[Joel Friedline]

First off I love this effect. Brilliant combo.

I am setting up a project where I wanted to have a null with controls control the font colors, background colors, and shape colors throughout an entire project, but with this combination of effects I couldn’t link the font color the way I had it originally.

My workaround was to add a “Change to color” effect:

For the “from” Color, sample your text (which I had set to a nice bright green)
For the “To” color sample you can link it to your controller layer. For instance comp

(“Show Opener”).layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Main Font”)(“Color”)

After linking the color to your controller be sure to change the “change” dropdown to Hue, Lightness, and saturation.

I know most people probably have a more elegant solution, but I’m trying to create something with a lot of text and wanted to be able to do this effect a couple dozen times without having the change each font color individually in order to adjust.