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Compatibility After Effects Please check exact version compatibility under the "COMPATIBILITY" tab below
Author: nab

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CloseBreaks up text into separate layers.
Based on user feedback v3 now has 2 modes:
- Keep original position using expressions (new layers have the same text as the original layer with some elements hidden)
- Approximated position without expressions (new layers are 1 char/word/line long)
Each mode has 3 choices:
- Split into characters
- Split into words
- Split into lines
After completion you will have a layer for each character/word/line.
Demo
After Effects | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6 |
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3.1 (Current version) - Feb 15, 2023
3.0 - Oct 15, 2021
- 3.0 - Aug 2013
- 2 modes: keep original position using expressions (new layers have the same text as the original layer with some elements hidden), approximated position without expressions (new layers are 1 char/word/line long)
- small bugfix in the decomposition
- throw alert when paragraph text is detected (not supported)
- rewrite Help/About box
- AE CC compatibility
- 2.5 - Added CS6 Compatibility - Dec 2012
- 2.4 - New UI, 3 choices, initial position preserved - July 2012
- 2.3 - Fixed foreign language compatibility with CS5.5 - Nov 2011
- 2.2 - Minor bug fixed, added CS5 compatibility (Aug 2010)
- 2.1 - Added separate into words and separate into lines option by Lloyd Alvarez (21 Jan 2010)
- 2.0 - Initial Release on aescripts.com (05 June 2009)
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