Auto Resizing Dynamic Lower Thirds in After Effects | Tutorial 

That’s great to hear! Thanks very much!

You are very welcome!

Thanks so much that’s great to hear! There is also a free expressions sheet for you to start.

In this video I explain how to pin anchor points: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--PD7KEhElsM.html

The easiest way to do it is to use one text layer for both lines. Select the second line to change its color and size. If you add a second text layer you have to write an if/else conditional statement to choose the line with the higher width value.

Glad u like it!

That’s awesome! You’re so welcome!

You're welcome! Glad it's useful! Almost all lower thirds for my client projects are done like that. I think I'll hit 20k subs sometime in December. Almost 100k? In the next two years maybe... Who knows ;-))

we can almost say it now!

Thanks so much!!! That’s great to hear!

Thanks! In this case you have to use a fixed height, like in the second example. Then the text doesn't shift.

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Thank you so much! Glad u like it!

I probably moved the start point of the layer to the first keyframe. So that it appears like that.

Thanks very much for sharing! That's interesting! I'll do some research on it and check it out!

@Tamar Bender When you're editing a composition, go to the 'Composition' menu at the top-bar, then select "Responsive Design --- Time > Create Intro". You'll see a blue area with weird looking markers on your composition. You can resize this region and it will represent "unchangeable" portions of your composition for the downstream consumer. As an example, you could enforce that your intro always takes 2 seconds and your outro always takes 2 second (4 seconds of protected regions), but make your composition 5 seconds long with an unprotected center region. Then, when somebody consumes your composition (MOGRT / Master Properties), they can resize the layer existence and the first 2 seconds will always be your intro, the last 2 will always be your outro, and then can make the composition sit idle for as long as they want in the middle. In this case, if we made a protected intro, it would indicate that all of the text should be shown and stable by that point, you could then just use the sourceRectAtTime method to calculate the text height from that final position at all times rather than always doing an 'in-the-moment' calculation. It seems like it would be a more "complete" solution, but the end result would be functionally the same as what was presented. There are even other methods you can find that convert time in seconds to frames, so that you don't have to worry about hard-coding a frame if your have a 60 FPS / 30 FPS suite of tools you use this with, and other methods still would provide you with the location of the protected region start/end. Dig as deep as you'd like, there's always more to figure out with this stuff. Good luck!

The box should adjust to the amount of text no matter how many lines there are. You want the box to have the final size from the beginning on?

The layer control determines from which layer to get the data. And "t.sourceRectAtTime().height" reads out the actual height of the text layer.

Benutzt du die deutsche Ae Version? Die expressions werden nicht automatisch übersetzt. Slider Control in der englischen Expression wird nicht automatisch zu Schieberegler. Das muss man von Hand ersetzen. Wie sind denn die Fehlermeldungen?

@@ManueldoesMotion Okay ich hab's hingekriegt, danke. Weiß du wie ich links neben dem Text noch ein kleines Icon einfügen kann, wo die Shape Ebene sich dran anpasst?

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I think you can export it as essential graphic and use it as a template in premiere pro.

You're welcome! So happy it is helpful!

You create a shape layer and use it as matte. Add the sourceRecAtTine expression.

When I change to javascript, the [t.sourceRetAtTime().width] gives an error.

It seems like you didn't add a semicolon at the end of the first line.

Hi! ✌🏻 I don’t think you have to learn JavaScript. You can find a lot of expressions online, you might have to change a few little things, but mostly they work.

Hi Nathalia, I don't think you can do the animated part easily with expressions. You can resize the text so that it has the same width. I just found a tutorial that explains it really well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FpVPabZw3vU.html

Yeah, I figured out how to resize the text but not in one single layer. I end up with one master and two others where I break down both lines then use SourceRectAtTime. Thanks for getting back to me! And thanks for referring that tutorial, super helpful!

Hey thanks! Have you tried it? I'll check it out.

Hi! Freut mich dass sie dir gefallen! Ich habe irgendwann angefangen die englische AE Version zu verwenden weil es einfacher ist. Es gibt wenige deutsche Tutorials. Vielleicht starte ich irgendwann einen deutschen Tutorial Channel. Aber im Moment bleibe ich erstmal bei Englisch;)

You would have to pin the anchor points to the right edge of the layers.

@@ManueldoesMotion do you have to change the expression of the shape layer anchor point to be right instead of left? When I try to do this it gives me an Undefined expression error.

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!

You are very welcome!✌🏻😊

Thanks very much! ✌🏻

Yes, you should have some knowledge about expressions. If you want to start: bit.ly/expressions-cheat-sheet

Sure

There are tons of tutorials that cover how to create morgrt files. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-miiGiGtFuTU.htmlsi=4w4BKSQEgabte0Q5

@@ManueldoesMotion Yes, but..: - I like your videos - I really liked this tutorial and suddenly I ended up in a place I didn't expect :) I felt abandoned :) P.S. By the way. As we know, mogrt works great with Premiere and anyone who is "Adobe family" will be able to use it easily. But what if, for example, some people in my team use Final Cut Pro? Is it possible to convert the same/exactly the same looking AE project and make an export that people from the "Final Cut family" could also use?

@@adamsoyer I don't know of a way to use morgrt files in Final Cut. You would have to render out mov Files with an integrated alpha channel and use them as movie clips.