• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Layers count

  Posted by Xaver Cendar on March 8, 2014 at 1:58 pm

  Hi,
  I would like to make an info layout around my comp. The info I need there is shot number. I can make one shot one layer. Is there any expression or plugin to make it happen?

  Thanks for your help

  Dan Ebberts replied 12 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Dan Ebberts

  March 8, 2014 at 4:46 pm

  It sounds like you might need a variation of this:

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

  Something like this would display the index of the topmost currently-visible layer:

  
txt = "";
for (i = 1; i <= thisComp.numLayers; i++){
if (i == index) continue;
L = thisComp.layer(i);
if (! (L.hasVideo && L.active)) continue;
txt = L.index;
break;
}
txt


  Dan

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