[Walter Soyka]

Apologies, I don’t understand the question. Can you maybe post a screenshot that shows what you’re trying to do?

[Walter Soyka]

What is your project’s working color space?

Look in Project Settings > Color.

RGB brand colors usually assume sRGB, but if you’re working in a different color space (like Rec. 709 for example), the RGB numbers that represent the same color will be different.

[Walter Soyka]

Instead of thinking of it as a glow effect that is driven by the shape/line animation, think about it as a separate blurred shape animation that occurs in a matted-off area defined by the main shape/line animation.

[Walter Soyka]

You can roll this into to effects preset, or copy and paste it. It takes a moment to set up the first time, but I think it’ll be much faster to maintain than bouncing around among precomps…

[Walter Soyka]

Layer styles are applied last in Ae’s render order (after masks, effects, and transformations, when native motion blur is rendered), so you won’t get the result you’re looking for from a layer style without precomping.

If you can’t use the native text stroke, you could avoid precomping by rolling your own Stroke effect, because effects are rendered before transforms. Stack up these built-in effects:

1. Minimax (to expand the layer’s boundaries, set to ‘Maximum’ and ‘Alpha and Color’)
2. Fill (to fill in the entire text area, set the color you want the stroke to be)
3. CC Composite (set to ‘In front,’ to comp the original layer source back on top of the expanded and filled text)

[Walter Soyka]

Screen shots of your UI and the renders might help us understand what you’re seeing. One of the first things that I’d check is that your comp viewer is set to “Active Camera” if you’re using 3D layers. It’s easy to accidentally set it to a different view, but Ae always renders the camera’s perspective.

[Walter Soyka]

You can also press the “Toggle Switches / Modes” button visible in your screenshot, or press the F4 hotkey.

[Walter Soyka]

You can use the “Responsive Design – Time” feature in After Effects:

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/responsive-design.html

[Walter Soyka]

Backslashes are escape characters in Javascript strings, so you need to treat them specially. Put two backslashes in your code anyplace where you want a single backslash to appear in your output file.

[Walter Soyka]

You’ll need to write out a text file with some kind of standard markup, like HTML or maybe RTF. Then it’ll be up to the app that opens the file to interpret the links.

HTML is pretty easy to write. Here’s a primer:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduction_to_HTML