Thanks for reporting back. Enjoy the ride ahead.  🙂 ... View more

There's a pre-installed Animation Preset for this - 2D Text Box (Shape).  ... View more

That looks odd. Have you tried closing and re-opening the panel - changing the drop menu selection between Selection/Composition ? And what about changing to another Workspace? ... View more

The image you provided shows you have 2 layers selected. However, you need a minimum of 3 selected layers for the Distribute option to be enabled. HTH ... View more

You're most welcome. And I wanted to share this URL in my previous post but forgot about it as I was multi-multitasking. Here it is - https://ae-expressions.docsforadobe.dev/text/style/#textstylesetjustification BTW, your original post was also about performance - has there been any improvement in this area? HTH ... View more

This video may help with the different view axes modes -  ... View more

After Effects uses two types of calculations - Euler for Rotation and Quarternion for Orientation. Google these and you should have a better idea of what's happening under-the-hood. Also, as a general rule of thumb, use Orientation to set poses (largely because it doesn't go beyond 360 degrees on an axis) and Rotation for animation. HTH ... View more

You'll want to get the style from a specific text layer to ensure you're getting the correct style. In other words - do not rely on the Essential Graphics Panel to store your text styles.  There is a 'systems approach to this' but since you've already started, simply use an expression line to get the text styling from a specific layer and it's best to declare a new value for setJustification().  So, perhaps something like this may work but take note the expression below does not perform a get text styling procedure but it does make use of expression caching to help speed up the Expression and it's got a setJustification() code snippet. // Cache control values var controls = thisComp.layer("CONTROLS"); var colNum = Math.round(controls.effect("HouseDetailsColumnNumber")("Slider").value); var startRow = Math.round(controls.effect("HouseDetailsRowNumber")("Slider").value); var justifyValue = Math.round(controls.effect("JustificationControl")("Slider").value); // Build column string var colString = "Column" + colNum; // Access CSV data layer var csvLayer = comp("myCSVComp").layer("myCSVDataLayer")("Data")("Outline")(colString); // Define row offsets (+9 to +12) var rowOffsets = [9, 10, 11, 12]; var details = []; // Collect non-empty details for (var i = 0; i < rowOffsets.length; i++) { var row = startRow + rowOffsets[i]; var detail = csvLayer(row); if (detail && detail !== "") { details.push(detail.trim()); } } // Get current text style var style = text.sourceText.style; // Map slider to justification values var justifications = ["alignLeft", "alignCenter", "alignRight", "alignJustified"]; var selectedJustification = justifications[justifyValue] || "alignLeft"; // Set text content and justification style.setText(details.join("\r")).setJustification(selectedJustification);   ... View more

Looks like you missed the addProperty -  var offset = dashes.property("ADBE Vector Stroke Offset"); var offset = dashes.addProperty("ADBE Vector Stroke Offset");  ... View more

Here's a good tutorial on using the Speed Graph Editor -  Unfortunately, it doesn't go in-depth nor cover different property types but it provides a decent beginner's foundation. And this Youtube Channel has some good Creative Uses of After Effects. ... View more

That's the VALUE Graph Editor. If it was a Speed Graph, you would see the px/sec suffix for the numbers in the Vertical Axis. As a general rule, if you're not creating character animations or complex animations, it's best to use the Speed Graph as they SHOULD BE more easily understood and controlled for Motion Design type of work - essentially moving/animating from Point/Value A to Point/Value B.  HTH   ... View more

At 3:00 of this very strange video -  "Animation is all about tricking you into thinking things are moving that are actually not moving." This is must be part of a comedy routine or perhaps there's a joke somewhere that I missed.  And a little further into the video, I hear the Speed Graph is supposed to be a legacy graph editor. Where do these tutorializers get their info from? It's like I stepped into a different world - some strange black/time-warped hole.  Why don't people actually learn before putting out training for sale??? I keep saying this - if you've never taught professionals in a LIVE classroom for at least 2 years, you've never be a good trainer because you won't know the errors you made nor how to better explain things or to provide better examples. It's only in a LIVE session do you actually get immediate response. And one must also teach at least intermediate level trainees so you learn quickly not to TALK BS while explaining things cos you'll get caught very quickly and very easily too.  I tried looking for After Effects training by Chris and Trish Meyer but they're only on LinkedIn but it's certainly worth it. Most of us who learned After Effects as part of its first generation of users learned from The Meyers and Brian Maffit and they provided excellent foundations. Youtube tutorials and their like are almost unanimously poor when it comes to technical areas of the software. The vast majority are not bad but cover too little. Youtube tutorials and their like are very good for creative use of After Effects and you can get an endless stream of very good content but for most of these, when technical areas are covered, their usually very lacking.  I'd pay a bit of money to get my hands onto training material by the Meyer's if you're serious about getting a solid foundation in After Effects.   ... View more

