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  • Linking text to a layer

    Posted by Eric Hartmann on November 22, 2010 at 10:52 pm

    I can’t seem to get this to work, even though it seems to be incredibly easy….

    I’m working with about 30 layers of a font and want the text to the be linked to one layer, so all I have to do is change one layer and the others follow (I thought I’d need the pick whip to select the layer). I can’t seem to get the right expression to work.

    AE CS5

    Thank you all!

    Eric Hartmann replied 15 years, 5 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  • Eric Hartmann

    November 22, 2010 at 10:56 pm

    Nevermind…figured it out. Had to simply pick whip the layer’s “source text”…not the file name.

    thisComp.layer("LAYER NAME").text.sourceText

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