anybody know if it is possible to put an image in a UI window?

We are writing some scripts that send text to illustrator to be edited and then we read it back in AE. We've gotten the script to work, however, illustrator is requiring attention before it executes it's share of the script. There are no dialog boxes or anything, we simply need to switch to Illustra...

Is there a way to launch a second "child" UI window based on input the primary window?

Is there a way to invoke "Edit Original" in a script?

aha! i was going to tell you about the weird error that AE gives, but i figured you'd see it yourself. thanks for figuring it out, i am sure it would have taken me much longer!

lloyd

is there a way to get the current date using expressions?

no, what i am trying to do is get the width of a text layer (since thisLayer.width does not work as one would expect) and one work around we thought of here is to duplicate the text layer, create outlines and read the position of the left most and right most mask vertices using scripting, the proble...

i am trying to do this as well.. anybody know if this is possible?

According to Javascript a backspace is \b, but in AE it gives me a y with an accent. \r and \t work as expected. Anybody know what backspace is in AE?

thanks

You are right, i would need the media in and out from the source tape, but this info is displayed within FCP, so it's being stored somewhere. I guess i just assumed it was being stored in the QT file, but maybe you are correct about that. hmmmm.. I honestly don't know why it's so hard to read TC wit...

I found this little app on the apple website that i think will do what i want (the first half anyway): http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/qttimecode/qttimecode.html but i can't get it to run under 10.4.5 from the readme file it seems that it extracts the TC from a QT file which i could then write...

redefinery wrote:Is this the Timecode track in a QuickTime movie or burned-in timecode? I'm not aware of anything available to do either via scripting.

Jeff

I would like to read the Timecode track.

Is it possible to read the TC from a QT that was captured in Final Cut Pro or elsewhere?

I know that putting a script in the Scripts > Startup folder will auto run the script when AE launches, but can a script be run automatically when a specific project is opened?

Don't have that guide to refer to, but here's some simple ways to apply effects, starting with the most simple: This applies the "Levels" effect to the 1st layer in the active Comp: var myComp = app.project.activeItem; var myLayer = myComp.layer(1); myLayer("Effects").addProperty...