Text At Marker

Trigger custom text animation at layer markers with full control over how many and which words, characters, or lines are animated at each marker.

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Description


"Perfect for kinetic typography, animating to music and matching voiceovers."


Highlight Features

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Built for Motion Designers who want control without the hassle.

Graph Editor

  • Forget complex range selectors – animate the intuitive way: with keyframes. Customize your easing or add your favorite expressions like overshoot and bounce for full creative control.
  • Use "Delay" or "Layer Markers" to trigger your custom animation at each word, character or line.


Text At Marker does the hard work so you don’t have to.

  • Animate in groups by adding a number to your marker.
  • Directions: Default, Reversed, Outwards, Inwards, Random, User Defined (Define order via layer name: 2,3,1,4,5)
  • Fine-tune marker behavior with options to ignore markers, react only to those starting with a specific letter, and offset animation timing for perfect sync with music and voiceover.
  • Stack multiple effects, tweak keyframes and easing for each, and craft your custom text animation.

UI


Text Directions

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Marker Utilities
(new since v1.2)

A complete toolset for batch manipulation of layer and composition markers:

  • Select layers for layer markers.
  • No selection for composition markers.
  • Only markers within the work area are affected.

Marker Utilities


Learn how to use Text At Marker


Free Trial

Experience Text At Marker for free before making a purchase. The trial version has the following limitations:

  • Valid for 10 days.
  • Only one effect instance is allowed per layer.


Installation

  • Requirements:
    • After Effects CC 2020 and newer.
    • Expressions Engine must be set to JavaScript: Project Settings > Expressions > Expressions Engine > JavaScript
  • The easiest way to install and license "Text At Marker", is by using the aescripts + aeplugins manager app.
  • To install a trial you can select 'Add Trial' from the 'Account' menu.
  • To install "Text At Marker" manually, copy the file "Text At Marker.jsxbin" into your “ScriptUI Panels” folder within your After Effects directory:
    • WINDOWS: Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects (Version)\Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels
    • MAC: Applications/Adobe After Effects (Version)/Scripts/ScriptUI Panels
  • Restart After Effects and run "Text At Marker" by going to Window > Text At Marker.

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Version History

1.3.2 -

Nov 10, 2025

Updated licensing framework.

1.3.1 -

May 14, 2025

- Embedded the .ffx preset directly into the .jsxbin file for a smoother, single-file installation process.

1.3.0 -

May 12, 2025

- Added two new text directions: Outwards and Inwards.

- Added "Stop At Last Marker" checkbox: stops remaining words from animating after the last marker.

- Update: Selecting unrelated properties no longer prevents effects from being deleted.

- Improved error messaging for unsuccessful Text At Marker installation.

1.2.0 -

May 5, 2025

- New: Complete toolset for batch manipulation of layer and composition markers — including creation, renaming, moving, removal, and spreading.

- Update: Toggling the visibility of an effect instance now also toggles the linked text animators accordingly.

- Fix: If the text layer is used as a matte for another layer, the link no longer gets disconnected when applying Text At Marker.

1.1.0 -

Apr 28, 2025

- Performance Boost: Significantly faster performance when working with layer markers.

- Fix: Effects that were renamed can now be removed properly.

- Update: Consistent randomness across layers and effects when using the same random seed — ideal for building complex, timing-dependent animations.

At higher counts of characters, words, or lines, a faster algorithm takes over — beyond 50, consistency across layers and effects is not maintained, and beyond 100, delay becomes variable.

- Update: When "Marker Starts With" is set to a specific value and no matching marker is found, the animation won't trigger.

- Update: Minor wording changes in the help text.

1.0.0 -

Apr 24, 2025

Initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

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