Evan, thanks dude for all these tutorials man. I used to study filmmaking way back in high school but then got discouraged after working in production for awhile. It was just too much heavy lifting, and I couldn't find the creativity in it at that time. These videos helped me get back into the fun side of what I initially thought was an inaccessible software. Now I'm making videos for the company I work for and learning AE at the same time. Cool stuff - thanks again.
Hey Adam! YOU HAVE AMAZING TUTORIALS AND THANKS! I was wondering if you could do a tutorial over how in certain times in many videos there is a transition where something moves and behind it the next scene is found. Some examples could be someone walking and as he walks he takes the video with him as if he is masking the scene with the next scene. Thanks!
Hey Evan! How do you calculate the .9 value in expression? I want to use another monospaced font, but i can't figure out how to adjust that value. Thanks for the amazing tutorial! :D
Hello Evan, this tutorial helped me to solve my problem, but now I have another one. Sometimes I have 2 or 3 lines of text, could you recommend some way how to set the width depending on the longest line? Thank you
How would you apply this effect to ONLY the two right-side anchor points of a shape (why? because the left side is customized)? I would like only the right-side anchor points to move right, or grow, with the text. Thanks. Excellent vids by-the-way. Keep up the ... humor?
Hi, even though you mentioned it works on cs4 and so on, I'm using cs6 and for some reason I am not being able to read any property or method called lenght, or even width in the text layer... The code and layers are exactly the same as yours... just it can't find the width within the text layer... is there any other option to read it in this version or I'm screwed and gotta get a newer version?
To decorate videos. Like inserting cute motion graphics, text, sparkles, frames, and doodles. I know how to import still photos in the videos, but not motion pictures.
hey Evan, I just have question for you. I have watched your video about putting stuff behind things. I wonder if it's possible you can change your background in a video without using the green wall/background?(I don't know what that called). Like for example you just filming your video with your regular wall or whatever is on the background. then you want to change the background because it is not so appealing to the eyes. is that possible? and if you could add that to your list of tutorials to make? I would love to see how you do it. you're the only one I can rely on a good tutorials without making my brain bleed to death!
To remove a background you isolate the subject matter. This can be done many ways. Most of them are not ideal or very time consuming. I may do a tutorial about it but I heavily advocate for people to plan around never doing it.
Hey great tutorial! Just one question: When I input the text it doesn't stay in the same spot every time like yours, the anchor point seems to move. How can I avoid that and anchor the text to generate from one place?
Thanks very much for this! One issue I've noticed is that it's hard to account for text that has a decender or acender, like with a y or a d, vs. text that doesn't. I'm trying to develop some kind of workaround.
Great Video! But I have a question, I 'm trying to use a script that an object increases when the other decreases proportionally . How can I do this ? Thanks!
Should have led with the font issue. I'm way invested into this video and find out half way through that I can't do it with the font I need to do it with.
Hey Evan, I am trying to use this technique and link two boxes together but can't figure it out. So its one big bar divided in two and we have type in one half and type in the other and the whole bar scales relevant to the to areas. Basically what you have now but with one more of the same bar attached the end. Any tips?
sounds like it needs lots of math. Do you not have access to the sourceRectAtTime expression? that might make the process easier by giving you access to data.
So, is it possible to give the 'textbox' a maximum width? I'm trying to use this with more than one line of text, but it seems to make it very wide because I use more text. Thanks!
what is happening when you want the text size (ie font) to change instead of the size of the bar? so to have bigger names lets say in the same bar? Or this could be another tutorial? :)
+Thanos Mos : put this in the text Scale expression: var MyBarSize = 300; // 300pixels, if you want an other value, apply here; var MyTextWidth = this.sourceRectAtTime(0.0, true).width; var MyScale = MyBarSize /MyTextWidth*100 ; [MyScale ,MyScale ]
Evan, you continue to provide me the best "holy shit" moments of learning. Quick question - I'm trying to implement this for a 2 line Lower Third but my expression skills are basically just what I've learned from you here. I was trying to find the best way to make L represent the longer of the two lines of text, but of course this is kinda weird since the top line would be a bigger font size, etc. So I've made them close in size, 40 and 50 to minimize that problem and used this expression... is there a better way to do this? temp1 = thisComp.layer("1ST LINE").text.sourceText temp2 = thisComp.layer("2ND LINE").text.sourceText if (temp1 > temp2){L = temp1.length;} else {L = temp2.length;} x =50 * (L * .9); [250+x, value[1]]
Then you will need to do more math, and very specific math. But really if the font isn't mono spaced, there will be no consistency on which to base your maths, so it's all guess work at that point and you might as well start from scratch.
hey, I have a photo and within the photo is a circle.. i need to circle to slowly ''frost up'' look as if its frosting up.. how could i do that? how to work with a certain space? as soon as possible ^^^^^^^ please help!!
