• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  select all the layers with the same name

  Posted by Israel Diaz on December 20, 2017 at 10:10 am

  Hello.

  I will like select all the layer with the same name..

  var aDoc = app.project.activeItem.layer(“Blackmagic Production Camera 4K”).selected = true;

  If you dont mind help me.

  Thank you

  Dan Ebberts

  

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• 

  Dan Ebberts

  December 20, 2017 at 2:20 pm

  Try this:

  
var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
for (var i = 1; i <= myComp.numLayers; i++){
myComp.layer(i).selected = (myComp.layer(i).name == "Blackmagic Production Camera 4K");
}


  Dan
• 

  Nick Smith

  November 30, 2018 at 2:59 pm

  Hi.

  Hope it’s okay to add one more question here. Ist there a way to use this script to select layers that have the partly the same name? Let’s say I’ve got this layers:

  rendering_1
  Video
  rendering_2
  rendering_blue
  Picture

  How can I select all the layers that share the ‘rendering’ part in their name by using a script like yours?

  Thank you.
• 

  Dan Ebberts

  November 30, 2018 at 4:58 pm

  You could do something like this:

  
var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
for (var i = 1; i <= myComp.numLayers; i++){
myComp.layer(i).selected = (myComp.layer(i).name.indexOf("rendering") > -1);
}


  Dan

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