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m_schmid
m_schmid
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October 10, 2017
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Automatic hyphenation in After Effects

  • October 10, 2017
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Hi!

Is it possible to use automatic hyphenation in After Effets like in Photoshop? I made a paragraph text and After Effects just pushes the overlapping letters into the next line without any sense -.-
I can't do the hyphens manually as the text will be loaded dynamically for every rendering.

It would be great if someone had a hint for me to get this automatic hyphenation done.

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    Correct answer Mylenium

    No, there is no such thing. AE doesn't use any form of dictionary. You have to pre-format the text suitably in another program, which is perfectly possible and shouldn't be too much of an issue.

    Mylenium

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    Mylenium
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    October 10, 2017

    No, there is no such thing. AE doesn't use any form of dictionary. You have to pre-format the text suitably in another program, which is perfectly possible and shouldn't be too much of an issue.

    Mylenium

    Julio Dojo
    Julio Dojo
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    January 31, 2022

    Hey Mylenium,

     

    seems like you are represented in every thread I am looking at :)) Thanks for your contributions!

    For a project of mine, I am automatically reading-in text from a spreadsheet into text layers in After Effects.

     

    The problem with this, each row of the spreadsheet has different text in length.

    If I drag open a textbox in After Effects there will be some sort of character separation

    when text overflows the textbox, but it doesn't hyphenate according to a dictionary (e.g InDesign).

     

    Do you know of any plugins or expression code that could accomplish this sort of thing?

    I think an expression using the sourceRectAtTime could at least insert a hyphen "-"

    when text overflows the textbox. I only don't know how to code it.

     

    Best regards

    Julio

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