Hey Evan! I'm a video editor from way up North and I wish I had found your tutorials years ago! Holy. Thanks for this, you have some great stuff on here. I am still working with CS6.5 and am looking to have text write on with a highlight box auto-animate on as my type 'types' onto the screen. Do you have a tutorial for this or some tips on how to do it? Thanks!
How far up North are we talking here? Like in Iqaluit? Unfortunately, cs6.5 is missing some key expressions that would really help, like the sourceRectAtTime(). You might try just linking a couple text layers to animate on at the same time, but make one of them a font of only squares. That might get you close?
Haha no, not that far North! St. John's, Newfoundland (www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/getting-here-and-around/interactive-map). I figured that was the case when your tutorial wasn't working for me. I ended up using the type-on animation preset and manually scaling a rectangle behind it keeping the anchor point pinned to the far left of the object. Made it look the part anyway. Time to spend money! Thanks for this and the great tips on here. Keep it coming
I don't know if I explained it in this tutorial but this is kind of a new feature so you may not be able to do the things I'm talking about in here if you are using an older version.
You can put things on as many lines as your heart desires. Unfortunately since this method looks at the number of characters in a text layer to compute the length the results would be less than ideal. Also that makes the method described in the tutorial very unsuitable for deriving a vertical change for a shape layer. I don't know off hand how that might work. It would take some research and may not be possible.
Great vid. Is there a way to re-size the amount of time a lower 3rd is displayed by simply changing the length of the L3rd clip in Premiere (or even the composition in AE), without cutting out the intro/outro like in Final Cut X/Motion?
you could time remap. Or design your motion so you can cut out the middle. If you're making something shorter (in time) you must either compress time or remove something from it. So you can either trim from the middle or speed up the whole thing.
ECAbrams Thanks for replying. The only problem with time remapping is that it can disrupt the speed of the motion, either making it too fast or too slow - and wouldn't you have to change framerates within the comp as well if you extended it? Trimming the middle could ruin any animation by creating a glitch/jump cut within the L3rd. Do you think it would be possible to create an expression within AE that keeps the timing of the L3rd motion the same, but alters the length the text is displayed when the clip length is altered? This is literally the only thing about Apple Motion I like that isn't easily available in AE!
One question... IS there a way to control MOTION of that title by the size of it? like, for example, whole lower third is sliding from the left side of the screen and right end of it stays in the same position, no matter how wide it is?
that sounds like you want to scale something and have the anchor point be located on one side? You can position the anchor point using the math of this expression if you like. Then the rest is up to some keyframes, or you could even have an expression on the scale if you like. Would that accomplish what you're after?
No, not really, imagine this lower third not sliding from the bottom of the screen but from the left side of the screen, this means I have to change position value according the size of the rectangle, to keep left offset same for any length of the text...
there is a newer tutorial that deals with using something called the sourceRectAtTime() expression. I think that might help you out with some of these issues. If you want the position to be governed by size that's one way to access that data you will need. As for using expressions to control position over time, there are few ways. Check out the creative cow forums to see some examples. That's maybe the best I can do in the space youtube provides for comments on here.
So, this video is actually quite out of date now. If you're on the latest version of Ae you'll want to make use of the Essential Graphics panel to make your templates. And when it comes to resizing elements to text the sourceRectAtTime() expression is where you want to look. I hope that helps.
sourceRectAtTime is a property we access using the expressions. It's a newer property that isn't available in older versions of Ae. It also provides the exact dimension of a text or shape layer. this is a technique to accomplish a similar end goal that we might achieve with the sourceRectAtTime, should that not be available.
