• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Change text layer to reflect visible clip?

  Posted by Nicolai Grut on September 16, 2011 at 1:48 am

  I am using this expression:
  thisComp.layer(index+1).source.name
  to create a title overlay to show the name of the layer below, works great. Is there anyway I can modify this so that it will change to automatically show the name of the next visible layer instead of the next layer? I would like to have a series of comps sequentially in a time line and have the text layer update to show the name of the comp currently visible.

  I hope that makes sense.

  title—title—title
  comp1————
  ——-comp2—–
  ————comp3

  Nicolai Grut replied 14 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  September 16, 2011 at 5:09 am

  This should help:

  https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/source-name.html

  Dan
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  Nicolai Grut

  September 16, 2011 at 2:33 pm

  Amazing!

  This is such a useful way of getting a ‘video index’ of your footage to check and share an overview of all your clips and stills.

  Thanks Dan!

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