• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Get Markers info via scripting

  Posted by Rainier Raydán on April 26, 2019 at 9:10 pm

  Hi guys!

  I have a layer with several markers. Is there any way to get those markers time and comment information?
  I would like to get the time of every marker so I can use it to split the layer (I have a lot of those footage with markers…)

  Thanks!

  Rainier Raydán replied 7 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

• 

  Tomas Bumbulevičius

  April 27, 2019 at 6:40 pm

  Hello Rainier, assuming you have scripting experience:
  1. Where and in what form you want markers data to be retrieved?
  2. Do you plan on processing/interpret the data on your own?

  Find out more:
  After Effects Tutorials: motion design, expressions, scripting.
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  Rainier Raydán

  April 29, 2019 at 2:27 pm

  Hi!

  I just need to access to the time property of every marker via scripting. I know how to do it in expressions but I can’t find anything about it on the scripting guide…
• 

  Dan Ebberts

  April 29, 2019 at 4:45 pm

  Here’s a simple example to retrieve the times of the first comp marker and the first marker for layer 1:

  
var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var myLayer = myComp.layer(1);
if (myComp.markerProperty.numKeys > 0){
alert(myComp.markerProperty.keyTime(1));
}
if (myLayer.property("Marker").numKeys > 0){
alert(myLayer.property("Marker").keyTime(1));
}


  Dan
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  Rainier Raydán

  April 29, 2019 at 5:11 pm

  Was it that easy??
  haha thanks!

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