Hi,
Using AE CS3 on a mac I get errors when trying to run this script. Can anyone suggest why?
I haven't kept up with the scripting since CS and am not sure why it isn't working...

hi guys, i was doing a search but couldn't find what i need. is there a way to use projectile motion with expressions? say, i have a bunch of layers that i want to blast in a certain direction (with variations). is there a way to set angle and velocity and gravity and trigger from a layer maker? i f...

motion blur doesn't seem to work properly when this is on! oh no!
does anyone else have that problem? i'm using ae7 on a g5 (non-intel) at the moment.
such a shame... works really well, if only it would blur!

the indices idea turned out to be pure gold. not much experience with arrays, so once i figured it out it made things a lot easier. i can now precompose rather than create a comp, copy the layer, place the comp in the original comp and delete the layer (the longhand way of precomposing). less code! ...

i can get it to run on all layers, but i want it to run only on those layers i select. the problem seems to be when i add the new comp in, it shuffles the layer indexes around momentarily, even though after i move the added comp and delete the original layer the indexes are all identical. since afte...

it works better now, but it only processes every 2nd item of my selected layers? why every 2nd item??? i don't get it. new code: { // opening brace // create undo group app.beginUndoGroup("Foo"); // rd_selectedLayers(comp, inOrder) // // Description: // This function retrieves an array of ...

hey guys, i have some 500 layers or more of 3d, for a 60 shot piece. each of these layers needs to be precomped once (so that any rotos i do on the matte will trickle down to the multiple times the matte will be used), and then once more (the matte is set to STENCIL LUMA as the topmost layer in anot...

so we can get the current date (which answers part of my question which i just posted on the cow). but then... how to format it? i want my date to appear in all caps, and there seems to be no way to do this. would anyone happen to have solution? i'm stumped. once i can format it according to my ever...

guess i've gotta upgrade then!

I GOT IT!!!!!!!!!! and it was by no means intuitive. for me anyway, but i've already said that i don't have a programming brain. var layerIndices = new Array(); for (var i = 0; i < myLayers.length; i++) { layerIndices[layerIndices.length] = myLayers[i].index; } then for (var i=(layerIndices.length -...

this works fine for selected layers that are non-contigous: var layerIndices = new Array(); for (var i = 0; i < myLayers.length; i++) { layerIndices[layerIndices.length] = myLayers[i].index; myLayers[i].copyToComp(layerComp); } except that once i open up the comp "layerComp", the layers' o...

also, from looking at redefinery.com, iterating through items in reverse isn't a problem for me, as long as i'm iterating through ALL items in reverse. jeff gives an example of iterating in reverse here. http://www.redefinery.com/ae/fundamentals/comps/#comp_delete as i said, it's iterating through a...

hey byron, nope, that code doesn't do it. what i'm trying to do is make my precomp to eact duration script more robust. i need to take the selected layers, and copyToComp, and i want them copied from the bottom up, so that they maintain their original order in the new comp (as when you copy, it plac...

did anyone ever figure out how to move project items into an existing folder? i was just trying to do this myself and so was searching the forums for a solution, because everything i've tried doesn't work.

sounds simple, but is confusing me. i thought something like this. var layerIndices = new Array(); for (var i = layerIndices[layerIndices.length]; i >= 1; i--) { layerIndices[layerIndices.length] = myLayers .index; myLayers .copyToComp(layerComp); } but of course i wasn't thinking properly. this is ...