You can treat the AI Files as any other layer type in AE with and without its Collapse Transformations switch enabled. But there will be slight considerations to be made if said switch is enabled. Responsive features mostly require use of the sourceRectAtTime() Expression Method and they work with AI layers.  If you're keen on going from Zero to Hero with developing high-quality Responsive Motion Graphics, I have an Advanced After Effects course coming up soon - https://www.broadcastgems.com/post/advanced-after-effects-courses-coming-up-soon The URL will be updated (and grammar checked!) later this week.  And here are a few Adaptive & Responsive MoGraph samples - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTVytW_35OIHRy3iFmQfmzzu9Cwj-vfg_ And I post samples about once a week on my Twitter and LinkedIn Feeds.   ... View more

If you design systems, the more elegant and ideal way is to have a dedicated Text Styling Layer. Other Text Layers can then read from this Text Style Layer. So, All Styling is centralized and it's easy when someone else needs to come in or take over the AE project, to update the Text Syling for the same or different client.  Then, since this use-case requires identical Text Content, you will create a different set up, a Tokenized version or a separate Component, where the Text Style Layer also acts as the Text Content Area – name this layer differently from the earlier version since they are both viable components that can be scaled for different use-cases/clients. Then, for your animating Text Layers, depending on how complex they are, this can be set up as a single-layer solution or a two-layer solution – one for each of the Left/Right vesions.  If you're keen to learn more about designing Video Design Systems and grow a bigger brain to really take your MoGRT Development skills up multiple notches, come look me up on LinkedIn or Twitter. I often post on developing Video Design Systems and MoGRT Development is an integral part of my workflow. I will also be launching an Advanced After Effects course on developing highly intelligent and even automated workflows that involve a lot about Video Design Systems & MoGRTs.  ... View more

 @Volition74au  Thanks for sharing these. Do these delimiters in your code work with multi-lined texts including Point Text and Paragraph Text layers?  One thing I've struggled with is to get delimiters to work on multi-lined text and I was thinking perhaps the AE Team could provide an Expression function to handle this. ... View more

AE's competitors are doing a good job with their Text Tools.  While wishing for more features, I am also wishfully hopeful for a much, much quicker AE Text Tool. I think it will be a good idea if AE's Text Tool Engine can be speed-improved by 3-5x - even a 6-month long project to make this happen will be worth the while.  🙂 The Paragraph Alignment is a great help in helping us be both more efficient in our workflow as well as develop more performant solutions. I'd also like to see Expressions link to the Based On property. This is another area that requires multiple set ups in order to provide user-expected features.  On the new Text Expressions, Word, Line and even Paragraph & ALL Ranges will be great and I am actually assuming these are in the works.    ... View more

I think there's a typo here -  Using the string: “Change the fonts of some words” apply the following to the Source Text     text.sourceText.style .setFont("Montserrat-Light") .setFont("Gigantic", 0, 6).setFont("Gigantic", 10, 6).setFont("Gigantic", 20) ------------------------  ... View more

Excellent work on the API PDF.  I'm trying to think how the Range Definition can be made dynamic, to cater to dynamic Text Inputs?  I was hoping Text/Font Styling would go into the Text Animator Section where it's more feasible to code for such cases plus more users are familiar with Text Animators than Expressions. Is this still feasible; something for the near future?  Great to finally have Paragraph Justification and it will work well in text.sourceText. Thank You!  🙂 ... View more

For different colored text to a range of Text Objects, this should be easy with Text Animators. For italics, the Skew Text Animator does a very good faux italics. For Bold, adding Stroke Width, again, via a Text Animator Property, is a viable option. Scaling up is also viable but Scaling down produces insurmountable kerning issues in my experience.   ... View more

@Douglas_Waterfall  For adding a Typeface and its Related Fonts, I was thinking of combining the existing Font UI which is invoked within text.sourceText with the Add Text Animator Flyout Menu.  So, the Text Animator Flyout Menu will include a separate section (for non-3D layers, we currently have 6 sections), for a 7th section. This new item in the Flyout Menu will be identical to the existing Font Menu we now use in text.sourceText. On its use, if there is no Font Animator application via a Text Animator, then all text characters default to chosen values via the Character Panel.  When a Font Animator Property is applied to a Text Animator Group, the user selects one font for one or more Selectors. User then uses at least one Selector to apply this Font Animator Property onto. Expected behavior will be for Selected Objects to be displayed as per the Font Animator Property and Unselected Objects to display as per Character Panel options. My thoughts are such a workflow will be easier for users to implement since the process of adding Text Animator Groups and Properties are common knowledge/practice. I'd also not want to have lots of additional code to use in text.sourceText which for me is already 'crowded' in lots of use-cases and which I assume to be an alternative to the aformentioned Text Animator Property option. For Paragraph Alignment, text.sourceText will be a good spot; assuming it'll only require 1 or 2 lines of code at most and I assume most users will have no issues using such code there.  Hope this helps.  Bestest - RolandK    ... View more

IMO, an elegant and functional way for multifont use is to add a Font Text Animator Property. We can then use Range/Expression/Wiggly selectors to apply multiple fonts. IOW, please don't make it a text.sourceText thingy. Also, Expressionable Paragraph Alignement will be take off a huge burden off performance issues. It's a PITA and a performance hit each time.   ... View more

