FWIW, how to reproduce 1. Create new comp 2. Add an image to it 3. Add this expression to the image's Transform > Position property: var me = inspect(thisLayer); function inspect(layer) { var info = { layer: layer, scaling: { x: layer.transform.scale[0] / 100, y: layer.transform.scale[1] / 100 }, //...

Is there any difference between accessing scaling, position and anchor points via someLayer.transform.* instead of going directly to someLayer.* ? I had some weird case here where accessing even someLayer.transform.scale[0] would crash AE with an error about it trying to allocate several megabytes o...

As a side note: interestingly enough I did not actually need access to these properties, as I only needed to take into account the .left and .top aspects of the rect returned by sourceRectAtTime().

Aha, but that was quite helpful actually at least in understanding how to iterate over the properties - it wasn't apparent how the relation to .numProperties and .(1..numProperties) worked. For what I am doing I should be able to just write a script that will add the expression to the layer anyhow (...

I am trying to figure out if it is possible from an expression to access 2 text properties: 1. If a bounding box is enabled, and if so, its size (width/height). I.e NOT .sourceRectAtTime() but the constraining box that wraps and limits the size of the text. 2. The paragraph alignment setting, i.e. l...