• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  sourceText value to be the layer index number according to current time indicator

  Posted by Syed Iqbal on August 19, 2018 at 10:43 am

  Hi,
  Is there any way I could use a text layer and set it’s source text value to be the layer index number of the visible layer or where AE’s current time indicator is (CTI) during ram preview?

  Thanks.
  Syed

  Syed Iqbal replied 8 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  August 19, 2018 at 2:45 pm

  Try this:

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


  Dan
• 

  Syed Iqbal

  August 19, 2018 at 2:50 pm

  Thank you so much Dan. It works like a charm!

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