Julian

Motion Engineer

[Julian @typographae]

Introducing Line Sizer 2.0 📏

Create slab type layouts procedurally in After Effects.

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@fredberria Heck yeah bro

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@bruvimtired Adobe After Effects

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@_nicdean @ae_screens PosterizeTime(0) is the 🐐 of Source Text expressions! Couldn't live without it

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@andysrobots So satisfying to watch! Excited for release

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Experimenting with toCompVec() inside an expression selector to hide words that don't face the camera

Lots of potential for kinetic type stuff

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@fremox59 Your tool looks dope though! Actually have a similar setup from some time ago

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Developing Line Sizer 2.0 came with some challenges. One of them was trying to make it work with paragraph text. Sadly, I had to scrap it due to the unpredictable nature of text wrapping and some other issues.

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@fremox59 Mamoun showed it to me a while back! I haven't got it though. Matter of fact, I tried multi-columning Line Sizer v1 already, but having it all dynamically on a single layer was slow as balls so it stayed a textperiment 😂

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@broadcastGEMs Exactly, the scaling caused a post-expression reflow which was out of my control. And yeah I agree!

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Performance took a massive hit too since I had to use a helper function that loops through each word and detects where a virtual line break occurs in order to compose the text lines needed for further calculations. While that was fully working, the line-scaling would cause a post-expression reflow again.

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@fredberria You're a real one Fred

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V2 comes with these new features:

- Multiple fonts & fill colors per word
- Improved leading algorithm
- Two leading modes: Default & Optical
- Bakable via "Convert Expression To Keyframes"

Grab Line Sizer for free now:
https://t.co/btCAgeKBhR

[Julian @typographae]

Introducing Line Sizer 2.0 📏

Create slab type layouts procedurally in After Effects.

[Julian @typographae]

Simply apply the preset et voilà—no manual scaling or multi-layer expression madness needed.

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@NLE_Ninja Glad to hear it held up in your work Kes!

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Back to creating presets!

Currently locking in v2 of Line Sizer, which is now powered by text style expressions.

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@onderk_motion Thank ya!

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@AlexanderSkhirt Ty bro <3

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@fredberria Merci :)

[Julian @typographae]

@luigimx_ Thanks Luis! Your Expression Selector video was one of my gateways into text expressions :)

[Julian @typographae]

@AutomotionTools That's the goal! No RTFM needed haha