You'll want to add .value for drop menu expressions -  effect("bGEMs DropMenu")(1).value You will also want to do the same for checkboxes and quite often, for sourceText if you are going to perform string manipulation with its result and when accessing CSV/JSON data. HTH ... View more

The built-in Align & Distribute tool doesn't provide a fixed gap setting nor will it work if your layers are sized differently. I'm also not familiar of a third part tool that provides such a solution but I will be surprised if there isn't at least one out there now. I am actually about to complete a set of 20+ scripts and one of it does allow for a fixed gap set between layers and they can be sized differently, are child layers and theit Anchor Point can also be anywhere you choose. Below is a screen capture showing its UI and how I set it up with different sizex text characters and Anchor Points and a Fixed Gap setting. If you want to test it, drop me a DM and we can continue from there. As for ChatGPT and other LLMs, they generally do a decent job and results vary and largely based on your prompt. The script I shared was the result of me and a couple of LLMs. They're largely productivity tools that can code but it's not an After Effects expert although it may seem so, at times. From the first line -  - Create each shape in its own shape layer, with anchor points centered. I know it's not going to provide a good response because this is a common user-error, thinking that the position of the Anchor Point relative to the layer is a critical requirement to achieve the desired result. Then again, I've not seen your prompt. So, the issue could be a poor quality prompt leading to the response you received.  HTH ... View more

I know your post is Feature Request. I also know this - even if your request gets built, it will take quite some time for it to get built, tested and then provided to the public. There are quite a few ifs. I also know there are After Effects users who may bee keen to explore writing their own Script Launcher using LLMs and after using After Effects for over 25 years+ , there are 3rd party scripts that can provide pretty good solutions, based on your needs.  So, you may wait for a native solution that may or may not arrive, or you can explore existing solutions.  Lastly, when you post online, others can read and reply and replies do not neccessarily put you on a pedestal but they may be placed/posted, in kind, so others can benefit.    ... View more

This process can be automated relatively easily - I THINK. It depends on the structure of your text layer(s). If you share more details including your timeline and composition screen captures ... ... View more

You're welcome Nishu and I should have about 5 more that I'll be sharing once I get my Suite of Scripts released.  BTW, it'll be great if you can get in touch with the Illustrator Team to see how we can get their Project Turntable feature into AE.  🙂   ... View more

You may want to look at a script launcher like this - all the scripts are accessible as buttons on the left margin. Clicking on a button displays its UI on the right of the left margin. HTH   ... View more

Take a look at this script - it allows for advanced and intelligent keyframe set ups across lots of layers and keyframes and doesn't require selecting keyframes while still being able to make adjustments to specific keyframe indices.  The Duplicator Script is about to be completed too.  🙂 https://youtu.be/EMSD7b-Q8ls ... View more

Meanwhile ... If you've set up tracking to stop when Confidence is below, say ... 90%. Then continuing the track on a per frame basis works well. The trick is that you only need to do per frame tracking for about 3 frames. You can then continue tracking multiple frames by clicking on the Analyze Forward button.  HTH ... View more

Here's some info on writing performant Expressions. https://www.broadcastgems.com/post/how-to-write-performant-expressions-in-adobe-after-effects-developing-intelligent-bespoke-motion And it's not possible to assist you if you don't provide all/any relevant details on your Text Styling issues and the code block you're using. ... View more

You're mixing up frame sizes and frame rates - either of these will cause issues when compositing the tracked data onto your backplate.  ... View more

It works well. It's one of the best AE plugins - it's Node-based too which works well as an Effect. And instead of magnet, look at Attract - this is the usual terminology used in particle systems. HTH ... View more

You're welcome Jamie.  Have a good one! ... View more

I've got 3 soon-to-be-released scripts that should help AE users quite a fait bit. This sequence took about 40 minutes to set up and offers lots of options.  We're looking at 3 scripts to set this up -  Keyframe Orchestrator Layer Grouper bGEMs Distributor - flares are from Video Copilot's Optical Flares. Not as quick as Cavalry for previews but they're a lot quicker to set up IMO. The main bottleneck seems to be AE's timeline architecture especially moving and time stretching keyframes.What's cool is the ability to orchestrate lots of keyframes in a powerful and intuitive way.   ... View more