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General Configuration

The Settings Panel handles global configuration.

General Settings​

  • Warn before creating all versions: Shows a confirmation dialog before batch-generating all compositions to prevent accidental long processing times.

  • Only include text layers in copy, paste and import/export actions: When enabled, comp-type rows are excluded from all copy, paste, and import/export operations - "Copy source layers with index", "Copy all versions", "Export .tsv", "Copy JSON", and the Paste button in the version table. See Copy & Paste for full details.

  • Line breaks in copied & exported text: Controls how a line break inside a text layer appears when you copy or export that text. Choose from:

    • Replace with a space (default): each line break becomes a single space, so the text stays on one line and one row per layer.
    • Keep as literal \n: line breaks are written out as the characters \n. This keeps rows intact and round-trips cleanly when you re-import.
    • Keep as a real line break: the actual line break is preserved. Note that a real line break can split a single cell across multiple rows when pasted into a spreadsheet or re-imported, which is why Replace with a space is the default.

Duplication Settings​

These settings control how AE Sheets handles text during the composition duplication process.

  • Apply text settings to non-indexed layers: If enabled, font and text property changes (from the Preset) will be applied to all text layers in the composition, even if they aren't indexed in AE Sheets.
  • Highlight bracketed words: If enabled, text wrapped in brackets (e.g., [highlight]) will be colored differently.
  • Highlight Color: Choose the color for the bracketed text highlighting.