point%20Test.aep?dl=0
If you set keyframes on the End value from 100% - 0%, the box goes away.
do you have a full course on AE Expressions? if not, please release one! I'd buy it in a heartbeat!
Hey Jake, really like the new UA-cam format. You nailed it (again), in a smooth learning curve :) Thank you!
Any idea to set the rectangle height directly to the maximum height of the text (including ascenders and descenders) even without b, q, g, y... or capital letters in our text layer?
Hmm that's a tricky one. You may need to just hard code the height manually. I can't think of a way to have the box size its height to a character that isn't actually on the line of text.
Alright, thanks for your reply :)
Fabien Rousseau hey this is what I'm trying to do. I need to keep the height of the box consistent even when using (y, j, g etc) or accented letters (ä, é etc) but the box changed in height. It's also shifts position a few pixels when using certain letters. Did you find a way to do this?
Hi, I ended up with adding slider controls where I duplicated by hand the font size of the text. Then I set up the width expression to look at the sourceRectAtTime, and the height for this hardcoded values.
For multiline text, it's a bit trickier, so I added a line height control.
It's still not ideal because you have to break lines by hand, as we can't get the line count of wrapped lines in the text area. Though I'm sure it's possible to do it with further investigation, eg. looking to the sourceRectAtTime height and map this value to deduct the line amount.
You can look at the AE file here: www.dropbox.com/s/ungal7h3kbf4s01/sourceRecAtTime_Fix_Height_180517.aep?dl=0
Hope this helps!
Thin Channel will grow fast...believe me...thank you
Really great video and good pace! In my case it is not a perfectly square rectangle, but a slightly tilted rectangle (rectangle with diagonal ends). Hence the "size" effect for the Rectangle Path 1 is not available. For my shape I only get an effect "path". How can I then address the x,y or width,height?
Great tutorial, I have a question
I have this code for a subtitle text box :
text=thisComp.layer("");
width=tex.sourceRectAtTime(time-tex.inPoint,true).width+45;
startS = 12;
if ( marker.numKeys > 0){
m = marker.nearestKey(time);
t = m.time;
d=linear(width,0,1400,45,1400);
if (t
Really good tutorial!
Thank you for this video.
I am wondering if it is possible using expressions in After Effects to create functionality like Premiere has called "Responsive Design - Position"? I want to create a sidebar with multiple lines of text that could be 1, 2 or 3 lines as the first bullet point and then the following 2nd text bullet point below the 1st text bullet point, which could be 1, 2 or 3 lines long as well, would auto-follow with set distance between each bullet so the line spacing is more than the space between the line space of each individual text point? Is there a way to separate the y-axis of the position as that is the only variable I need to change between text bullet points?
This would be saved as a mogrt and that is why the text bullet points vary. I have been asked to create this in After Effects, save as a mogrt to be used in Premiere.
Thanks for this really useful! If I could ask for a tip? How would you have "borders" growing together with the box/background but only on the top and bottom of it?
Awesome tutorial!
but somehow it doesn't seem to work with multiple textlines?
Great tutorial. Comprehensive and conceptual. Thank you! I do have one question, is there a way to dynamically link the source of the shape layer? When i duplicate my text & shape layer the shape layer expression source remains bound to the original text layer it was created for. I want it to reference the newly duplicated text layer. Any help is appreciated.
Hi Jake In Motion,
I think your tutorial is great and simple, I'm trying to figure out how can I resolve this:
I have two dynamic boxes/titles that should have a relationship with each other.
The two boxes contain titles and are on top of each other on the Y-axis.
I would like an expression that makes both boxes/titles expand to the width of the longer box/title, i.e. The one with the longer text dictates the width of the titles.
I used this expression for the boxes:
title = thisComp.layer("Title").sourceRectAtTime();padding = effect("Padding")("Slider");[title.width + padding, title.height + padding];
Thank you for any help!
Jake kicks ass!
Thanks a lot! Very interesting! But I have questions: How make auto scale text, without change invisible box? Text auto scaling, when adding letters& Thank's!
WOW. Great tutorial! Thank you :)
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