• Adobe After Effects

  Sequence Layers with script

  Posted by Dan Thomas on May 8, 2013 at 4:12 am

  Through jsx scripting, I would like to select some layers in a comp, and sequence them. Manually, this is done by clicking Animation -> Keyframe Assistant -> Sequence Layers. Is there a way to do this through jsx scripting? Thanks!

  Dan Thomas replied 13 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Ridley Walker

  May 8, 2013 at 5:16 am

  You might like to look at these 2 scripts:

  https://aescripts.com/sortie/

  https://aescripts.com/rift/
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  John Cuevas

  May 8, 2013 at 1:39 pm

  Videocopilot had a free seequencer script that you can find in the project files of the 103. 3D Ball Dispersion tutorial.

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  Thinkck.com

  “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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  Dan Thomas

  May 9, 2013 at 11:38 pm

  Thanks John, from that I was able to do what I wanted. Here is what I ended up with for anyone else who needs it:

  var frameRate = 30;
  var maxDuration = 10;
  var maxWidth = 760;
  var maxHeight = 500;
  var pixelAspect = 1;
  theComp = app.project.items.addComp(“out_test”, maxWidth, maxHeight, pixelAspect, maxDuration, frameRate);

  var comp_folder = findFolder (findFolder(app.project, “scenes”), “my_folder”)

  comp0 = findItem(comp_folder,”comp0″)
  comp1 = findItem(comp_folder,”comp1″)

  theComp.layers.add(comp0)
  theComp.layers.add(comp1)

  var duration = 0;
  for (var i = 1; i

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