QUICK TIP: Comp Name to Text Layers in After Effects

In this After Effects tutorial, I'll show you how to link up your text layers with compositions. This is a handy trick you can use for creating templates that involve a lot of copy changes that might be included in your file names. I use it in my day to day workflow.

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EXPRESSION USED (you can replace "this comp" with a link to the desired composition:

txt[1]

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RECORDING EQUIPMENT:

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[stellachong]

Woww, this is amazing way ! I've being learning AE for so many years, and i'm still learning Thank you for

[JackRyanMurphy]

That’s pretty cool. Never knew you could do that.

[tubelator]

Change it to:

Name = thisComp.name;
txt = Name.split("_")


txt[1]

so it takes the name of the comp you are in. You dont need to relink and you can just duplicate comps and itkeeps working.