Brent Walker
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Brent Walker
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‎Feb 19, 2025
05:00 PM
odd - my scroll wheel is just scrolling vertically. I've been using the Z trick, but my hand automatically returns to the cmd/option/shift position we're all already used to so that's a much easier transition to make and is more in line with the other tools I use anyways. After digging in a little more after your reply and before hitting Post, switching trackpad scrolling from pan to zoom solves my issue. I still think that (if using a trackpad) 'pans' is a vastly more efficient experience than 'zooms' (does anyone use the hand tool? I can't remember ever doing so on purpose), so having the CMD to zoom would still be relevant, and a good choice to include
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‎Feb 19, 2025
04:38 PM
Smooth zoom is an improvement in every way over Legacy EXCEPT the need to switch tools to zoom, which is IMO a baffling decision considering how often zooms happen. Instead, I would ask for using CMD+mouse scroll as a shortcut for zoom. This is far more standard and a better UX than fully switching tools. I can't imagine a situation where centered zoom would be preferred over following the cursor.
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‎Jun 16, 2023
11:51 AM
1 Upvote
I LOVE un-precompose, but it has several limitations—mostly its inability to deal with EGP comps. I've also run into some strange bugs with it over the years—having it natively should solve those problems.
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‎Jun 16, 2023
11:41 AM
66 Upvotes
Currently, I can read the style attributes per character using sourceTextProperty.getStyleAt(index). I should be able to set the styling in the same way, but instead you can only set it for the entire layer at once. This would be a game-changer for MOGRTs and Essential Graphics as well, if I could copy the kerning from a live text layer and have it pass all that information to my EGP comp, it would be next level in terms of how much MOGRTs could accomplish.
For example, I have a stacked font that needs multiple layers to achieve the effect my client is looking for. I also need to adjust leading/baseline shift etc, and doing this for each instance is repetitive and error-prone. If I could use a simple for-loop to copy this character by character this would significantly lessen the amount of work this takes.
Even better would be a set of additional methods that could set it all at once - something like .sourceText, but inclusive of all styling— .sourceTextAndStyle or something similar.
The following is how I could see this working:
var sourceTextProperty = thisComp.layer("SourceTextLayer").text.sourceTextAndStyle; //creates an exact copy of SourceTextLayer, which can then further be modified:
var newStyle = sourceTextProperty.getStyleAt(0,0);
newStyle.setStyleAt(0,5).setFont("Helvetica") .setBaselineShift(10);
//change the font from characters 0 - 5 to Helvetica with a baseline shift of +10
OR
var sourceTextProperty = thisComp.layer("SourceTextLayer").text.sourceText;
var newStyle = sourceTextProperty.style;
for (i = 0; i < sourceTextProperty.length; i++){
newStyle[i] = sourceTextProperty.style[i];
//iterate through the style array and copy that style character-by-character.
}
newStyle.setFont("Helvetica");
//changes the font, but would keep all text attributes from sourceTextLayer intact.
I'm sure there are plenty of implementation details that I missed, but hopefully this gets the point across.
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‎Mar 06, 2023
03:44 PM
1 Upvote
Thanks for the cred @JohnColombo! I would LOVE to have this option available (stock) in EPs so also thanks to @Taylor Jon Peters for posting it. I've added my support, and hope it gets about 5000 more votes ASAP 🤞
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‎Sep 28, 2022
03:48 AM
YES PLEASE
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‎Apr 02, 2020
12:58 PM
Happens for me too – no wacom ever installed. Happens right away at selection, once again at roughly 1 screen height, and then AGAIN once every ~5 seconds of selecting. Literally cost me hours of waiting on this last project.
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