• Adobe After Effects

  Editing Text layer content, but NOT in the comp window

  Posted by Eric Chard on May 29, 2014 at 6:32 pm

  I have an EXTREMELY long horizontal text layer, and would prefer to edit it NOT in the UI, but in a separate panel, like an input panel.

  (I was hoping EDIT VALUE would allow this, rather like in the Bad Olde Days, but I guess that got improved away….)

  Is there any provision for editing the Text content that is sorta separate from the comp/layers windows?

  Thanks.

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  Michael Szalapski replied 11 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Michael Szalapski

  May 29, 2014 at 6:46 pm

  I just edit in Notepad or some other plain text editor, then paste it into AE. If you need to do things like set bold, italics, sizes, superscript, etc. I don’t know of a way to do that anywhere but the comp window.

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