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  Text stays the same with duplicate layers

  Posted by John Blake on August 8, 2008 at 8:05 pm

  I’m new to AE so bare with me, as I feel this is a pretty simple problem.

  I’ve made a simple scrolling text animation in my project and want to have the ani. appear throughout the video 10 times, with 10 different strings of text. However, when I duplicate the text layer and try to edit the text of the copy, the text changes on both copies. What am I doing wrong?

  Thank you in advance!

  Simon Bonner replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Simon Bonner

  August 9, 2008 at 12:31 pm

  I have no idea! Never happened to me before, but let me describe the steps I would go through to do this and see if you spot anything you’ve not done.

  1 – select the text tool
  2 – click in the comp panel and type the text
  3 – hit V to get the selection tool back
  4 – place the current time indicator to where I want the text to disappear and hit alt+] to trim it to that time.
  5 – hit ctrl+D to duplicate the layer
  6 – select the duplicate layer
  7 – hit page down and then [ to move the in point of the duplicate to the frame after the end point of the original
  8 – select the text tool again
  9 – click on the duplicate text layer in the comp panel and change the text.

  And you’re done.

  Simon Bonner
  
  youtube.com/simonsaysFX

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