• Adobe After Effects

  Script to apply effect to text layer

  Posted by Miguel Ortiz on March 18, 2009 at 3:52 pm

  Is it possible to write a script to apply an effect to only text layers in a comp, and in any nested/pre-comps as well?

  I have a bunch of text layers in a number of comps that I want to apply an effect.

  Any ideas?

  Thanks!

  Miguel Ortiz replied 17 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Filip Vandueren

  March 19, 2009 at 3:58 am

  Alternatively, I’m sure there are some scripts floating around that will allow you to select all text layers in a comp at the same time, then just apply the effect.

  That could be handy if you have a few hundred layers with text-layers scattered inbetween them.

  Although you might be lucky if all those text layers have the same unqiue color-icon (wich they probably are by default), you can use the ‘select label group’ command, without any stinking scripts 😉
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  Miguel Ortiz

  March 19, 2009 at 5:00 pm

  Yeah, the reason I was thinking of a script was that I have hundreds of text layers in numerous comps and precomps. I was hoping maybe there was a way to select the master comp and run a script that would go through all the comps and apply an effect to just the text layers.

  Maybe it would take longer to write a script like that then to just apply a preset effect like Dave suggested or just copy and paste.

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