TextBox is a native plugin that creates a perfectly sized, customizable shape behind your text that updates automatically and is applied directly to the text layer so no need for parenting, mattes or expressions.

Core Features:

• Automatically updates with your text

• Shape options (auto, square, circle, polygon)

• Expansion

• Round corners

• Full transform controls to animate the box independently from text

• Matting options

• Border options

• Works with vertical, horizontal & paragraph text

• Compatible with motion blur

v2 New Features:

• Polygon mode

• Customisable expansion (width, height, left, right, top, bottom)

• Negative expansion

• Individual edge rounding

• Gradient options (linear, radial, individual gradient opacity)

• New matting options

• Border dashes & line cap options (butt & rounded)

• 8, 16 & 32bpc compatible

• Better rotation mechanics (compatible with parented transforms)

Useful Applications:

• Animating text in and out

• Adding stylish backgrounds to text

• Creating lower thirds

• Creating subtitles or closed captions