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  Get time of other comp

  Posted by Andreas Woelfl on June 27, 2016 at 3:27 pm

  Hello everybody,

  I try to explain what I am trying to do.

  In my main composition I have various precomps. Within these precomps I have shape layers who’s colors are linked via expressions to color controls in the main comp:
  comp(“main”).layer(“ColorControl”).effect(“Color Control”)(“Color”)

  Now I am animating the color via keyframes in the main comp.

  Up to now everything works fine.

  Here is the problem:
  Now when I shift a precomp in the timeline of the main comp, the timing of the color animation of the shifted layer delays.

  How can I tell the color attribute of the pre comps shape layer that I want him to change color according to the main timeline, no matter how many frame I shift the precomp on the main comps timeline.

  thanks a lot!!!!!!

  Andreas Woelfl replied 10 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Dan Ebberts

  June 27, 2016 at 5:16 pm

  Try it this way:

  C = comp(“main”);
  ctrl = C.layer(“Color Control”).effect(“Color Control”)(“Color”);
  L = C.layer(thisComp.name);
  ctrl.valueAtTime(time + L.startTime)

  Dan
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  Andreas Woelfl

  July 18, 2016 at 2:41 pm

  Uuuuuh, great. That’s what I needed.

  Thank you so much!

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