sourceRectAtTime(); | After Effects Expressions
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
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sourceRectAtTime() is a crazy useful expression, but there isn't a great explanation of what it exactly does, or how to wrangle it to do what you want. In this tutorial I'll demystify this expression and teach everything you need to use it to your full advantage.
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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
Dude seriously, this is super helpful. Thanks a ton for this excellent tutorial!
Wow, the explanation is SO GOOD and the content is still updated even 5 years after publication! Thank you very much.
Love your videos Jake! They are incredible and boost your learning after effect in-depth.
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!!
Excited for your new channel! I've learned a lot from your Skillshare classes 👍
I’ve been trying to figure out how do get this style for my subtitles for AGES. Thank you so much.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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! 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 RUclips channel!! Keep it up :) and thanks for all your works!
Thank you so much!!! I'm super excited to be here 😊
Jake really great tutorial. You are a great instructor ... keep up the great work!
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.
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.
This was the simplest and most effective explanation on the topic, thanks!
Thank you so much for this video. It was absolutely what I needed and tackled every problem I ran into. :)
JaKe Happy to see you started explaining on youtube
This video is very excellent
Great to see u here Jake hope to continue my learning here too thanks for posting here Cheers
Welcome to RUclips 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!
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!
Great video. Very clear and easy to understand. I hope you start doing videos again.
The way you detail the expression is very useful! You should go deep with every expression possible
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
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
Wonderful Tutorial!
I want to pay you for appreciation!
Aaaaaawesome! i've been trying to figure it out for a long time! Thanks!!
Best sourceRect tut! Bravo!
This just saved me on a freelance gig. I'm not even religious but God bless you and your channel
AWESOME! again another PERFECT explanation.
u rule!
This is wonderful. Helped a lot. Thanks!
you are amazingly good at teaching! 10/10
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?
This is a real godsend! Thanks Jake!
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!
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Thank you!!
you are a great teacher! i could understand everything and im really bad at expressions
Thank you very much for great tutorial!
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).
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!
the quality of this content is on point
Awesome! So helpful, thank you so much!
You are great ! PLZ UPLOAD MORE TUT !!! I want to know about Expressions more!
Awesome tutorial!
WOW. Great tutorial! Thank you :)
Thanks dude, this totally saved me today!!!
You’re so awesome! Thank you!
Really good tutorial!
Great tutorial! thank you!
really good tutorial, still have to watch it a couple of times to get the hang of it.
Man I looooove your intro!!!
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This video is fantastic. Thank you.
this is the best video on this, closest ive come to understanding it!j
This was amazingly helpfull. Thank you so much!
Hi, This is really helped me alot.
This is Great Help, Thanks you
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.
You're the real mvp!
Happy to see you on RUclips, 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 💝
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?
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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!! 🙈
U r amazing man! ♥
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/
Hi Jake! First of all, Thanks for your awesome tutorials! I would like to ask you a question...
Do you think it is possible to create a similar dynamic text block that would be able to resize itself only in height with a fixed width ?
Where we can inject text content without caring about the line breaks. That could (eventually) be used as an Essential Graphics in Premiere.
A sort of auto-resize text box... Thanks in advance!
Seriously amazing
That's so much helpful..👌
Thank you that was really very helpful
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?
Would be really nice to have a refresh of this video? It is a great source rec at the time :)
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.
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?
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?
Thank you very much!! You safe my nerves
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...
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! :)
awesome bro whanted to say thank u million times
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.
Those are the only videos I've made dedicated to expressions so far. I do use expressions quite a bit in my tutorials though.
nice tutorial, new subscriber here!
do you have a full course on AE Expressions? if not, please release one! I'd buy it in a heartbeat!
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). :)
Fantastic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brilliant
THX
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!
cool and deep. it seems there are not limits for expressions, or I can't see them.
ّI have made an amendment and wanna u to correct me .. i made the slider directly to affect the amount of offset path instead of the size or rectangle it makes the anchor point to continuously changing according to offsetting ok ?
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 vdieo. Thank you very much.
I was banging my head off the wall this weekend trying to get a box to follow left aligned text ... thank you.
Thank you Jake!!! Question. What if I hit "Enter", it fails..dont?
coz you did great work on the video, thank u for your help o7
Hi Jake. How do you auto resize the textbox to the maximum width of two or more separate text layers?
Does anyone know if their is a way to fix the offset so that it remains proportionate to its desired state even when increasing the letter count, scale and position of the text? For example if creating the 'Accents' layer, you could (in theory) create a pair of brackets, from an unfilled, stroked rectangle by offsetting the start and end independently. The issue is that once I change the length of the words the offset adjusts and the brackets shift around the shape accordingly (e.g. creating an L shape rather than keeping the [ shape). Or is there a much easier way of doing this? I really want to have a template that colleagues can type into without making any changes or having to animate so need to do this cleverly. I'm just too dense to work it out! Any tips welcome. Thanks.
This is amazing and well explained but is there any way to reverse engineer this so that the text auto-scales according to the box? I am trying to make a website design transform to a mobile screen and I want to know if there is any way I can animate the text getting aligned properly inside the text box as it transforms from a wide website text box to a mobile screen. Someone, please help! I know you can use prototyping tools like Principle to get the desired output but at this point I am just so f'ing on how to get it done in Ae.