aescripts + aeplugins

Alex Dinnin · August 2017

Downloaded a trial version.. as soon as I click on the TextBox Effect

After Effects crashes.

Might not buy this after all

James Scott · August 2017

Neat little plugin. Trial works fine in CS6 and CC2017 on Mac.

James Whiffin · August 2017

Alex Dinnin said:

Downloaded a trial version.. as soon as I click on the TextBox Effect

After Effects crashes.

Might not buy this after all

Hi Alex. Could you please let me know which operating system and version of After Effects you're using so I could pinpoint the cause of this issue?

William Thibaut · August 2017

I have the same problem as Alex.

Just bought the plugin and installed it. But when i apply the effect, After Effects crashes.

I'm using the version 2017.2 (14.2.1.34) of AE and i'm on 10.12.5 version of mac OS.

David Jolosky · August 2017

Same same on CRASH! Same specs as William

Paul Girolamo · August 2017

Just installed this Crashes AE when I try to use it.

MAC OS 10.12.6 After Effects 14.2.1.34

Miika Turunen · August 2017

Great tool! Joust bought it!

-It would be great if you could draw box per word or per line.

-If possible it would be great to be able to skew beyond 5%.

Thanks!

Jerry Honeycutt · August 2017

+1 for the crashing. Just bought. Not usable.

James Whiffin · August 2017

Alex Dinnin said:

Downloaded a trial version.. as soon as I click on the TextBox Effect

After Effects crashes.

Might not buy this after all

Hi Alex, the issue has been resolved if you'd like to try it again.

brian fearon · August 2017

Very buggy. So much this plug in is unusable. It is affecting my video on layers below, inserting one frame from what appears to be cached memory. Very frustrating! Will be asking for full refund.

Gary Furlow · August 2017

Having same problem as above. Instant crash with original download from a week ago. Downloaded again, deleted older version, dropped in new downloaded version. Didn't crash. Now testing it out.

gf

Patrick Poelchau · August 2017

Hey Guys,

works great for me (AE CC 17.3 on a pc), however, I would love if you could add one feature:

I use it for subtitles right now, but whenever the bottom sentence doesn't have a lower case (such as j, y, etc.) letter or a comma, the bottom border is slightly higher than with the other boxes. That looks minor irritating, so if you could add a feature like "fix bottom border), that would be great

Jerry Honeycutt · August 2017

There's nothing particularly sexy about this plug-in. That's pretty awesome, though. It does exactly what it's supposed to do: Saves a lot of time. Now that the crashing bug has been fixed, I can wholeheartedly recommend this. Great job on a simple tool that saves me time every day.

Declan Zimmermann · September 2017

Awesome plug-in!

Is there any way to extract the dimensions of the resulting shape, for use in expressions?

If not, please consider this a feature request as it would greatly multiply the plug-in's usefulness.

Thanks!

James Whiffin · September 2017

Is there any way to extract the dimensions of the resulting shape, for use in expressions?

Hi Declan. This seems do-able, I'm interested in your ideas about new possibilities if this feature were to be implemented. Something to do with creating borders or beams by triangulating the box coordinates?

Krzysztof Mr.K Karnicki · September 2017

I second Patrick Poelchau on the need to have some kind of "force expansion width/height values" as the white space around the subtitles usually needs to be constant.

Great stuff!

K.

Krzysztof Mr.K Karnicki · September 2017

On second thoughts - I guess only the height should have a "force expansion value" checkbox since the variable character height and the various national hyphens, dots and dashes is what makes for the unwanted variation. The width is ruled by the text width and should be auto adjusted as it is now.

Andrew Embury · September 2017

Love it, the only thing I'd suggest is an overall transform for the box that can be unlinked and linked dynamically. Overall, fantastic product.

joris cool · September 2017

nice plugin!

3 thoughts:

1 - option to make the expansion a percentage, that way scaling the text keeps the relative expansion

2 - make the transform offsets anchor points keyframeable! lots of extra animation possibilities in 1 layer that way

3 - if possible a way to matte the text to the fill SHAPE also (this way text can have different opacity than the fill opacity, but still be matted by the border of the shape if that makes sense)

other than that, i love it!

cheerio!

- j

Valentine Obasuyi · October 2017

There needs to be a way to lock the shape of the box, so that the shape doesn't change height when text is rotated.

Unless there's a way to do this without pre-comping text

Daniel Siegl · October 2017

The Plugin is there. (Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects <version>\Support

Files\Plug-ins)

Daniel Siegl · October 2017

Daniel Siegl said:

The Plugin is there. (Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects <version>\Support Files\Plug-ins)

Any news on this issue?

Thank you!
Daniel

Daniel Siegl · October 2017

There's a problem switching between macOS and Windows. Creating a AE File on Windows and opening it on macOS result to the "missing PlugIn" error message. The same happens the other way. I always have to add the effect (its actually there) again and copy the settings from the "old" Effect panel.

