Auto-adjusting blinking cursor | After Effects Tutorial

Magic tutorial!

Thanks for idea

Advantage: Full control over cursor

Downside: scale range selector will not treat space as scale increase, so cursor will jump through any text space to beginning of the next word, looks a little bit clunky.

excellent.. thanks for sharing.. I prefer this method over the others that are overly complicated

Thanks Manuel! I use this all the time. Is there a way to make the cursor go down to the next line after a paragraph break?

For me the formula had to be
w=effect("Layer Control")("Layer");
[w.sourceRectAtTime(w.sourceTime()).width]
Including the sourceTime() to account for placement on the timeline and also clip shifting

Hello Manuel! And thank you for a very nice tutorial. I have a small problem I need your help with. The Width slider is not updating with the right value at the beginning of the animation. So for example, when I have the 4 first letter of my first word the width is still showing 0,00. When the width of the text layer is bigger than the with of my null object then it begins to move the null object. Do you have any idea my I get this delay? I tried resizing the noll object without any success. Thanx again!

First expression doesn't update slider value, rechecked it multiple times

Amazing tutorial, thanks you for it !
I have one issue, the whole expression doesn't work if everything is not at the very beginning of my comp.
To be clear, if the layers are in the middle of my comp, the width value won't change. Do you have any idea why ?

Tshüss :)

I was doing a 3 text lines with this.
I kept getting an strange error when duplicating the 3 items (text, null and cursor) and updating the expressions and even the layer control:
Null stopped working when updating the "Source Text".
After a lot of trial and error I was able to fix it, by deactivating the expressions before updating the "Source Text".

That's very clever. It's an effect I find myself making a lot but I've always done it manually, hadn't thought to link the cursor to the text width. Thanks!

It worked! This was pretty useful right now. THANKS!!

grate tutorial
really helped a lot...

Fantastic Manuel. Thank you teacher. So good! ✌🏻🍀💫💫🍀

Gr8 tutorial. Really helpful. One thing I want to add is rather than adding the scale property and then animating it, u can simply use the 'Typewriter' effect from the effects panel. It's just a preset of the same animation. I hope u find it helpful

how to use to RTL ?

thanks
how make this to presets to we can use to any time by one click ???

Yo

Hi :)