Creative Communities of the World Forums

The peer to peer support community for media production professionals.

Activity Forums Adobe After Effects Adding Source Name to a layer as text

  • John Cuevas

    January 3, 2013 at 2:29 am

    Not possible, sorry.

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
    —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

  • Paul Roper

    January 3, 2013 at 2:10 pm

    I assume you’ve figured out that if you DO add a text layer, you could just add the expression:
    thisComp.layer(index+1).name
    to a text layer’s ‘Source Text’ if that text layer is directly above the “source name layer” to display the layer name.

    – Paul

We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.
Our Privacy policy | GDPR Policy