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Text stays the same with duplicate layers
I’m new to AE so bare with me, as I feel this is a pretty simple problem.
I’ve made a simple scrolling text animation in my project and want to have the ani. appear throughout the video 10 times, with 10 different strings of text. However, when I duplicate the text layer and try to edit the text of the copy, the text changes on both copies. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you in advance!
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I have no idea! Never happened to me before, but let me describe the steps I would go through to do this and see if you spot anything you’ve not done.
1 – select the text tool
2 – click in the comp panel and type the text
3 – hit V to get the selection tool back
4 – place the current time indicator to where I want the text to disappear and hit alt+] to trim it to that time.
5 – hit ctrl+D to duplicate the layer
6 – select the duplicate layer
7 – hit page down and then [ to move the in point of the duplicate to the frame after the end point of the original
8 – select the text tool again
9 – click on the duplicate text layer in the comp panel and change the text.And you’re done.
Simon Bonner
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