Auto-Resize Text Layers with Expressions in After Effects

[@RickyMartinVideos]

You're really good at explaining expressions efficiently. Thank you for this!

[@ukramedia]

Thank you for your kind words, Ricky!

[@artemtsenev]

Thanks for the manual of Smart Resizer. I use it every day but apperently don't know all the features. Thank you Sergei and Ukramedia.

[@jakeblack5331]

This is perfect, thank you! If you've ever gone through the pain of localizing tons of text with dramatically larger character count (I'm looking at you, German) you'll know what a lifesaver this can be. Makes templating so much easier.

[@VilkanVisions]

I got an error "sizeLimit redeclared" any tips how tio fix it?

[@HATEMTALAAT]

me too

[@adampetritsis]

Go to File --> Project Settings --> Expressions then change to "Javascript"

[@afatasidylan]

Thanks for sharing your secrets! Once I demo the usefulness, I'll make a case for my agency to purchase your toolkit. So useful for mass localization jobs! Great content.

[@DoctorMGL]

underrated channel 👍

[@davidgrimes2745]

perfect. Thank you!

[@atglobalglob2401]

Thank you.

[@thomasprinzivalli3873]

I use this kind of behaviour so often (generally coupled with some height restriction too) and I wanted to know if there some computational benefit to use the ternary operator instead of Math.min for the fixed scale. Thanks a lot for all the tips and tuts.

[@jeffp666]

I was trying to figure this out last year. I ended up figuring it out, a little bit different than your method. Nice to see a video on this.

[@ukramedia]

That's cool! You should make a tutorial on how you solved that problem.

[@MrInterpriser]

Amazing tut

[@nathitappan]

Thanks for the great tutorial as usual! Quick question: how would you go about it if you wanted to make two lines of text and resize the font to make sure both lines are always the same width? LINE1 LINE2 But if we changed the content of LINE 1, the font size would follow suit? In the eg bellow "NEWLINE1" would scale down, or "LINE2" would scale up. NEWLINE1 LINE2 I can do it by matching the layer size of two different text layers with sourceRectAtTime, and connect their positions with expressions. But I'm trying to reduce the amount of layers in this particular project, so hopefully there's a clever way to do it with some lines of code inside the same text layer! Does that make sense? Any insight is appreciated!

[@cardosofill]

Amazing and quick

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Fillipe!

[@muhammadyousaf8373]

Very helpful ❤❤

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Muhammad!

[@dmm8171]

Thank you very much! Is it possible to do something like this with paragraph text layer? For example, I need to do resizeble to shape size two-line paragraph text layer, when long phrase automatically moved in two lines, and then changes its size to shape size :)

[@dmalashkin]

I tested, with paragraph text it works with some problems: long phrases go out itself borders by height. I don't know how to fix it. Maybe Sergei can explain how to fix it.

[@AlejandroAbadrd]

Can this work with a paragraph of text? I have bought Smart Resizer! Thank you!

[@vasily3994]

useful. again🙏

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Vasily!

[@NoniKumarRay]

Sir, expression copy paste work possible?

[@PapeMaster]

I dont find that resizer anywhere in my after effects :(

[@vladkrilevskiy]

Hi, I wanted to suggest a topic for the next video. I'm not that good at coding and expressions, but I'm trying to create a mogrt for a list of patrons from Patreon. You can export a list of current patrons, so you can import it from csv to After Effects, but I don't know how exactly to do this. Maybe you can create an explainer on this topic, I'm sure it's gonna be popular among creators.

[@ukramedia]

Thanks for the tutorail request, Vladislav! I'll see what I can do.

[@92ragesh]

When we add text preset after adding smart resizer it animating jerky. How to solve it?

[@ukramedia]

So here is what's happening, Smart Resizer is doing its thing, resizing your Text Layer for each frame. It's looking at each frame and trying to lock in a specific size. All you have to do is make sure it's resizing your text at a particular custom time-I usually go for the middle point of the layer. To sort this out, head over to the Smart Resizer controls in the layer Effect Controls. Find "Size Based On" and switch both "Width Based On" and "Height Based On" to "Layer Middle Point." This will make sure it stops adjusting the text size for every single frame and only focuses on what it should be at the middle point of the layer. Basically, it should fix the problem. Give me a shout if it doesn't. Thanks for using my tools!

[@chanancenter]

@@ukramedia How to resolve this issue If I am using only the scriipt and not the smart resizer?

[@chanancenter]

Nevermind. I found the solution to jittery stuff: maxW = thisComp.width*.9; maxH = thisComp.height*.9; r = sourceRectAtTime(time); w = r.width; h = r.height; s = w/h > maxW/maxH ? maxW/w : maxH/h; [100,100]*s;

[@topanalghiffari3364]

hello, is it possible to auto-resize the circle depend the text? i want the text is still to the size, but the circle is auto-resize. hope you reply this, really need your help. thanks before

[@elzanc0]

Just paste these two lines to the "Size" property of the circle layer under Content > Ellipse > Path: textWidth = thisComp.layer("Text Layer").sourceRectAtTime().width; [textWidth, textWidth] You may need to replace the layer name if your text layer is not named "Text Layer".

[@sounder7564]

брат тут такое дело, вот композиция окно его я могу сделать 50% или 100%. а там нет 75% или 150% сможете ли сделать такой плагинчик или что либо, чтоб можно было 75 и 150%. сенкс

[@MrMadasice]

I feel like this had missing info for the people going with the expressions...

[@chanancenter]

Did you find the missing info?