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Motion projects are handed over with comp names as the only documentation. Typally types what you say straight into Adobe After Effects — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Adobe After Effects lets you type.
Written by the team behind Typally. Adobe After Effects's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.None. Comp names, comments and notes are typed.
An After Effects project with two hundred layers named 'Shape Layer 43' is unusable by anyone else, including the person who made it three months later. Naming and commenting is the documentation, and it is skipped under deadline.
In practice people use it for: Comp and layer naming, project notes, client revision replies, and expression comments.
Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into Adobe After Effects, setup is the same everywhere:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Make sure Adobe After Effects has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.
Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.
After Effects shortcuts are single-key and destructive in places. Be certain a text field is active.
Typally types into project notes, comment fields and your email, so the documentation that makes a project reusable gets written at handover rather than never. Mind the shortcuts — with no text field focused, After Effects reads keystrokes as commands.
A motion designer comments the six expressions driving a template. The client's in-house team makes their own updates for a year instead of paying for every text change.
Comment your expressions. An expression with no comment is the thing nobody dares change, which means the whole comp becomes untouchable.
After Effects shortcuts are single-key and destructive in places. Be certain a text field is active.
No. Its fields are typed.
Expressions and anything driven by them. Those are invisible in the timeline and terrifying to touch.
Yes, and revision correspondence is where an editor's typing time actually goes.
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