[Craig Trayler]

Hey John, thanks for the suggestion!

I just gave that a try using both \n and \r and \\n and \\r, and before creating the marker, but sadly it still doesn’t work in AE 2025. The line breaks just get flattened into a space, and the comment shows up as one long line, even in the popup or when read through expressions.

Seems like AE 2025 is stripping those characters now, which wasn’t the case in 2024.

Appreciate the help though. If you find anything else that might work, I’m all ears!

[Craig Trayler]

Yeah very odd.
On deeper looks, it may be that it is some issue with using OS Ventura. Maybe some kind of read and write issue where it is not storing the info from the last time I closed it… So far all adobe apps have access on all parts as far as I can see.

[Craig Trayler]

Hi, I like Grahams explanation, but with it also including transparency on the layer prior to it changing I think from what I can see, I would suggest this is how it was done, and a bit more simple way.
1) Create the text your want the end result to look like with words coloured as needed. The demo also shows a drop shadow, so add that as well if needed.

2) Duplicate the text layer (you could also link up the source text to the original, so if you wanted to change the text later on it will update on the duplicate). With the duplicate, place that below the original, and remove the Drop shadow (this is based off the YT sample shown) And add a fill effect to the text layer and pick white/light grey, and reduce the transparency to what you want.

3) Back to the original text layer, Hit Animate (>) right of text, and select Fill Colour> Opacity.
Now open the new Animator 1 > Range Selector. Open up Advanced, an change Units to Index, Change Based on to Words, and turn Mode to Subtract.
Now all you need to do is animate the Start from 0 to whatever number word you want.

I think that is everything. You could also parent the Duplicate to the original and lock the layer so you never have to interact with it, other than maybe adding in an fade in at the start.

[Craig Trayler]

Wow very sorry I only just seen this reply.
Sadly that does not work as all layers shift left/right together.
If you have had success your end, I would love to see a demo of how you did it.

[Craig Trayler]

Hi Dan or anyone who can assist a little more.
Everything is great, but wanted to know if there is also a way to add duration of each created marker to extend it’s length until the next following text source keyframe?

I would venture a guess that there needs to be an If function to check if there is a next keyframe to counter an error for the very last keyframe.

Thanks in advance,
Craig

[Craig Trayler]

Hi Ann,
How can you say “you won’t find the answer because the kbsc does not exist.” when that is the answer.. My question was to confirm if there was or was not a keyboard shortcut for what I wanted, and I can now after researching elsewhere see there is not, and no coding way around it also sadly.
My reference was that instead of getting a clear answer yes or no answer, I was given a link to a select amount of keyboard shortcuts.
For comparison, if I was asking if anyone knew if there has ever been a world record created for longest distance a apple was chucked, and I was just sent to Guinness world records top 100 records, that would not be very helpful unless it was in the top 100 listings.

[Craig Trayler]

Hi Chris, thanks for the link, I read that a while ago and is a nice read, but does not provide the answer I need, it’s just an article of an editors top 24 keyboard shortcuts that does not contain a resolve to my question.

[Craig Trayler]

Fantastic, thank you again Dan.

[Craig Trayler]

Thank you Dan! Your works are just great. This worked perfectly.
One more thing if I may, I have only just noticed some Source text keyframes were purposely made empty/Blank/containing not text, is there a line of code you can add to check that if the Keyframe is empty, to ignore making a marker and move onto the next one?

[Craig Trayler]

Thank you again Filip, code works beautifully and I added some sliders for the padding and rounding. Also that link is a really nice read so far, thanks for that.
This opens many new doors for me. 🙏 – Craig