So the goal would be to achieve this without having to render anything. Here's what I'm trying to do. Maybe you can point me in the right direction... I've got a graphics & text template I want to use in AE. (I'm testing Live Text Templates, but I'm open to any solution). I've also got an external data source, e.g. a list of Names and IDs. The graphics template is constantly being revised per change notes by network execs and producers. The data is constantly changing as we discover typos and make ID changes. The traditional way of handling this is to walk into the edit bay, stop the editor from editing, and make the latest round of text changes. We could use an AE panel, per your suggestion above, to generate and update a bunch of Comps (or render a bunch of MOV files) being used in a Premiere timeline. The problem with that workflow becomes apparent when you want to make a design change. Ideally you make one design change that ripples across all the Comps, but if you generated multiple Comps, one for each name, that becomes cumbersome. (And if you're rendering a bunch of MOVs, you have to constantly re-render) Alternatively there's the Live Text Templates approach: One Comp from AE, multiple instances of that Comp in Premiere, each modified by filling in the Text Fields on the Premiere side. Now, a single design change in AE automatically iterates out through all the instances in Premiere. Great! BUT any Name/ID changes in the external data source have to be manually entered into the appropriate Live Text Template instance in Premiere, so you're back to stopping the editor to make those changes. So right now you either get design change automation but manual text updating, or automated text updating but a cumbersome batch of design changes. Automating the field entries of Live Text Templates would resolve the problem -- a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too solution.
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