James Whiffin · October 2017

Daniel Siegl said:

There's a problem switching between macOS and Windows. Creating a AE File on Windows and opening it on macOS result to the "missing PlugIn" error message. The same happens the other way. I always have to add the effect (its actually there) again and copy the settings from the "old" Effect panel.

Hi Daniel. I'm aware of this issue and have a possible fix coming very soon.

Martin Löfqvist · October 2017

Neat little plugin! Seems very promising.

Is it possible to get the text box to use the current visible size of the text, say if I'm animating the opacity the a range selector on the text. Basically the same way as sourceRectAtTime is working.

/M

S.F. van den Brink · November 2017

Great plugin, very useful - however, despite registering it renders a cross across all the scenes where it is applied. Could having upgraded to CC2018 have anything to do with it?

S.F. van den Brink · November 2017

S.F. van den Brink said:

Great plugin, very useful - however, despite registering it renders a cross across all the scenes where it is applied. Could having upgraded to CC2018 have anything to do with it?

Should have opened a support ticket (saw the link too late) but I might have fixed it per these instructions: https://aescripts.com/knowledgebase/index/view/faq/how-to-register-plugins/

Avinash Ramanath · November 2017

Awesome plugin. Very useful,

Could you please make templates and share. That will be very helpful to video editors like me.

Andrew Koz · January 2018

Hi there. I got a quick question: I work on two PCs and I was thinking of using the plugin in my project. Should I install the plugin on both machines or there is a way to save everything as a preset? Thanks.

James Whiffin · January 2018

Andrew Koz said:

Hi there. I got a quick question: I work on two PCs and I was thinking of using the plugin in my project. Should I install the plugin on both machines or there is a way to save everything as a preset? Thanks.

Hi Andrew

You can install the product on both machines and save your presets as .ffx files to make your workflow more efficient. You just can't have more than one computer running it at one time with only one license.

Andrew Koz · January 2018

James Whiffin said:

Andrew Koz said:

Hi there. I got a quick question: I work on two PCs and I was thinking of using the plugin in my project. Should I install the plugin on both machines or there is a way to save everything as a preset? Thanks.

Hi Andrew
You can install the product on both machines and save your presets as .ffx files to make your workflow more efficient. You just can't have more than one computer running it at one time with only one license.

Thanks for the quick respond James

Just to make it clear, I won't be able to continue working on my project on a machine without plugin installed. Correct? Thanks.

James Whiffin · January 2018

Andrew Koz said:

James Whiffin said:

Andrew Koz said:

Hi there. I got a quick question: I work on two PCs and I was thinking of using the plugin in my project. Should I install the plugin on both machines or there is a way to save everything as a preset? Thanks.

Hi Andrew
You can install the product on both machines and save your presets as .ffx files to make your workflow more efficient. You just can't have more than one computer running it at one time with only one license.

Thanks for the quick respond James Just to make it clear, I won't be able to continue working on my project on a machine with no plugin installed. Correct? Thanks.

That's correct, the plugin must be installed even if you use the .ffx preset.

Andrew Koz · January 2018

James Whiffin said:

Andrew Koz said:

James Whiffin said:

Andrew Koz said:

Hi there. I got a quick question: I work on two PCs and I was thinking of using the plugin in my project. Should I install the plugin on both machines or there is a way to save everything as a preset? Thanks.

Hi Andrew
You can install the product on both machines and save your presets as .ffx files to make your workflow more efficient. You just can't have more than one computer running it at one time with only one license.

Thanks for the quick respond James Just to make it clear, I won't be able to continue working on my project on a machine with no plugin installed. Correct? Thanks.

That's correct, the plugin must be installed even if you use the .ffx preset.

Got it. Thank you James.

Church Motion Graphics · January 2018

Feature requests

-Expand with negative numbers

- Turn border on/off for top, buttom, left and right.

uma guru · February 2018

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Having this glitch problem in my textbox plugin....Do you have any solution for this ? else ....kindly fix this soon..thank you...

James Whiffin · March 2018

uma guru said:

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Having this glitch problem in my textbox plugin....Do you have any solution for this ? else ....kindly fix this soon..thank you...

Hi Uma. That's the watermark, if you are getting this and have typed in your license code then please try purging your memory and/or deactivating the license and entering it again.

uma guru · March 2018

James Whiffin said:

uma guru said:

Click this - imagelink

Having this glitch problem in my textbox plugin....Do you have any solution for this ? else ....kindly fix this soon..thank you...

Hi Uma. That's the watermark, if you are getting this and have typed in your license code then please try purging your memory and/or deactivating the license and entering it again.

Thank you James...i didn't register it with my key...since i am new i didn't see that register option....entered the key i purchased working fine...thank you..

Sam Doughty · April 2018

First of all, I love this, and am so glad I found it. Thank you for making this.

One question -- if I want a gradient fill for my box, what's the best method of achieving that?

James Whiffin · April 2018

Sam Doughty said:

First of all, I love this, and am so glad I found it. Thank you for making this.

