Take a look at: http://omino.com/pixelblog/2008/12/25/ae-mask-vertices-from-extendscript/ at first glance without going through your logic, you might be missing myMask.setValue(shapeArray); also ...that you must assign the vertices before assigning closed to true or false http://www.chris-g.net/2008...

hola all, yes, I've sort of fallen off of the face of the AE scripting earth as I've moved a lot of my efforts to the web side of things. I'm really hoping to find some more time to pursue some AE scripts though, especially since I've seen all of the incredible energy and output from the community a...

Please correct me if I'm wrong but it appears that Adobe did not implement the filtering or wildcard features of E4X which is why I found XPath useful here. Thanks again! yep, that's right, although I don't think Xpath is native to E4X so it's a pretty decent compromise. Your Xpath query looks grea...

Hey louai, The general idea is to loop through the outermost element that you know will be consistent. So, if the CJ element is known to have vidPlayerTextFrame as children (pseudocode, I'm not sitting in front of a dev setup) var xmlNodes = cj.children(); for(frame in xmlNodes){ if(frame.name() == ...

Hey Lloyd,

Yes, on the mac and with the same sample script from Bridge. I'll file a bug.

thanks for confirming,

Dale

Hey Scott, I think you'll be happier digging deeper into compressor or trying one of the other dedicated transcoding apps like Cleaner or if money is a factor some of the great open source tools like Streamclip, ffmpeg, et al. I've been knee deep in transcoding for years now and the workflow issues ...

I don't think you really need a post-processing expression. Just give the user the option of what kind of easing, enable time remap, set that ease with user input at x time, and then use the time graph in the graph editor to adjust the time remap.

Would it make sense to set the comp up linearly and then set a time remap on the placed comp perhaps with some controls to adjust the remap?

Dale

Hey Darkmoon, That's a good idea. In general, I wish we had a user thread that was non-blocking. I'm struggling with both asynch and user feedback stuff. If there was a non-blocking event listener with a useful polling event we could marshal scripts a lot more efficently. Off to do a feature request...

Has anybody had any luck using Progress Bars and updating text while a script is running. The controls work fine until I hook it into a running script and then I only get a stream of updates after the body of the script is finished. It appears to be a threading problem where the Object methods are c...

So how does this TCP connection work?

The Socket Object is pretty handy for doing TCP stuff. You can also filter TCP requests through callSystem();

hey folks, With the new XML parsing abilities in AE CS3, I've been playing around with parsing web feeds and I've reached the point where I'd like to deal with some enclosures. I've been following roughly the workflow of 1. set up a socket 2. feed a url to the socket 3. parse the xml and gather urls...

Hey Matty,

When I used monter's script with the .ssf file you provided I got useful masks for your image sequences. There was a mask key on every frame that moved accordingly.

Best,

Dale

Hey monter,

Thanks for making the source available.

Best,

Dale

Hey nab, That's really helpful, thanks. Yep, this is for the FCPToAE project. It's been a great learning experience. I've learnt a ton about Shape Objects, vertices, E4X xml parsing,bezier paths(thanks again), etc. It's always nice to have a big project, that you can break down and have a decently l...