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Here is my situation... I am building a lower third that has an auto scale box with the text. I know how to make a mask reveal on a regular lower third, but when I try to do it with this one, I can't figure out what seems to be the layer rendering. Once I add the scalable lower third (box is child of text, auto scale to width) to the layer, the text disappears. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Are you doing 2D or 3D? If 3D, you may need to offset the Z position of the box by -1, since. If 2D, then check your scene rendering setting... if it is on automatic, try setting it to manual.
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It is 2D. Here is a snip of the object manager

And here is a snip of the layer controls 

Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?

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Well, the White Box is below your text layer, so its 'above' it in the rendering order.

So, there are 2 ways I know of to fix this:

1 - move the White Box above your text in the hierarchy and and use VL to control the length of your box via the text's Bounding Box Width Scaled parameter.
2 - Put a perspective camera in the scene and make it active (effectively making your scene live 3D space) and set your White Box's Z position to -1
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Could you walk me through the VL option? I've never done a scalable box through VL.
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Here's a file to check out. The setup is very simple, and I only included Left and Ctr justified versions to illustrate the usefulness of changing the pivot point to match your text. If you can't do that for some reason, there are ways around it,. but it's not usually an issue.

Text VL.zip

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Thank you so much! This works great. I've never scaled boxes like this but I prefer using the VL method much better. Thank you for your help.

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