You should be able to read all the lines of the actual text, but the font and other values do seem to just come from the first character. You wouldn't be able to 100% guarantee that you've listed all fonts used in a project. Even if you checked the font used on every keyframe, it would still miss fo...

Hi David, Nothing major has changed in this area since CS4, so as far as I know it still isn't possible, and I doubt it ever will be. I can't even imagine how it could be implemented. You'd need some way of querying the style of every single character on a text layer. At the moment, it just appears ...

Do you mean test if the script is running in After Effects, or test if it's running as a dockable panel?

For the second you could use something like:

You're sending two different types of "layers" to the chngDur function. Your own "layers" array starts with an index of 0. But comp.layers (which you send when you find a precomp) is from 1 > comp.numLayers. You could send an additional startIndex to changDur: chngDur(layers,val,...

Your for loop starts from var i = 1 while an array index (layers) starts from 0.

BTW: Instead of layers = curComp.selectedLayers;
you can use this to add to an array layers.push(curComp.selectedLayers);

Paul

Hi Dave,

From the screenshot it looks like you just haven't chosen to view the scene through the camera. The top left view is labelled 'perspective'. From the viewport menu choose Camera > Scene Cameras > Camera 1.

Paul

The top to bottom text flow mode is a bit of a hack, done by adding a line return after each character, and I don't think I've heard from anyone who's used it. I didn't implement bouncing ball for that mode as it wasn't clear what it should do, or if anyone would use it. I think your best chance is ...

There's an example here: http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2008/12/after-effects-cs4-scripting-ch.html You need to grab the text value, change it, then set it back to the property: var myTextDocument = myTextLayer.property("ADBE Text Properties").property("ADBE Text Document") v...

The easiest way would be to parent your new layer to the Ball layer, and turn the Ball layer off.

I needed to do this too and found it wasn't easy. I ended up doing it by saving animation presets for each layer style (Blending Options too) into a 'support folder' and then getting the script to locate and apply the correct animation preset. I recommend filing a request to allow layer styles to be...

I've just tried it on CS5 too and can confirm it doesn't work for me on CS5 Mac either. Looks like a bug.

Paul

Why does your listbox disappear when clicked? Is that something you've coded it to do? If you have an "onChange" function that you don't want to be called, you can temporarily set it to null (e.g. listbox.onChange = null) while updating the listbox, then reassign it to the onChange functio...

I just put this script in my Startup folder and it worked as expected. Does it work for you?

I've posted an update for this script, now called pt_CropPrecomps.

New in version 2.0:

- Dockable UI and built-in help
- Option to retain border pixels
- Various bug fixes
- New video tutorial

Watch the tutorial video and download pt_CropPrecomps from aescripts.com

I've posted an update to pt_SSA Karaoke Animator (v2.3) with the following changes: - Added a bouncing ball option. - Removed the old animation system. Now only works with animation presets. - Built-in help and user guide to learn how to create your own presets. - Includes some new built in presets....