For anyone coming back to this, I found this thread really helpful. I added removing the source dummy null, so no accumulation in the project. Also - returning the original layer selection as making the null would disrupt the original selection. function ael_activeProjectOrComp() { //messes up selec...

Hello!
Just wondering if there is any documentation on hotkeys - for the expression editor, I can't find any info on it. I have accidentally discovered a couple of hotkeys... like one to have multiple carets!

Thanks.

var newMask = mySolid.Masks.addProperty("Mask"); var myMaskShape = newMask.property("maskShape"); var myShape = myMaskShape.value; myShape.vertices = [a,b,c,d]; myShape.closed = true; myMaskShape.setValue(myShape); a,b,c,d are 2 element arrays. So it's just mathematics getting t...

//Snippet from one of my scripts, using the executeCommandID method (I know, not the best solution) function exectuteCommandID(theCommand){ app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId(theCommand)); } function saveUsualFXPreset(){ alert("1.Please select the effects you want to save.\n2.Save the pre...

Can you just perform more specific tests?


if((items instanceof FootageItem) && (items.mainSource instanceof FileSource)
&& (items.mainSource.isStill == 0) && (items.hasVideo == true)&&(items.footageMissing == true)){//do stuff...}

Something like this: as a 2 element array: ?
[app.project.activeItem.width/10, app.project.activeItem.height/10, ]

Great - couldn't figure out what the story was. I have it packaged in a function and works fine, just thought there was something that I wasn't aware of.....

Will log it with Adobe in the morning, thanks Paul.

Hi there, I am having trouble understanding this problem. I have an AVLayer - startTime = -20, inPoint =20, outPoint =100; The duration of the source item is say 500; So I run this... app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0].inPoint=50; First run - does it as expected. second run - starts moving the...

Not that I am an expert - these guys explain it much better than I could.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1111 ... sures-work

http://davidbcalhoun.com/2011/what-is-a ... javascript

Hi there, don't forget to package the global vars in an object or to do some kind of closure. I was making that mistake for a while - safer to avoid them.

Also your script may want to interpret AVItems if they are not active during the work area and their length is not long enough to fill the work area or reach the current time. (Perhaps the in jumps to the work area start or something like that).

You have to remember that a folder is considered an item too. When I was making TidyUp (script for putting stuff in folders, similar to what you are doing here). It took me an age to realize that the index count was actually changing in the project panel. I was assuming that folders were not objects...

Hi there you need to google keyedup.jsx and if you take a look at my video on the script 'Isolate'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dAcLEMcgpU

It shows at the end how to use keyEdUp to assign keyboard shortcuts to scripts in After effects. You can assign up to 20 to keys.

Works well, there is a short cut for the current time - alt+] as far as I know.
You could add in 'trim to layer above' and below? Lloyd Alvarez has a similar script on aescripts.com but if
you have gone that far it would be no problem to you.

I think all the scripting elements are there to do it....don't think there is a shortcut. There is a property.elided function // property.expressionEnabled//property.isTimeVarying etc. So you would be able to differentiate between animated and just expression animated. See page 118 of the scripting ...