One question -- if I want a gradient fill for my box, what's the best method of achieving that?

Hi Sam

Thanks for your feedback. Currently you may want to solo the box and add the gradient fill effect. We'll be adding gradient options in a future update.

Oz Yerushalmi · April 2018

Thank you for the plugin.

I've got a question. Could there be an option for the box to disregard text animators? Let's say I want a position animaton of letters from top to bottom. Currently, it just expands the box to where the letters are, or moves around with them. If there would be a way to switch it off, would make this priceless:)

James Whiffin · April 2018

Oz Yerushalmi said:

Thank you for the plugin.
I've got a question. Could there be an option for the box to disregard text animators? Let's say I want a position animaton of letters from top to bottom. Currently, it just expands the box to where the letters are, or moves around with them. If there would be a way to switch it off, would make this priceless:)

Thanks for your feedback Oz, it's a great idea. I think there could be a "freeze position of textbox" button which you click, and if enabled then the text would not update, but reference the frozen position. I'll do some experimenting this week.

Robert Paige · May 2018

Is there a way to keep the Height the same constantly with the text? Whenever I use characters with a decender (g,y,q,j) the height of the box enlarges, but I just want it fixed at a certain height.

Thanks!

James Whiffin · May 2018

Robert Paige said:

Is there a way to keep the Height the same constantly with the text? Whenever I use characters with a decender (g,y,q,j) the height of the box enlarges, but I just want it fixed at a certain height.

Thanks!

Hi Robert

Thanks for your suggestion. We've been working on a way to achieve this. Unfortunately it wouldn't be possible with multi-line text, but I think it will be implemented in a future update.

Miika Turunen · May 2018

When will this support 3D space? Would be very handy if it would, now it's useful only half of the time. If you add the 3D to this, it would be cool if you could disable it from the plugin, because sometimes you might want to have 2D text box on a 3D text layer. Today I needed this with 3D box

weird core · June 2018

hi there

just got this,, it's amazing

but with multilines/paragraph, is there a way to to have a box per line,, so the width of the box is adjust at each line,, rather that one set width for the whole paragraph?

if not currently possible natively, is there a way around to achieve this, like in combination with another script or something?

please let me know

thanks

Nick

James Whiffin · June 2018

weird core said:

hi there
just got this,, it's amazing
but with multilines/paragraph, is there a way to to have a box per line,, so the width of the box is adjust at each line,, rather that one set width for the whole paragraph?
if not currently possible natively, is there a way around to achieve this, like in combination with another script or something?
please let me know
thanks
Nick

Hi Nick

Thanks for your comment. It's not currently possible but seems like a good feature to add, I'll give it a shot. In the meantime, I'd use decompose text script to separate by line and add a textbox to each. Not ideal but that's the best solution I can suggest.

weird core · June 2018

James Whiffin said:

weird core said:

hi there
just got this,, it's amazing
but with multilines/paragraph, is there a way to to have a box per line,, so the width of the box is adjust at each line,, rather that one set width for the whole paragraph?
if not currently possible natively, is there a way around to achieve this, like in combination with another script or something?
please let me know
thanks
Nick

Hi Nick

Thanks for your comment. It's not currently possible but seems like a good feature to add, I'll give it a shot. In the meantime, I'd use decompose text script to separate by line and add a textbox to each. Not ideal but that's the best solution I can suggest.

thanks for the speedy response

looking forward to see if you can make it work,,, as it woudbe really great

& thanks for the suggestions, but unfortunately it would not work in this case, as the text is in a constant state of flux via the expressions text transitions,, so it's all dynamic. & never static

Miika Turunen · June 2018

If someone would bother replying to my question about the 3D textbox feature that would have been great. In the meanwhile I asked about the same issue on another tool that does the same job. Their reply came within one day and that reply was that the feature was added within a day from me asking about it.

James Whiffin · June 2018

Miika Turunen said:

If someone would bother replying to my question about the 3D textbox feature that would have been great. In the meanwhile I asked about the same issue on another tool that does the same job. Their reply came within one day and that reply was that the feature was added within a day from me asking about it.

Hi Miika

I apologise for not replying to your previous comment. 3D is coming but not in the next release, it will be in the one afterwards I'm afraid. Out of curiosity which product does the same thing and in 3D?

weird core · June 2018

James Whiffin said:

weird core said:

hi there
just got this,, it's amazing
but with multilines/paragraph, is there a way to to have a box per line,, so the width of the box is adjust at each line,, rather that one set width for the whole paragraph?
if not currently possible natively, is there a way around to achieve this, like in combination with another script or something?
please let me know
thanks
Nick

Hi Nick

Thanks for your comment. It's not currently possible but seems like a good feature to add, I'll give it a shot. In the meantime, I'd use decompose text script to separate by line and add a textbox to each. Not ideal but that's the best solution I can suggest.

Hi James

have you had any luck with trying to add that feature?

if so would love to beta test : )

N

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