Look, this “restless” example was done manually, you can notice this because every line has the same behaviour and the amount of synchrony between actions. I thought you showed it as an example and not an exact copy. I’ve attached a project which reproduces the effect in exactly with just 3 steps.

I’ve set up a simple project for you. I think you can work your way from this file.
Let me know if you need more explained details about.

just click on “H” in the color picker window, the “B” is selected that’s why the view change.

probably not the best solution but for this example, you can use a workaround with the “refine hard matte” effect on the CC Particle World precomp. Set contrast above 60% and adjust the feather as you like. Use fill or tint to fix the possible glitches on alpha due to transparency inconsistencies.

if you have the same character files as your team and are sending open project updates one to another you can try a couple of things:

1 – if both teams use footage with the same names but different paths, when you replace the first file AE should be able to find others (as long names match)
2 – you can collect files instead of consolidating

3 – you…

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the first issue, select your text layer, open “properties” go to “more options” and change the “inter-character blending” to “overlay”

the second one, I would solve by duplicating the layer, using black and white colors on the text creating a Luma Matte layer to apply the style only on the stroke. But maybe there’s a better solution for that.

This is a text preset. in AE go to Animation > Browse Presets.
it’s going to open a folder on bridge.

Go to Presets / Text / Mechanical / insertText.ffx
Double click to apply it on your selected text layer

them experiment with alignment or invert keyframes

from there you just need to time well the objects on the scene.

if you don’t have bridge go…

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I’ve just tried using soft light and worked (red solid on top)