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Installation

1. Allow scripts to write files

Textevo saves its settings and presets on your computer, After Effects has to allow it:

  • After Effects 2020 and later: Edit > Preferences > Scripting & Expressions
  • Older versions: Edit > Preferences > General

and check Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network.

On macOS, the Preferences are in the After Effects menu.

2. Install the panel

In After Effects: File > Scripts > Install ScriptUI Panel... and select Textevo.jsx.

Or copy Textevo.jsx to the ScriptUI Panels folder of After Effects:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects <version>\Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels\

/Applications/Adobe After Effects <version>/Scripts/ScriptUI Panels/

3. Restart After Effects

Open the panel from the Window menu > Textevo.jsx, and dock it where you like: the panel adapts to a vertical or horizontal layout.

First launch

Textevo asks for a folder where it saves its settings and presets. If you cancel, your Documents folder is used. You can change it later in the settings.

Updating from an older version

  • Install Textevo.jsx as above. If the older version was named differently (textevo.jsx, textEvo241118.jsx...), remove it from the ScriptUI Panels folder, or you will have two Textevo panels in the Window menu.
  • Your settings are kept.
  • Your presets are kept too. The first time you open the presets window, Textevo offers to update the presets saved with an older version: see Presets saved with an older version.
  • The Textevo already in your projects keep working.