In this video, follow along with the Mograph Mindset team as they interview John Colombo, Senior Quality Engineer on the Adobe After Effects team. John walks through his text style preset and explains how the full expression works. This is a deep dive into expressions, coding best practices, performance optimization, new features, and the future of After Effects.

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Full interview with John Colombo, Senior Quality Engineer on the Adobe After Effects team. John walks through his text style preset and explains how the full expression works. This is a deep dive into expressions, coding best practices, performance optimization, new features, and the future of After Effects.

Download the Text Style Expression preset on Gumroad: https://kylasaurusrex.gumroad.com/l/t...

Watch the Text Style Expressions Tutorial:    • Text Style Expressions in After Effec...  

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See more of Kyle's work at:

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Adobe Forums: setJustification()

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-...

Adobe Forums: setStyleAt()

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-...

AE Text Style Expression Documentation

https://ae-expressions.docsforadobe.d...

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Captioneer extension for Premiere Pro

https://aescripts.com/captioneer/

Free Plugins for After Effects

https://www.mogrts.nyc/tools

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

00:00 - Intro

00:32 - What does John do at Adobe?

05:37 - John’s Text Style Preset

13:20 - Expression Optimization

15:10 - Style Expressions vs. Text Animators

20:08 - Avoid Loops

21:17 - posterizeTime(0)

24:43 - After Effects Presets

26:42 - Our Feature Requests

29:32 - Adobe Community Forums

31:18 - Nic’s Feature Request

33:14 - AE as an RPG

34:26 - Future of Text Style Expressions

35:05 - Outro

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