AE Captions as Fast as CapCut – No Plugins

Stop wasting hours clicking through nested compositions and manually syncing text. In this tutorial, I’m showing you how to build a dynamic, automated caption engine in After Effects using a single CSV file and a few powerful expressions. We’re skipping the expensive plugins and the “Dynamic Link” mess to give you a workflow that is faster than CapCut but has the professional control of After Effects. In this video, you’ll learn:

How to export perfectly timed CSVs from Premiere Pro.

The “Timecode-to-Seconds” expression for AE.

Using Expression Selectors in the Text animator.

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