After Effects feature summary (March 2024 release)

The March 2024 release (version 24.3) includes per-character styling for Text layers, important fixes, and more.

Per-character styling

Access and manipulate individual characters within a text layer using scripting with new additions to the TextDocument DOM.

• The properties of individual characters can now be changed independently of the others with the new CharacterRange and ParagraphRange objects. 
• The new paragraphCount attribute will return the number of paragraphs in the TextDocument. 
• The new paragraphCharacterIndexesAt method will return the paragraph bounds from a character index—useful if you have a character index and wonder what the character index bounds of the paragraph it's part of. 
• It's now possible to faithfully round trip a mixed-property Text layer via the TextDocument without losing individual properties. 
• boxTextPos will now accept negative values.

Learn more about Per-character scripting and explore what’s new and changed for scripting in After Effects.

Fixed issues

Check out the latest fixes and performance improvements in the latest version of After Effects.