Hi @ECAbrams , Great tuts thank's! i'm trying to resize a rectangle by the center from text who's in the middle of the comp. In the rectangle's position i put this temp = content("Rectangle 1").content("Tracé rectangulaire 1").size[0]; [0, 0] I think it's ok but in the rectangle's size i put this temp = thisComp.layer("TITLE").text.sourceText; s = temp.length; x =100 * (s * .9); [x, value[1]]; Can you help me please?
+AVAY NONEYM well... I talked in the video how you have to change the math for your font. It might not line up because your font is not mono-spaced or there is some other ratio for pixels to letters. If you're using a newer version of Ae you could use the other method described on this channel that is more exact.
I'm a bit late to this party but now in CC2014 AE update 2 you can: Run the following code in the Source Text script field with the var myTextLayer pick-wiped to the source text layer. This will provide an accurate text block width making your tutorial work with non-monospaced fonts. Reference page - blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2014/12/after-effects-cc-2014-2-13-2.html var myTextLayer = thisComp.layer("yourTextLayer"); var textLayerWidth = myTextLayer.sourceRectAtTime().width; textLayerWidth
Right, and for everyone who doesn't have the latest thing, they can keep on with this method recorded before the update. Also you can just apply the sourceRectAtTime to a shape layer's size instead of putting it in the text layer's source. I'm not totally sure why you would put expressions in the source property unless you wanted the text layer to display the result right?
ECAbrams Yes that is right. The example script that I gave is purely to demonstrate how the numbers change. By changing the font for example. Folks should follow your tutorial as it stands then check out the reference page cited. If people don't have the latest thing then there's nothing to see here.
yeah! after watching your video, i think we can do it with just 3 simple effects. we can pre-compose our text,and duplicate it,and add box blur,fill,curves on the bottom one.and we can change text size,fonts and whatever you want,and the text always inside the rectangle.(the curves should adjust the alpha channel).Finally,my english is poor, sorry for that!
Kurumi Tokisaki Yes, that will indeed make a rectangle the exact same size as the text's bounding box. There are many ways to get to the same place. This tutorial is, on the surface, about creating templates that resize rectangles. But maybe there is some value for people looking to learn about expressions and making dynamic links to layer properties they may not have considered before. If you feel you can get better results with different methods I encourage you to do so.
Well, I guess I'm the weird one. When working on something, I actually say out loud what I have to do, step by step, and somehow it makes me work faster :/
I tried the demo at rowbyte and I found out that the plexus will be gone when I move the camera I use even though the plexus will follow the camera.I'm keyframing the position of the plexus btw so that it can follow the camera. Is it normal to be like this? I wanted to use it for the kinetic typography I'm doing.
Ajax01 Well plexus is making a 3d particle simulation so they exist in 3d space with the camera. So when you move the camera to look somewhere else the particles will still be in the same place but your camera will be looking at something else. It's not only normal but expected.
So there is nothing I can do to make it follow then? I saw this lyric video by Sheppard (band) in their music which uses plexus and it seems like the plexus is following the camera where ever it goes. Here is the vid that I'm talking about: ua-cam.com/video/E-SeaCZE2TM/v-deo.html
The audio sounds like you used the Adobe Audition DeHisser tool a little too heavy.. There's a weird particle-filled noise behind your voice. Great tutorial as always, btw
Pedro Gomes well this tutorial was made in Adobe CC, which is a little newer than CS6. So the template option may not be there. But I can assure you that you can pick whip things in literally all versions of Ae. You just have to hold alt and click on things to activate the expression controls and then it'll be right there.
Hello Mr. Abrams First of all, thanks to you and congratulations for your amazing tutorials, i'm learning tons of after effects because of it. I had a tinny little problem with that one, i'm copying the expression, but nothing happens when I change the text, or the values on it, only the last line is working. Eitherway, AE don't show any error message happening on the expression. I tried changing the source font, and text layer's name but still doing nothing, and I'm about to suicide, if you could help me please, you can stop a catastrophe (just kidding). Thanks a lot. Adobe AE version (13.0.0214)
+ECAbrams Yes, i named the text layer as "TEXT" exactly the same as you in the video but when i write something different in text layer, the shape layer doesn't change its size
uncorrupted Did I? They are blue because I updated to the latest version of Ae. I actually have no control over the colour. It just is what the program wants it to be. I'm sure you could edit some of the code but that seems like a pain.
