• Adobe After Effects

  Script to gradually fade in several layers?

  Posted by Philip Zeplin-frederiksen on January 26, 2014 at 6:00 pm

  Hi!

  I’m hoping someone here might have an idea/help for me 🙂

  With the project I’m working on, a recurring scene is one of fading in Photoshop layers (from a PSD file), one after the other.
  So the first layer starts fading in, then about half-way through the fade, the second one starts fading in, etc.
  Example:

  .1————
  .. 2————
  …. 3————
  …… 4————

  The PSD files often have 100+ layers, so doing this manually is a pain in the behind, and I’m getting slightly dizzy at the thought of doing this to dozens of files.

  Is there any way to automate this somehow? With a script, plugin, or something else?

  Joseph W. bourke replied 12 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Joseph W. bourke

  January 26, 2014 at 6:37 pm

  Philip –

  I think you may be able to use one of the built-in Behaviors in After Effects. Here’s a short tutorial which doesn’t focus on the ones you need, but will show you the list, which looks like there may be useful stuff there:

  https://ae.tutsplus.com/articles/news/behavior-presets-introduction/

  I see “Fade in Over Layer Below”, “Fade In and Out Frames”, and “Fade In and Out msec”. I’m not in front of AE, but I believe these automatically adjust to the length of your still.

  Joe Bourke
  Owner/Creative Director
  Bourke Media
  http://www.bourkemedia.com

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