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 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...
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.
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.)
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!
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!
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
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...
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
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.
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?
Welcome to RU-vid 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
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.
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 RU-vid 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). :)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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Happy to see you on RU-vid, 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?
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.
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?
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.
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
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!! 🙈
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!!
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!
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Love the 5 videos on the expression playlist, i was wondering if you made more videos on expressions and forgot to add them to the expression playlist.
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?
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. 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.
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!
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.
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!
i can´t get it to work i get teh error "Objekt of type found where a Proerty is Needed" CC 2020 var s = thisComp.layer("Text") var w = s.sourceRectAtTime().width; var h = s.sourceRectAtTime().height; [w,h];
Do we ever se you type in the code in the Position-field at 09:15? I've watched the tutorial a few times now and this snippet just seems to appear without any explanation.
I'm facing an issue, my text layer bounding box is not changing when I write in more text and its cropping the extra text untill i manually change adjust the text layer bounding box, ( here I'm not talking about the rectangle shape layer) and thus I am not able to use this effect, please help if you have any solution to this.