HEY ABRAMS!!! CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE A TUT EXPLAINING LA DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ADOBE AE AND ADOBE PREMIERE? FOR 2 BIT FLOOZIES LIKE MYSELF WHO IS JUST LEARN THIS "STUFF". IF YOU ALREADY HAVE ONE PLEASE REFER IT. thx ever so... stud!
Good tutorial but you lose way too much control over what you want to do with the project, you change the font and the whole project fails unless you change all the expressions, its a good concept but not practical, sure you could rig the expressions to a controller, you still lose too much control over complex animations.
Yup, those are the limitations I tried to speak to in the tutorial. Maybe I didn't communicate them as clearly as I thought but any automation falls apart when someone starts to play with the variables in the system. Either way, what's the more practical solution to the problem? Don't keep me in suspense here.
Evan, thanks dude for all these tutorials man. I used to study filmmaking way back in high school but then got discouraged after working in production for awhile. It was just too much heavy lifting, and I couldn't find the creativity in it at that time. These videos helped me get back into the fun side of what I initially thought was an inaccessible software. Now I'm making videos for the company I work for and learning AE at the same time. Cool stuff - thanks again.
Always the best quality tutorials from Evan! Thank you for providing us with this wonderful free knowledge. :D
Great tutorial as always ECAbrams! Expressions are such a powerful tool, I definitely have to spend more time using them.
Glad to see you back with some more excellent tutorials, thanks Evan.
Oh I never really left, as long as people believe ;)
"That this...has some stuff in it...that you don't wanna fuck around with" Haha this made my fricking day.
Awesome tutorial Evan! Congrats!
Evan, you're a top bloke. A TOP BLOKE, EVAN.
Go you.
Very cool. I have been using editable AE lower thirds in Premiere Pro, and this will come in very handy!
Yay for lazy templates! I always purchase your pre-made templates. Great stuff, keep em coming!
neat technique.. thanks man! btw that lower 3rds it's huge!!
super cool expiration .....thanks so much Abrams ! ...........
YOUR VOICE sounds clear but with a slight echo
great vid! thanks
Really useful!
Thank you so much
Thank you, sir
Hey Adam! YOU HAVE AMAZING TUTORIALS AND THANKS! I was wondering if you could do a tutorial over how in certain times in many videos there is a transition where something moves and behind it the next scene is found. Some examples could be someone walking and as he walks he takes the video with him as if he is masking the scene with the next scene.
Thanks!
Great video buddy!
Thanks man.
Evan, you are funny guy, thanks not only for the knowledge you spread! :))
Amazing tutorial dude, but in my case the shape layer have a mask cose i want a rectangle with no vertical extremes, how i can do it?
Hey Evan! How do you calculate the .9 value in expression? I want to use another monospaced font, but i can't figure out how to adjust that value.
Thanks for the amazing tutorial! :D
Can we do this for subtitle, so the text and bgd to be in center and change size from both sides
Evan, you da best
Well thank you kindly.
EVAN ALMIGHTY!!!
Hello Evan, this tutorial helped me to solve my problem, but now I have another one. Sometimes I have 2 or 3 lines of text, could you recommend some way how to set the width depending on the longest line? Thank you
How would you apply this effect to ONLY the two right-side anchor points of a shape (why? because the left side is customized)? I would like only the right-side anchor points to move right, or grow, with the text. Thanks.
Excellent vids by-the-way. Keep up the ... humor?
Hi, even though you mentioned it works on cs4 and so on, I'm using cs6 and for some reason I am not being able to read any property or method called lenght, or even width in the text layer... The code and layers are exactly the same as yours... just it can't find the width within the text layer... is there any other option to read it in this version or I'm screwed and gotta get a newer version?
I really liked your half-opened, sneaky eyes! Adorable facial expressions,haha!
Guess I'm missing the point...
Is it work with Premiere pro cs6? Because when I import the file it doesn't show any composition at all.
Can you make a tutorial video about how to add motion stickers in the video?
maybe? What's a "motion sticker"?
To decorate videos. Like inserting cute motion graphics, text, sparkles, frames, and doodles. I know how to import still photos in the videos, but not motion pictures.
I have to confess, the coolest thing is the Canadian "out".
is there any way to create separate text boxes for each line for multi-line texts?
unfortunately, no
you can look for a plugin named "Text border" on aescripts. might help you
hey Evan, I just have question for you. I have watched your video about putting stuff behind things. I wonder if it's possible you can change your background in a video without using the green wall/background?(I don't know what that called).