The Add Keyframe Command has been there since Day 1 when they released the Keyboard Visualizer Feature. But for me, it stopped working for the past few releases. My Custom Keyboard Shortcut for Add Keyframe was Shift+K.  And I just checked and there seems to be a bug that causes the Command's Name to change, depending on which property you last selected - needs more testing but this was the behavior I got. Have you had issues with using ALT+E to create an initial Keyframe as well as second and subsequent keyframes?  ... View more

Clearing cache helps. Starting Previews after placing the Time Indicator at Time=0 helps. Rendering from AME helps. However, the issue still occurs intermittently.  ... View more

@nishu_kush   It was only a few short weeks ago when I wrote on this issue, on Twitter. You replied and suggested I post in the Bug section here.  How is it that you now say "Haven't seen this issue"? This user has the EXACT same issue I reported. And after you suggested I post on the forum, neither you nor anyone else has replied.  Other than disappearing, you now claim to not having seen/read/heard of this issue. Why??? ... View more

Hi Nishu, the Quivering occurs after I make a change in the Comp and run a Preview. And it could be any change; text edit, property value - anything. This is why I believe this is cache related. PLUS, after purging cache, sometimes, the issue goes away. ... View more

Hi folks, is there any info, workarounds etc on this issue. It's really bad and quite impossible to work cos every preview just shakes so much I can't tell how things are moving. ... View more

Thanks Nishu - good move!  🙂 The Ideas bag is a much better place. I'd also like to add that current constructs are very much akin to an Alpha Version. So, I'm looking forward to some much-needed QOL. Best Wishes! ... View more

With the Text Tool selected and right-click while hovering over any part of a Text Layer and right-clicking to bring up the Context Menu is an updated QOL (Quality of Life) feature that was added since the previous posts was made. Prior to this addition, a user had to be very specific/accurate, to click exactly on one of the Text Layer's Source Rectangle's miniboxes for the Context Menu click to work.  ... View more

The issue is two-fold -  1) Majority of users do not understand how Adjustment Layers work. An Adjustment Layer works by encapsulating or compositing ALL layers below the Adjustment Layer. THEN, any effect(s) applied to the Adjustment Layer is applied to THIS SINGLE COMPOSITE.  So, effects applied to an Adjustment Layer ARE NOT applied to each layer below the Adjustment Layer. Keeping this in mind, a large majority of the comments here are irrelevant.  Secondly, I feel the application of the Adjustment Layer MAY have been better if it was an Effect OR a Timeline Effect, much like Parenting. With either of these two options, it would have been much easier, I THINK, to specify contiguous layers to be affected by an Adjustment Layer. So, current constructs where a Layer is used to define an Adjustment Layer delimits its utility.  Perhaps we may yet have an Adjustment Effect (with Pick Whips/Layer Parameters) OR an Adjustment Comp Effect (much like Parenting/TrackMatte).   ... View more

What's the latest on Responsive Design Time for AeMoGRTs in PPro?  Is there a known issue or more likely user error?  ... View more

Thanks Dacia - I knew, given some time, you'd agree.   😄 OH! While looking at this, perhaps there's a chance to also look into exporting Ae Markers, as part of the AeMoGRT. I'm still not convinced working with the Responsive Design Time feature.  😞  So, Markers are a sufficient workaround. And our last exchange, I brought up the matter of Iteractive Preview Caching for AeMoGRTs in PPro. I double+triple checked and this is a feature. After more digging, I THINK there is an internal limit at play. Specifically. if an AeMoGRT is compute-heavy and crosses a threshold, Iteractive Preview Caching doesn't happen. I feel that a good test will involve three levels of compute-heavy AeMoGRTs will form a good basis for testing. So, basic, intermediate and heavy in terms of computation requirements.  And thanks for the reply.  ... View more

Thanks for the reply.  My expectation is that a fresh drag+drop, from the EGP onto a timeline should be fresh - no Markers, regardless of where/which timeline is the destination. If I ALT+Drag to create an instance/copy then I can understand the persistance of the Marker but not a fresh copy; which is the entire premise of drag a fresh copy from the EGP-Browser. ... View more

Thanks for the reply and looking into this. In the video below, the Quivering Issue starts at about 6:05 - look at the last letter "T"; last line. This appears mostly on Text and Shape Layers - more so with Text Layers. It occurs across quite a few projects. And rendering from AME lessens its occurence - so hopefully this a good clue/idea.      ... View more

I believe the Dead Link covers the use of the Reset Duration or even perhaps the Reset All Parameters feature found within the Graphics & Titles Menu in PPro.  I've actually stopped using RDT for years because it leads to awkward situations, like what you seem to be encountering.  My manual but robust solution is to cut the AeMoGRT in PPro's Timeline, and then use the Frame Hold Feature if I need the AeMoGRT for a longer duration or cut off the middle (pause) section if I need to shorten it. It's manual work but precludes having to troubleshoot and/or face much longer production time fiddling about with an issue. HTH ... View more

After a little more thinking, I think my ideas/thoughts are too entrnched in my own workflow which I doubt will do well for the majority of users AND I'm assured and better rested seeing what you guys come up with.  ... View more

@douglas, I have something that's Expression Driven that might be useful to look at in terms of workflow as well as UI. Let me know if you'd like to take a look.   ... View more