Inheriting text in text by the term layer

I have a template that I use on a daily basis, which has a title of the song in it (of course different videos). I want to be able to quickly change that, by defining an expression equal to something. I was hoping to do with options for expressions in a null, but as far I can tell that's not possible. So I think it will be the name of a layer (so the text carries the same name as the layer). I'm not an expert in expressions, however, I just know that there is an expression of 'name '. Anyone who could provide an example of how do, and if it is impossible, another way to do this?

Let's say you had a layer that is named Clip.mov of sample and you renamed this BOO layer. Now, you add an empty text layer and then reveal the Source text property of a text layer. You select a Source text expression by dragging the pickwhip to your sample Clip.mov layer and then add .name

The final expression would look like this:

thisComp.layer ("sample Clip.mov") .name

If you have renamed the layer to BOO the text layer would read. BOO, if you do not rename the layer, then the text would read sample Clip.mov.

Simple as that.

If you wanted the text layer to display the name of the layer just below you can replace the expression as follows:

thisComp.layer(index_+1).name

Then the text layer would be always derived the name of the source or if you have renamed the layer, the new name of the layer that was just below the text layer.

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