Like for example you just filming your video with your regular wall or whatever is on the background. then you want to change the background because it is not so appealing to the eyes. is that possible? and if you could add that to your list of tutorials to make?
I would love to see how you do it. you're the only one I can rely on a good tutorials without making my brain bleed to death!
To remove a background you isolate the subject matter. This can be done many ways. Most of them are not ideal or very time consuming. I may do a tutorial about it but I heavily advocate for people to plan around never doing it.
Hey great tutorial! Just one question:
When I input the text it doesn't stay in the same spot every time like yours, the anchor point seems to move. How can I avoid that and anchor the text to generate from one place?
3 years later but if someone else is asking the same: Go to Paragraph and change "center" to align text to the left (or right).
Que bello
Thanks for your amazing work. I wanna ask you how the channel tv modified for example the text in the news in live broadcast.
They use fancy machines and computer programs that cost too much money.
ECAbrams You know, you are the best.
Thanks very much for this!
One issue I've noticed is that it's hard to account for text that has a decender or acender, like with a y or a d, vs. text that doesn't. I'm trying to develop some kind of workaround.
Actually I fixed it I was making things way more complicated then they needed to be.
You're welcome. I think the more updated version of this is using the SourceRectAtTime expression rather than all this math.
Great Video! But I have a question, I 'm trying to use a script that an object increases when the other decreases proportionally . How can I do this ? Thanks!
well, have you considered the "linear" expression? It establishes a linear relationship between things. That should do it.
Should have led with the font issue. I'm way invested into this video and find out half way through that I can't do it with the font I need to do it with.
This video is also pretty out of date. The sourceRectAtTime() expression is what you want to be using now.
Hey Evan, I am trying to use this technique and link two boxes together but can't figure it out. So its one big bar divided in two and we have type in one half and type in the other and the whole bar scales relevant to the to areas. Basically what you have now but with one more of the same bar attached the end. Any tips?
sounds like it needs lots of math. Do you not have access to the sourceRectAtTime expression? that might make the process easier by giving you access to data.
So, is it possible to give the 'textbox' a maximum width?
I'm trying to use this with more than one line of text, but it seems to make it very wide because I use more text.
Thanks!
You can click and drag to make a textbox, that's something to check out maybe?
what is happening when you want the text size (ie font) to change instead of the size of the bar? so to have bigger names lets say in the same bar? Or this could be another tutorial? :)
+Thanos Mos :
put this in the text Scale expression:
var MyBarSize = 300; // 300pixels, if you want an other value, apply here;
var MyTextWidth = this.sourceRectAtTime(0.0, true).width;
var MyScale = MyBarSize /MyTextWidth*100 ;
[MyScale ,MyScale ]
Evan, you continue to provide me the best "holy shit" moments of learning. Quick question - I'm trying to implement this for a 2 line Lower Third but my expression skills are basically just what I've learned from you here. I was trying to find the best way to make L represent the longer of the two lines of text, but of course this is kinda weird since the top line would be a bigger font size, etc. So I've made them close in size, 40 and 50 to minimize that problem and used this expression... is there a better way to do this?
temp1 = thisComp.layer("1ST LINE").text.sourceText
temp2 = thisComp.layer("2ND LINE").text.sourceText
if (temp1 > temp2){L = temp1.length;} else {L = temp2.length;}
x =50 * (L * .9);
[250+x, value[1]]
margin = 60;
text_width = thisComp.layer("Text").sourceRectAtTime().width;
text_height = thisComp.layer("Text").sourceRectAtTime().height;
box_width = text_width + margin*2;
box_height = text_height + margin*2;
[box_width, box_height]
Hey Mr.Abrams are you coming back to do more tutorials I really enjoy your work?
Sure. Eventually.
Can't wait...
Coll, what about when you dont have monospaced font, and whant to adjust the height based on a multiline text? Using CS6.
Then you will need to do more math, and very specific math. But really if the font isn't mono spaced, there will be no consistency on which to base your maths, so it's all guess work at that point and you might as well start from scratch.
yep, thanks
Is there any way to resize lower third from right side to left?
did you find a solution?
how to resize text?not shape
hey, I have a photo and within the photo is a circle.. i need to circle to slowly ''frost up'' look as if its frosting up.. how could i do that? how to work with a certain space? as soon as possible ^^^^^^^ please help!!
use a mask on an adjustment layer?
