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Free After Effects Script - convert Overlay Values Expression to Template Literals Expresison

Valorous Hero ,
Aug 21, 2025 Aug 21, 2025

There are users not familiar with the After Effects feature that allows you to drag a numeric property value in the timeline into the Composition Panel to display this value dynamically. The only issue with this feature is that it writes Expression that uses Javascript String Concatenation which is messy to edit and almost always leads to user error. 

So, I wrote a script that converts the Expression to one that uses Template Literals which uses Javascript String Interpolation which is more readable and a lot easier to edit so you can more easily apply text styling and paragraph alignment of your choice.




Download Link to the script and other Useful Links are below -  

https://www.broadcastgems.com/post/creating-dynamic-overlay-values-in-adobe-after-effects


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Adobe Employee ,
Aug 22, 2025 Aug 22, 2025

Thanks Roland for sharing the resource. 


Thanks,
Nishu

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Valorous Hero ,
Aug 23, 2025 Aug 23, 2025

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.  🙂

 

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Adobe Employee ,
Aug 25, 2025 Aug 25, 2025
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Project Turntable in After Effects will be game changing. I'll share your thoughts with the team.

Looking forward to seeing more of the resources.


Thanks,
Nishu

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