This seems like something AE was not really meant to do, so I'm not sure if there's a simple answer... anyway, lets say I have a list of 50 images in a comp, and I want to display one of those images based on the value of a variable. I have thought of two approaches: 1. Somehow swapping the source o...

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Updated! Download Alpha 0.0.2 here: http://www.alanhettinger.com/dropbox/punch_mac_002.zip http://www.alanhettinger.com/dropbox/punch_windows_002.zip Fun sample AE project included in the download! Hey all, so here's a little program I've been working on. It's called "Punch" and it is a t...

Yes, but you can't "batch" render from one comp...you have to duplicate it right?

This would do a true batch render from one comp. Does that make sense? You input the text in a list, and it does a render for each line of text.

So I'm working on a little java program that does batch rendering for AE. The idea is, you set the render preferences once, then this program rattles off a number of renders...replacing text each time (for a lower third or something). So my questions... With aerender, do I have to set -comp to make ...

Hey, sorry for the bump, but I'm also interested in this idea... any solutions yet?

If they're gonna do XML, why not make text content easy to modify???

Ok, got my answer.

I've got an animated layer, and my comp is 30fps, but I want this layer to update every other frame (or maybe every 3rd or 4th frame), so it will appear to be running at a lower frame rate. Is there an easy way to do this with an expression? In this particular case, I'm just animating the position v...

Thanks this is great!

I screwed the pooch by working in 29.97 in one comp and 30 in another. When I copied some layers over, their keyframes got shifted ever so slightly and it's really screwing me up. Now I have about 1000000 keyframes that I'm selecting one by one trying to line them up with the frames because they're ...

Awesome, thanks for all the help!

Thanks, this actually works backwards from the way I thought it would (I was thinking apply it to the , but makes more sense this way too. Here's the final script I'm using: startD = 200; //start distance (in pixels) from null endD = 50; //end distance from null startO= 100; //starting opacity endO=...

Hi, I'm using this expression on the scale of some precomps based on the closeness of another layer. But I also need it to change the opacity of a layer inside the precomps. All the precomps are set up the same way, with same amount of layers in the same order. What is the best way to go about refer...