Hey Evan! I'm a video editor from way up North and I wish I had found your tutorials years ago! Holy. Thanks for this, you have some great stuff on here. I am still working with CS6.5 and am looking to have text write on with a highlight box auto-animate on as my type 'types' onto the screen. Do you have a tutorial for this or some tips on how to do it? Thanks!
How far up North are we talking here? Like in Iqaluit? Unfortunately, cs6.5 is missing some key expressions that would really help, like the sourceRectAtTime(). You might try just linking a couple text layers to animate on at the same time, but make one of them a font of only squares. That might get you close?
Haha no, not that far North! St. John's, Newfoundland (www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/getting-here-and-around/interactive-map). I figured that was the case when your tutorial wasn't working for me. I ended up using the type-on animation preset and manually scaling a rectangle behind it keeping the anchor point pinned to the far left of the object. Made it look the part anyway. Time to spend money! Thanks for this and the great tips on here. Keep it coming
how do I do this in CS5.5 and also be able to save it as a template?
I don't know if I explained it in this tutorial but this is kind of a new feature so you may not be able to do the things I'm talking about in here if you are using an older version.
Can we also put the lower third on two lines? So there's a self resizing heigth?
You can put things on as many lines as your heart desires. Unfortunately since this method looks at the number of characters in a text layer to compute the length the results would be less than ideal. Also that makes the method described in the tutorial very unsuitable for deriving a vertical change for a shape layer. I don't know off hand how that might work. It would take some research and may not be possible.
Great vid. Is there a way to re-size the amount of time a lower 3rd is displayed by simply changing the length of the L3rd clip in Premiere (or even the composition in AE), without cutting out the intro/outro like in Final Cut X/Motion?
you could time remap. Or design your motion so you can cut out the middle. If you're making something shorter (in time) you must either compress time or remove something from it. So you can either trim from the middle or speed up the whole thing.
ECAbrams Thanks for replying. The only problem with time remapping is that it can disrupt the speed of the motion, either making it too fast or too slow - and wouldn't you have to change framerates within the comp as well if you extended it? Trimming the middle could ruin any animation by creating a glitch/jump cut within the L3rd. Do you think it would be possible to create an expression within AE that keeps the timing of the L3rd motion the same, but alters the length the text is displayed when the clip length is altered? This is literally the only thing about Apple Motion I like that isn't easily available in AE!
One question...
IS there a way to control MOTION of that title by the size of it? like, for example, whole lower third is sliding from the left side of the screen and right end of it stays in the same position, no matter how wide it is?
that sounds like you want to scale something and have the anchor point be located on one side? You can position the anchor point using the math of this expression if you like. Then the rest is up to some keyframes, or you could even have an expression on the scale if you like. Would that accomplish what you're after?
No, not really, imagine this lower third not sliding from the bottom of the screen but from the left side of the screen, this means I have to change position value according the size of the rectangle, to keep left offset same for any length of the text...
there is a newer tutorial that deals with using something called the sourceRectAtTime() expression. I think that might help you out with some of these issues. If you want the position to be governed by size that's one way to access that data you will need. As for using expressions to control position over time, there are few ways. Check out the creative cow forums to see some examples. That's maybe the best I can do in the space youtube provides for comments on here.
SOOO COMLICATED
+nswerhun It certainly is not a beginners tutorial. I recommend people have a firm command of after effects before getting into things like this.
2:18 the check box for template is not there... Using latest version of CC to date (17.0.5)
Any idea why?
So, this video is actually quite out of date now. If you're on the latest version of Ae you'll want to make use of the Essential Graphics panel to make your templates. And when it comes to resizing elements to text the sourceRectAtTime() expression is where you want to look. I hope that helps.
What's the main difference between this and "sourceRecAtTime"? Thx
sourceRectAtTime is a property we access using the expressions. It's a newer property that isn't available in older versions of Ae. It also provides the exact dimension of a text or shape layer. this is a technique to accomplish a similar end goal that we might achieve with the sourceRectAtTime, should that not be available.
can you make a tutorial on how to animate a conveyor belt or cutting chain of a chainsaw ?
I may. I tend to just use a path with a dashed line for that kind of thing.
