Observed arrival · 2026-10-13
Lester: captions that keep your After Effects animation
Lester is an After Effects extension that transcribes voiceover and makes captions using the animation styling of a text layer you build.
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- After Effects editors making animated voiceover captions
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- It reads Text Animator, Range Selector and Offset keyframes, and describes one-step undo for the generated captions.
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The setup starts with a text layer containing a Text Animator, Range Selector, and animated Offset; the page says Lester checks for missing pieces before generation. It describes local, word-level transcription, pause-based splits, and line lengths chosen to fit each caption. Presets can be searched across folders and applied to selected layers, while one undo is intended to reverse the entire batch.
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