• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Making other text layers change with a master text layer

  Posted by Kevin Gonzales on October 11, 2013 at 5:08 pm

  Hi:

  I’m really new at expressions so, what i’m trying to do is have a master text layer and then a child layer right behind it. When I change the master I’d the child (or slave, whatever the right verbiage is) to change automatically as well. How do you go about doing that? Please keep in mind, I’m really new to expressions.

  Thanks

  Kevin Gonzales
  http://www.12point.net

  Dan Ebberts replied 12 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Dan Ebberts

  October 11, 2013 at 5:20 pm

  Just use the pickwhip to link the Source Text property of the children layers to that of the parent. The expression will look like this:

  thisComp.layer(“parent”).text.sourceText

  Dan

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