After Effects: Resize Textbox Hack with Expressions

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Today we'll learn how to use some clever expressions in After Effects to manually control textbox sizes with sliders. This can be a handy trick if you're trying to resize the textbox dynamically, whether for UI/UX animations or other reasons.

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