How to Auto-Size Text to a Shape Layer in After Effects

Any ideas for filling non square shapes with paragraph text?

this is great! been looking for a while! great!

Thanks dawg

I love your teaching style. Even with a background in coding, I appreciate how you broke down the reasoning for your code. Thanks, Sergei!

Can you show how to make it work with Bezier Paths shape layers? Cause I have a client who's asking me for a shape layer that has 3 rounded corners except one square

Серёг, второй раз спасаешь. То CSV таблицу обьяснил как пульнуть в ае, то этот видос с автоматизацией

very very helpful. thank you so much. You're life saver

Sergei I would be highly interested in a Mogrt and scripting course from you, not just expressions. Your explanations and thought process is concise and sharp. I would really love to learn how to create effective mogarts and/or scripts for my work like you do. (Like in your Excel sheet episode, when you created a script to help you automate all the grueling work)

Thank you for everything you teach and give, wish you all the success and prosperity in the world 🙏

Thanks.. Great tutorial. How do you auto resize the textbox to the maximum width of two or more separate text layers?

Sergei! You're always my go-to on this when I'm absolutely desperate.

Is there a way to sourceRectAtTime specific lines of text and not the whole text layer? I want to take a shape layer size and tie the width to the top line of a text.

Excellent tutorial - thank you so much

what if text is right or left aligned insted of center, how to control shape size with left or right corner fixed?

Very nice tutorial and great job explaining!! Very useful Thanks!!
Would this be posible to achieve with text size, character tracking and line spacing properties? Probably a dumb question lol

¡Thank youuuuuuu! :D

What way is there to add margins only on one side of the text?

When you turned the scale into pixel value, and when you applied the smallestValue. Standing ovation! Brilliant!

Might anyone know how to maintain a specific point sizes?

Such a useful video - loads of great bits and bobs here that I didn't know before. Great stuff, liked and subscribed :D

Why do I get an error "couldn't turn result into numeric value" when defining the x var?
x= 600;

I'm on AE 2021 if that matters...

You are actually saving my life right now with a job I have ahah. Thank you so much for your amazing tips and especially the way you explain everything, I'll definitely consider buying your expressions lessons!

Have a great day Sergei & Ukramedia !

Thank you .. for explaining each and every step .. with logic to understand. You are awesome!

Thank you! I've used this method countless times after learning this. One question, sorry if I missed it... when I add a comma or some other special characters, it expands the box but I'd rather keep the box the same size and just have the comma cut off slightly (for templating purposes). Is there a way to do that?

I don't think I have this fx when I search in effects and presets. Can you tell me more please?

Are there any free plugins that do the same?

If you receive "error undefined value used in expression" when trying to make the text adjust to the smallest value, this appears to be an issue with javascript, and will work fine if you change the expressions engine to legacy (can be changed in the project settings)

Can you please tell me that How i can practice more n more after effect as i am out of ideas BUT i want keep learning

Standing Ovation for explanation. Bravo Bro

😮WOW. You are so so PRO. teach us more

Sergei, thank you for another great tutorial! I wonder if there is a way in AE to put text inside an irregular shape? A triangle for example? Thank you!

Very impressed with the explanations in this tutorial - really helps to understand expressions in general as well as for this example :-)

Amazing !

So Awesome this!

How do you reveal the auto complete the scripts, and errors report?

Sergei! This is awesome! Thanks for sharing all this content and let me tell you that the way/method you explain coding is super accesible to someone who doenst has writen code ever! Keep going!
If its possible I would like ask you the method to get the comp size by coding. Kind of the sourceRectAtTime but for composition. Again, thanks 👏

Hi, there is something wrong with the project file. It´s imposible to download it. Thank you for your hard work I am learning a lot from your videos.

Great tut, But it doesn't work on the new JS expression engine, can you write what we need to change for it to work ?

This was a huge help Sergei! Just what I needed to update the templates on a massive project I'm working on. As a fellow NC-based motion designer just want to send a big thanks!!! Next time you're in Durham (post-COVID) let me know - first round is on me. Cheers!

If you asking tip at the end of the tutorial then I suggest don't call it aproject free!

Just discovered your tutorials today after spending money and time on paid courses weeks ago... I wish I saw your videos earlier. I learned so much! So thank you for that! I have a question though, how can I autosize my rectangle around my text while having some keyframes to animate my rectangle?

I don't think anyone can explain better than how you did. Excellent tutorial man. You deserve at least 500,000 subs if not a million. You literally give out info that other people are giving out in paid courses, and that also is probably not explained as well as you would.

Sergei, if I use your SmartRekt tool to make a composition, and then make a mogrt from that comp, will it work in Premiere Pro without SmartRekt installed?

Really useful. Thank you for sharing this tutorial. ^0^

Great tutorial !! in AE CC 2020 you can apply expressions on text properties like font, styles, kerning, etc... how to link those values like font size instead of scale value?

Wow amazing tutorials really
Keep up my Dear 👍

Can you make a tutorial about Large comp sizes setup and render settings for large 6k or higher comps for giant screens? Example: comp size for giant billboard or in arena graphics. Thanks

Can't download.

Well done.