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Clone perfectly a text layer with another one using expression
For some reason, I don’t wan’t to precompose a text layer and then use it in a bunch of other comps. This is the other way round.
The idea, is that I have to link a text layer to another so that it is exactly the same : all attributes, must be the same.
The main reason, is that I have a final composition with lot’s of elements such as sliders, color picker (…) : these choices affects a bunch of layers that are visible in this “big” final composition. So I don’t want to open a precomp with a text bloc : it has to be as simple as this. I have tried many expressions, but most of these are based upon a specific character in the source bloc.
Thanks a lot for the help, if that is possible of course.
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It won’t work if you have multiple, per-character, styles defined in your master text layer (multiple fonts, for example). If not, something like this source text expression should work:
txt = comp("Main").layer("Master Text").text.sourceText;
txt.style.setText(txt) -
Hello Dan and thanks for your answer. I was afraid that it was impossible. I really need to have the same text bloc including any change on a per-character basis. I saw somewhere that I could point at one character, but nothing about the entire content.
Would it be possible to create a loop for the number of characters in a bloc ? I know it might slow down AEFX, or maybe limit the expression calculation to 1 frame ?
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