Creative COW | Joshua Williams | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/joshuawilliams2/activity/ Activity feed for Joshua Williams. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:49:45 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 d118c8e40486c8ee0c3cac94311eafe0 Joshua Williams replied to the discussion Expression to Change the words in part of a text layer? in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/expression-to-change-the-words-in-part-of-a-text-layer/#post-2468495 Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:45:45 +0000 Reply to Expression to Change the words in part of a text layer?

figured it out with this –

// Original text

var originalText = “© 2025 XYZ Corp. All Rights Reserved. YYY-ZZ-XXXXX“;

// Substring to replace

var substringToReplace = “YYY-ZZ-XXXXX“;

// Layer to Replace From

var otherLayer = thisComp.layer(“REPLACE TEXT”);

// New substring

var newSubstring = otherLayer.text.sourceText.value.substring(0, 50);

// Replace…

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]]> ddad67b14340b9a04d78439ff33a2aa6 Joshua Williams started the discussion Expression to Change the words in part of a text layer? in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/expression-to-change-the-words-in-part-of-a-text-layer/ Sat, 08 Mar 2025 17:38:23 +0000 Expression to Change the words in part of a text layer?

I’m creating a MOGRT for a graphic that has a bunch of copyright and legal copy on the bottom. I need to enable it so that editors can change just a portion of one of the lines

“© 2025 XYZ Corp. All Rights Reserved. YYY-ZZ-XXXXX”

I need the editors to be able to change the YYY-ZZ-XXXXX part. What I’ve been doing is just having two text… Read more

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