Hi @ECAbrams , Great tuts thank's!
i'm trying to resize a rectangle by the center from text who's in the middle of the comp.
In the rectangle's position i put this
temp = content("Rectangle 1").content("Tracé rectangulaire 1").size[0];
[0, 0]
I think it's ok but in the rectangle's size i put this
temp = thisComp.layer("TITLE").text.sourceText;
s = temp.length;
x =100 * (s * .9);
[x, value[1]];
Can you help me please?
+AVAY NONEYM soo.... what happen when you do that?
ECAbrams thanks for this quick answer! the size of the rectangle is too big from each sides and too small when i write less letters.
+AVAY NONEYM well... I talked in the video how you have to change the math for your font. It might not line up because your font is not mono-spaced or there is some other ratio for pixels to letters. If you're using a newer version of Ae you could use the other method described on this channel that is more exact.
Allright, thank you!
Hi, why does my comp settings not give me the option to save it as a template? There's no tick box for template in the advanced settings?
Shaun McCreanor me same
Shaun McCreanor Maybe you're not using the same version of Ae as in the tutorial?
Thank you. I'm using CS5. That's why
I think you should add a big fat annotation to this video to reference your sourceAtRectTime() Tutorial.
I'm a bit late to this party but now in CC2014 AE update 2 you can:
Run the following code in the Source Text script field with the var myTextLayer pick-wiped to the source text layer.
This will provide an accurate text block width making your tutorial work with non-monospaced fonts.
Reference page - blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2014/12/after-effects-cc-2014-2-13-2.html
var myTextLayer = thisComp.layer("yourTextLayer");
var textLayerWidth = myTextLayer.sourceRectAtTime().width;
textLayerWidth
Right, and for everyone who doesn't have the latest thing, they can keep on with this method recorded before the update. Also you can just apply the sourceRectAtTime to a shape layer's size instead of putting it in the text layer's source. I'm not totally sure why you would put expressions in the source property unless you wanted the text layer to display the result right?
ECAbrams
Yes that is right.
The example script that I gave is purely to demonstrate how the numbers change.
By changing the font for example.
Folks should follow your tutorial as it stands then check out the reference page cited.
If people don't have the latest thing then there's nothing to see here.
Hi Evan! How to set key frames to linear after you hit F9?
you an always right click on keyframes and change their interpolation. You can also... command+click on them or ctrl+click if you are on a pc.
ECAbrams
Super cool, thanks!
hey! i can do it without expressions and control it easily!
You can have a layer dynamically resize without expressions? Please continue.
yeah! after watching your video, i think we can do it with just 3 simple effects. we can pre-compose our text,and duplicate it,and add box blur,fill,curves on the bottom one.and we can change text size,fonts and whatever you want,and the text always inside the rectangle.(the curves should adjust the alpha channel).Finally,my english is poor, sorry for that!
Kurumi Tokisaki Yes, that will indeed make a rectangle the exact same size as the text's bounding box. There are many ways to get to the same place. This tutorial is, on the surface, about creating templates that resize rectangles. But maybe there is some value for people looking to learn about expressions and making dynamic links to layer properties they may not have considered before. If you feel you can get better results with different methods I encourage you to do so.
Thank you Abrams,i just always overthinking.I'm your fans,i hope you can do better!Nothing else,just thank you!
+董子才 i cant get that to work for me. It dont creates a rectangle. it blures the text but i dont get a rectangle.
You should twitch your big projects.....you fun! :D
I'm not sure that would make for compelling content. I don't talk when I'm doing real work because it interrupts my flow.
Well, I guess I'm the weird one. When working on something, I actually say out loud what I have to do, step by step, and somehow it makes me work faster :/
audio is great but theres some "Crystally effect" kinda like u added some kind of a noise remover plugin.
Yeah, it's a noisy place in my office sometimes. There is quite an effects stack on it in Audition.
make slide show tutorial
Lav mic has more prominent sibilance - the Yeti is more pleasing to my ear...
What is the background you used on those lower 3rds? Where can I buy them?
I think it was made with plexus. You can find that at aescripts
I tried the demo at rowbyte and I found out that the plexus will be gone when I move the camera I use even though the plexus will follow the camera.I'm keyframing the position of the plexus btw so that it can follow the camera. Is it normal to be like this? I wanted to use it for the kinetic typography I'm doing.
