Automation

Spreadsheet to text layers

Refer to CoMotion 2021 title sequence

Spreadsheet to compositions

Normalize width of layers

nominalValue/width*100

nominal = 100
offset = 900; // connect to slider control
threshold = 0;
//
swidth = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime().width;

svalue = nominal/swidth;
*

// conditional 
if(swidth>threshold){
    [svalue,svalue,svalue]*offset
}

logo=thisLayer.source.layer(thisLayer.source.numLayers);
sHeight=height/logo.height;
sWidth=width/logo.width;
s=Math.min(sHeight,sWidth);
value*s

Normalizing image/logo sizes based on sampling alpha

normalizedScale = value*(nominalValue/width)

nominalWidth = 200;
leftEdge = 0;

for (i = 0; i <= width; i++){
  temp = sampleImage([i,height/2],[0.5,height/2],true,time);
  if (temp[3] > 0){
    leftEdge = i;
    break;
  }
}

rightEdge = width-1;

for (i = width-1; i >= 0; i--){
  temp = sampleImage([i,height/2],[0.5,height/2],true,time);
  if (temp[3] > 0){
    rightEdge = i;
    break;
  }
}
value*nominalWidth/(rightEdge-leftEdge+1)
// cacheCompareSamplesPerSecond 0

nominalHeight = 200;
topEdge = 0;
for (i = 0; i <= height; i++){
  temp = sampleImage([width/2,i],[width/2,0.5],true,time);
  if (temp[3] > 0){
    topEdge = i;
    break;
  }
}
bottomEdge = height-1;
for (i = height-1; i >= 0; i--){
  temp = sampleImage([width/2,i],[width/2,0.5],true,time);
  if (temp[3] > 0){
    bottomEdge = i;
    break;
  }
}

alphaheight = (bottomEdge-topEdge+1); // in pixels 
value*nominalHeight/alphaheight*100/value[1]

// for logos that are symmetrical
//nominal values;
n1 = 200;
n2 = 400;
n3 = 800;

topEdge = 0;
for (i = 0; i <= height; i++){
  temp = sampleImage([width/2,i],[width/2,0.5],true,time);
  if (temp[3] > 0){
    topEdge = i;
    break;
  }
}

leftEdge = 0;

for (i = 0; i <= width; i++){
  temp = sampleImage([i,height/2],[0.5,height/2],true,time);
  if (temp[3] > 0){
    leftEdge = i;
    break;
  }
}
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aRatio = leftEdge/topHeight;
if(aRatio<1.1){value*n1/leftEfge