• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Make a script to parent bottom layer to current selected layer.

  Posted by Carlos Pendas on February 16, 2017 at 5:51 am

  Hello, I’ve got this very repetitive task that I perform dozens of times per hour, I need to parent the layer right under the selected layer to the selected layer. Ideally I would assign a shortcut to this script.

  Problem is, I read through the documentation, searched forums and I can’t understand how to do it. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

  Thanks!

  Dan Ebberts replied 9 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Dan Ebberts

  February 16, 2017 at 6:52 am

  This should get you headed in the right direction:

  
var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var myLayers = myComp.selectedLayers;
if (myLayers.length > 0){
var myLayer = myComp.selectedLayers[0];
if (myLayer.index < myComp.numLayers){
myComp.layer(myLayer.index +1).parent = myLayer;
}
}


  Dan

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