Interesting problem with changing multiple text layers

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Interesting problem with changing multiple text layers

Posted by Nebo Beat on September 12, 2020 at 8:08 pm

Well, at least I hope it’s interesting for someone, enough so there will be some helpful info:D
I found no solution anywhere, or anyone asking for something similar at all hm…

So, I have several projects with lots of different text layers…Small amount of text per layer, but many layers. They are in CYRILIC. Now, I need to replace all of text with regular LATIN letters – same text and everything, just every text layer to be Latin, not Cyrilic.
Pleasee relieve me from painful manual retyping and tell me there is a script or some trick that can do this? 🙂 It’s not that it’s just manual work, with so many projects and text layers, mistakes will be made etc…
thanksss

Filip Vandueren replied 6 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
2 Replies

Filip Vandueren
September 13, 2020 at 12:13 pm

But then “Ж” would have to become “zh” ?

Filip Vandueren

September 13, 2020 at 12:59 pm

Here’s a script that changes all the Cyrillic texts to latin in the current comp,
some formatting will get lost, but that’s a limitation of After Effects.

app.beginUndoGroup("Cyrillic to Latin");
var thisComp = app.project.activeItem;
if (!thisComp.layers) $.writeln("no layers");
else {
    for(var i=1; i<=thisComp.numLayers; i++) {
        var l = thisComp.layer(i);
        if (l.hasOwnProperty("ADBE Text Properties")) {
            var txt = l("ADBE Text Properties")("ADBE Text Document");
            if (txt.numKeys) {
                for(var j=1; j<=txt.numKeys; j++) {
                    txt.setValueAtKey(j, transliterate(txt.keyValue(j)));
                    }
                } else {
                    txt.setValue(transliterate(txt.value));
                    }
            }
     }
}
// from @briemens via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11404047/transliterating-cyrillic-to-latin-with-javascript-function
var a = {"Ё":"YO","Й":"I","Ц":"TS","У":"U","К":"K","Е":"E","Н":"N",
"Г":"G","Ш":"SH","Щ":"SCH","З":"Z","Х":"H","Ъ":"'","ё":"yo","й":"i",
"ц":"ts","у":"u","к":"k","е":"e","н":"n","г":"g","ш":"sh","щ":"sch",
"з":"z","х":"h","ъ":"'","Ф":"F","Ы":"I","В":"V","А":"a","П":"P","Р":"R",
"О":"O","Л":"L","Д":"D","Ж":"ZH","Э":"E","ф":"f","ы":"i","в":"v","а":"a",
"п":"p","р":"r","о":"o","л":"l","д":"d","ж":"zh","э":"e","Я":"Ya","Ч":"CH",
"С":"S","М":"M","И":"I","Т":"T","Ь":"'","Б":"B","Ю":"YU","я":"ya","ч":"ch",
"с":"s","м":"m","и":"i","т":"t","ь":"'","б":"b","ю":"yu"};
function transliterate(word){
  return word.toString().split('').map(function (c) { 
    return a[c] || c; 
  }).join("");
}
app.endUndoGroup();

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