How to apply various formatting to text imported via CSV file?

Question

Hi all, I have an After Effects project that I created to simplify and automate a weekly animation for my team that will automatically scale/place an image, and import text from a CSV file using expressions.

Everything works. However, occasionally, the CSV text will require a couple of words to be italicized. As far as I'm aware, there isn't a way to apply any sort of formating to the text in the CSV file. And I don't see any obvious way to isolate specific words for italics using expressions either.

Do any of you experts have some insight on a possible way to do this?

ShiveringCactus · Answer

The simplest way I can think of is to use a Text animator to create faux italics which will allow you to easily use two sliders to set when the italic is appliedand when it stops.

If you want to do it with expressions, I made this video recently showing how to use the new per character stlying expressions:

https://youtu.be/SpuYYGSbM7E

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