Creating text layers from external script in After Effects scripting
A new addition to David Torno’s After Effects Extend Script training will build a full and working script that will open a tab-delimited text file and import that into After Effects as text layers.
We will be building a series of functions to do each of our tasks in this script
Building a simple lower-third graphic with a person’s name and job title, David shows how to create functions for each part of the tasks that need to happen with the script, creating separate functions that will read the text document, create comps in AE, parse out the data, and create customized text layers that will have designated properties over font type, color, and size.
Check out the two-part After Effects ExtendScript tutorial for Creating a Script That Will Build Text Layers from an External Text File here.
