Hey Glenn, Now that i see your footage i get what you want to do. Personally I would have done it by hand as well, so don't feel bad for having gone that route. But so that you can understand a little more of how expressions work.. expressions work with numbers and data within the AE application. Th...

glenn wrote:ok, it's not a rope, but imagine it is.

Hey Glenn,

Maybe if you post the footage we'll have a better idea of what you are talking about. Based on your description i still think that tracking/stabilizing is the answer, but again.. i might be misunderstanding what you are after.

-Lloyd

The path of the txt file is hardcoded in the plug-in, "c:\textLength.txt", I don't know the path for the Mac sytem, but if a mac user is interested in and can send me the appropriate 'path syntax' for Mac, I will add it in the plug-in. Hey Nab, Nice Plugin! Thanks! For my BG Renderer scri...

OK, I'm fairly new to expressions, so this may be asking too much of them... To overlay moving footage onto a still... I have moving footage and a still On the still there are two fixed points. Is there a way to make two moving points on the footage line up in 2d onto the fixed points on the still?...

Hey Lloyd Just tried this script in AE7 and I get an error message : Unable to execute script at line 11. Syntax error. Any idea what could be causing that? I have a bunch of 3d layers selected in a comp that has a camera. Alex Hmm.. is the camera selected? There's absolutely no error checking in t...

I was successful in reading and displaying the filename within the composition with: text.sourceText=thisComp.layer(1).source.name I also can imagine something like with (i=1; i<=thisComp.numLayers; i++) { text.sourceText=thisComp.layer(1).source.name } But I have to do it for every composition. Is...

geegrafix wrote: I just can't believe I can't make a layer longer than the comp's duration...

This is an AE issue, not necessarily just a scripting thing. But your workaround is a good one. That's what i do when i need to do the same thing.

-Lloyd

Hi Raju,

I wrote a script that arranges layers in a grid:

viewtopic.php?t=475

That should get you started.

-Lloyd

darkmoon3d wrote:Is it possible to get project name as expression rather than running script?

nope

..would be terrific if you could load a new project while the previous one cooked.. You can definitely load new projects 8), you don't have to stay in the same project in which you launched the script. The render basically happens in another application so you are free to do anything you want while...

HUGE! Thank you! is it possible to pause or stop the renderer through the terminal? Thanks again. You can't pause the render. To stop it you can just close the terminal window. Alternately you can type CTRL-C in the window and it will stop the render as well. Please be aware though, that if you are...

thanks for this scripts. way cool. i'm trying it out now. and i have it working in the bg now and i quit after effects (7.0). then i did some work in another ap but i wanted to launch ae again and it won't launch now. is this normal? is any one else getting this? the bg renderer is still going and ...

Ive been waiting for Gridiron to release a nucleo pro type product for Premiere Pro. Given dual core is the norm now and most are moving to quad, some kind of background rendering app for this NLE would be awsome. Just wondering if its possable to modify your plug in or write a new one to enable th...

Thanks for that nab.. but since the .bat file is in the temp directory and it's < 1k i wasn't too worried about it.

http://aescripts.com/scripts/images/bg_renderer_palette_pc.png You can download the script here: http://aescripts.com/tag/bg-renderer/ Note: Script requires After Effects 7.0 or higher This script takes whatever items are queued and ready to render in the render queue and sends them to render in th...