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johnmcmullin
johnmcmullin
Inspiring
September 28, 2023
Question

Scale individual words and have surrounding, unscaled words move to correct position

  • September 28, 2023
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So I know I can select a group of words in a line of text and scale them up using text animators. But they then overlap with the unscaled words next to them and become unreadable.

 

I have a client that has stated that they want this sort of highlighting and it's for a really long video to play at a kind of trade fair; 88 different pages with text in them. With a lot of long lines that I need to copy and paste.

 

I feel that I'll need to split them all up into separate text object and work out the code using source-rectangle size but I was wondering if anyone knows a quick fix that I'm unaware of.

 

Many thanks,

 

John

 

 

 

 

 

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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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September 29, 2023

You will have to add Tracking and Scale to the animator. You may also need to add Position to the same animator or add a second animator. I created several text animations with three different animators to get the look I wanted. You might want to try enabling per-character 3D and animating the Z position.

 

 

johnmcmullin
johnmcmullinAuthor
Inspiring
September 29, 2023

Once you pointed that out to me I did it to a simple line really quickly. I'm doing it by word, so I just have to add a second animator to modify the position of the text to the left and a third to modify text to the right of the scaling text. Looks prety good. Still think it'd be nice to have this kind of behaviour as a kind of option with a single animator as it would save a lot of time when you've got to do it multiple times, but it's not too bad.

Many thanks Rick.

 

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