• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  How to excerpt timecode data of nested, time-remapped clip?

  Posted by Kolja Van boekel on July 2, 2019 at 1:01 pm

  Hey there!

  I have a clip. That clip is time-remapped.
  This remapped clip is nested in a precomp.
  That precomp is put in my final comp and time-remapped again.

  Is there a possibility to get a CSV including the frames of my final comp and the timecode of my original clip?

  I came up with this expression that I put on a text layer, which makes sense in my mind, but it won’t output anything, not even an expression error.

  t = thisComp.layer("comp_containing_my_clip").source.layer("myclip.mp4").timeRemap;
valueAtTime(t);

  What am I not seeing here?

  Kolja Van boekel replied 6 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

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  Miguel De mendoza

  July 2, 2019 at 7:02 pm

  Just remove from your code "valueAtTime(t)"
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  Kolja Van boekel

  July 2, 2019 at 9:28 pm

  By doing this I get the values of the nested, time-remapped clip, but not the time-code of the clip inside the time-remapped comp… You know what I mean?
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  Kolja Van boekel

  July 4, 2019 at 12:41 pm

  I tried to make a graphic, I don’t know if my former explanation was sufficient…

  I am trying to get the timestamp of my clip after time-remapping it twice.

  

  With the code that I posted earlier I only get the timestamp that it has in Comp A, but not the one in the topmost layer, Comp B.

  I don’t get why my valueAtTime() doesn’t make any difference!
  Can somebody point me in the right direction?
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  Kolja Van boekel

  July 4, 2019 at 4:09 pm

  Whoever comes here to find an answer: I just found it.

  a=thisComp.layer("comp_containing_my_clip").timeRemap;
a2=thisComp.layer("comp_containing_my_clip").source.layer("myclip.mp4").timeRemap.valueAtTime(a);

  //give out seconds
timeToTimecode(t = a2, timecodeBase = 60, isDuration = false);

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