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  Script or tool to toggle visibility(or audio) globally for certain sub layers?

  Posted by Greg C neumayer on September 27, 2016 at 9:55 pm

  Hi gang.
  My client wants me to export separate Voice-over, Music, SFX, and Picture versions of our project.
  Many of the VO and SFX clips are pretty deep in sub-layers, since we’re animating mouths to voice clips.
  Is there a way (tool/expression/product) to go in one time and re-label everything so that it can be effectively toggled at the top level so that I can more easily make these versions?

  For example, I go in and everything that’s a sound effect, I start it’s layer name with “sfx…” Then, at the top level, I run a script that will turn on the visibility/audio only for layers that start with “sfx” so that I can do just a pass of these files.

  Anything out there or any ideas?

  Thanks,
  Greg

  Greg C neumayer replied 9 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Xavier Gomez

  September 27, 2016 at 10:16 pm

  The script Zorro will do most of this i believe.

  https://aescripts.com/zorro-the-layer-tagger/

  Xavier
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  Greg C neumayer

  September 28, 2016 at 12:39 am

  Yeah, that’s almost perfect, but it looks like it’s limited to only the current comp. I need to be able to set up my project so that later I can toggle those little layers down in sub-comps.

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