• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Is there an expression references the effect?

  Posted by Jamie Bradshaw on July 5, 2008 at 7:29 am

  Hi all.

  Does anyone know of an expression that can reference the effect that it is in?

  Something like a thisEffect much like the way you can use thisLayer

  I was hoping to be able to do something like this:

  thisEffect.name.length;

  Thanks,

  Jamie Bradshaw
  Motion Graphic Artist
  https://www.vimeo.com/jimjam

  Jamie Bradshaw replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  July 5, 2008 at 5:08 pm

  You can use propertyGroup() to go up the chain. For example, propertyGroup(1).name.length will give the length of the name of property group one level up, which might be the effect itself.
  If not, try propertyGroup(2).name.length and so on until you get to the effect level.

  Dan
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  Jamie Bradshaw

  July 5, 2008 at 8:12 pm

  Thanks loads Dan. I’m using the expression:

  propertyGroup().name.length;

  and it’s returning the length of the effect name. Just what I was after.

  One again you save the day! 😉

  Jamie Bradshaw
  Motion Graphic Artist
  https://www.vimeo.com/jimjam

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