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  Import multi layered photoshop file into aftereffects to reveal a cascading effect of layers coming in???

  Posted by Sam Baum on January 3, 2013 at 12:05 pm

  Hi All

  I’ve got a conundrum for you.

  I have a multi (multi) layerd photoshop file. It’s a mosaic, so lots of little tiles all on seperate layers. I want to import it into aftereffects as a composition but instead of all the layers starting on frame 1, I want them stagered so that when I reneder the project, the layers appear to populate the screen in a sort of cascading effect.

  Is there a dynamic way of doing this? OR do have to do this manually?

  Thanks

  Sam

  Sam Baum replied 13 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Robert Womack

  January 3, 2013 at 1:26 pm

  Select all the layers.

  Either right-click and select Keyframe Assistant>Sequence Layers, or go to the Animation menu>Keyframe Assistant>Sequence Layers.

  Select overlap and put in the interval you want them to overlap by.

  Or you can write a script that loops through the number of layers and sets the inPoint of layer[i] to i – something along the lines of

  
for (i=0; i<=composition.numLayers; i++) {
composition.layer[i].inPoint = i;
}


  Note, the syntax on this is most likely all wrong, but this is the general idea.
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  Dan Ebberts

  January 3, 2013 at 1:29 pm

  How about Animation>Keyframe Assistant>Sequence Layers?

  Dan
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  Sam Baum

  January 3, 2013 at 1:43 pm

  Oh cool. Sequence layers. Never heaard of that! I’ll give that a go. thanks team!

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