I think you can do what you want with expressions using a text layer which shows the frame number and then add an effect "Change to Color" where the "To" color is: P = [2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,73,79,83,89,97,101,103,107,109,113,127,131,137,139,149] ; t = timeToFr...

Are you trying to write an expression for the colour of the counter, for example to use in the "Change to Color" effect, or to write a script that will set keyframes for the color and value of a text layer? I ask because this is the "Expressions" area of the forum but setting att...

I think I understand what you are trying to do better now. I will stick with my original answer though - track mattes with colour manipulations have amazing possibilities - here is a short example - the plane has been coloured blue to match the sky. A red border has been added which is active only w...

I achieved this with an expression in time remapping the footage, but unlike most properties, if there is no time remapping, there is no stopwatch symbol to Alt-click. However, I found that by selecting "Time->Enable Time Remapping" on the footage layer it creates two keyframes which effec...

Yes, you can create "TrackMattes" which is basically saying mask one layer (A) by the one (B) immediately above it. This layer can be a copy of another layer and have various colour manipulations applied. Wherever the result is white, A will be visible, black it will not. The attached proj...

Thanks very much for this. I made use of this technique for copying effects and it works great ... mostly, but I have come across a case where the copy did not happen. No error messages were generated. I implemented a retry mechanism, and in a substantial regression test the copy had to be retried a...

You mentioned jounalists, and I am wondering if you are aware of "paragraph text" which will automatically fully justify text and has four different options for dealing with the last line. I think this is more what is expected in journalism than scaling lines by different amounts. https://...

I achieved this with time remapping, but unlike most properties, if there is no time remapping, there is no stopwatch symbol to Alt-click. However, I found that by selecting Time->Enable Time Remapping on the footage layer it creates two keyframes which effectively mean no-remapping. I found that yo...

There is lots of published javascript to read CSV files, but many do not completely implement quoting of fields and including delimiters and quotes within quoted fields. CSV is a documented spec, see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 and https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0003...