Looking for More Dynamic control over LTTs (Live Text Templates)
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Looking for ways to get more articulate and dynamic control over Live Text Templates.
Here would be some examples of what we're looking for:
- Allow AE-like Expressions in LTT field entries (see attached jpg for reference)
- Ability for those Expressions to reference context-sensitive properties, like the LTT name, the Sequence name, the PPro Project Name
- Ability to programmatically fill Live Text Template from JSX
My guess is these are all feature requests, but perhaps there is functionality under the hood that I'm not aware of.
Real world use for the above:
We're currently working with a client using the following workflow:
- They begin with a template sequence, from which they are making few hundred customized sequences.
- Each customized sequence is named based on a unique number referencing an online database.
- Each sequence contains a text element, whose entry is based on text from the online database, referenced via the unique number.
e.g.: A sequence named "5002", which references database entry for 5002 says the entry is "For more, go to our website at www.whateverURL.com".
So what we're looking for is a scenario in which simply naming sequence automatically determines the content of the text element in that sequence.
We can already do this for AE Comps with great sophistication.
But on the LTT side things get more cumbersome.
We can accomplish above same by filling in an LTT field with the reference number. This works fine.
But the ability to generate dynamic text by referencing Sequence Name, or the LTT Instance Name, or even the PPro Project Name would would trim hundreds of ours off of the overall workflow.
Sample PPRo-side LTT field entries...
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