As i was creating it i kept adding more features to it and realized that if I ever wanted to make a change to a color scheme I would have to update 15 separate expressions. The template itself does a number of things: Changes icons/logo, changes the animation based on which logo is selected, changes three separarate layers of text based a dropdown, changes the color scheme of the background, text, and individual icon/logo elements, as well as giving custom controls to each of these. I discovered this while creating a somewhat complicated template for my editors. If you only import the data to the project, but do not have it in a composition that is a part of the template then it will be not be added to the template as a 'Footage Item' since as far as AE can tell it is an unnecessary item in the AE project. All you have to do is add the JSON and JSX file as layers to a compisition that is involved in the final MOGRT template.

I did find however that you can use JSON data and external expression files (.jsx files used to store javascript code snippets to reuse). mogrt (meaning a file stored on the drive that is continuously updated and changed). I included the process I went through to discover this in case its helpful to someone.Īs far as i know there is not a way to reference an external JSON file in a.

I know this is probably too late to help the original author of the question but I have info that may help others who find this.

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