Ajax01 Well plexus is making a 3d particle simulation so they exist in 3d space with the camera. So when you move the camera to look somewhere else the particles will still be in the same place but your camera will be looking at something else. It's not only normal but expected.
So there is nothing I can do to make it follow then? I saw this lyric video by Sheppard (band) in their music which uses plexus and it seems like the plexus is following the camera where ever it goes. Here is the vid that I'm talking about: ua-cam.com/video/E-SeaCZE2TM/v-deo.html
The audio sounds like you used the Adobe Audition DeHisser tool a little too heavy.. There's a weird particle-filled noise behind your voice.
Great tutorial as always, btw
WHEN ARE YOU
GONNA POST AGAIN
Holy Liquor Shelf Batman!
Yeah it's like Mad Men up in here.
But this only works with proportional fonts…
This is for AE CC 2014 !? on CS 6 don't work !?
Pedro Gomes when you say it "don't work", what exactly "don't work" about it
ECAbrams the pick whip on position don't exist, on composition settings the option " Template ....... " don't exist. :(
Pedro Gomes CS6
Pedro Gomes well this tutorial was made in Adobe CC, which is a little newer than CS6. So the template option may not be there. But I can assure you that you can pick whip things in literally all versions of Ae. You just have to hold alt and click on things to activate the expression controls and then it'll be right there.
When you coming back, Evan? :)
Soon as I'm done doing the things that need to be done.
As far as I can tell this isn't working.
What are common bugs?
only works with monospaced fonts
Hello Mr. Abrams
First of all, thanks to you and congratulations for your amazing tutorials, i'm learning tons of after effects because of it.
I had a tinny little problem with that one, i'm copying the expression, but nothing happens when I change the text, or the values on it, only the last line is working. Eitherway, AE don't show any error message happening on the expression.
I tried changing the source font, and text layer's name but still doing nothing, and I'm about to suicide, if you could help me please, you can stop a catastrophe (just kidding).
Thanks a lot.
Adobe AE version (13.0.0214)
+Alvaro Perez is the expression referencing the layer as you've labeled it?
+ECAbrams Yes, i named the text layer as "TEXT" exactly the same as you in the video but when i write something different in text layer, the shape layer doesn't change its size
+Alvaro Perez subefotos.com/ver/?fbef69c8eca53bad6e57bcc0f6eb1b9bo.png
+Alvaro Perez I notice you put both expressions into the same property? do we do that in the tutorial?
+ECAbrams YESSSS! That was the thing! infinitely grateful! you are the best!
How you made them blue?
I'm sorry, how did I make what blue?
Uhm you said at 1:25 that you made the stuff blue like the time (the buttons etc)
uncorrupted Did I? They are blue because I updated to the latest version of Ae. I actually have no control over the colour. It just is what the program wants it to be. I'm sure you could edit some of the code but that seems like a pain.
Oh, okay thank you
when I have a question about Ae this is where I start.
10x again 6 year old video
Audio is much better.
Aaaaah, so that's what they're called..
temPLATES :)
It's a little tinny. (audio)
Tinny indeed. Not sure if there is a way to effectively change that in post or is it just a limitation of the smaller mic head?
It's not something too noticeable. I don't think it would effect anyone's decision to watching your tutorials. Certainly won't effect mine.
where are you :(((((
In ottawa, where are you?
London! You haven't posted for ages!
HEY ABRAMS!!! CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE A TUT EXPLAINING LA DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ADOBE AE AND ADOBE PREMIERE? FOR 2 BIT FLOOZIES LIKE MYSELF WHO IS JUST LEARN THIS "STUFF". IF YOU ALREADY HAVE ONE PLEASE REFER IT. thx ever so... stud!
Good tutorial but you lose way too much control over what you want to do with the project, you change the font and the whole project fails unless you change all the expressions, its a good concept but not practical, sure you could rig the expressions to a controller, you still lose too much control over complex animations.
Yup, those are the limitations I tried to speak to in the tutorial. Maybe I didn't communicate them as clearly as I thought but any automation falls apart when someone starts to play with the variables in the system. Either way, what's the more practical solution to the problem? Don't keep me in suspense here.
its like math school.... :(
Impressive how much time this tutorial manages to waste on nonsense.
Too long.
Too difficult.
I didn't like this tutorial.
I'm the only one who disliked. yay !