• Adobe After Effects

  Script to set a Keyframe at current time

  Posted by Oscar Gomez on November 1, 2017 at 11:51 pm

  Hi all! I need some help creating a script to add a keyframe on a selected layer.

  I already have one that works but this only works for position, rotation, scale or opacity. I need this script to add the keyframe on a slider control in the selected layer called HandShape.

  Here’s the script I got:

  var MyComp = app.project.activeItem;
  if(MyComp && MyComp.selectedLayers.length > 0){
  for(var i = 0 ; i < MyComp.selectedLayers.length; i++){
  var currentLayer = MyComp.selectedLayers[i];
  currentLayer.property(myProperty = “rotation”).setValueAtTime(MyComp.time,myValue = 5);
  };
  }else{
  alert(“At least one layer must be selected”);
  };

  Thanks for taking the time to read this, hopefully someone out there can solve it!

  Oscar Gomez replied 8 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Walter Soyka

  November 2, 2017 at 4:54 pm

  Try this:

  var MyComp = app.project.activeItem;
if(MyComp && MyComp.selectedLayers.length > 0){
for(var i = 0 ; i < MyComp.selectedLayers.length; i++){
var currentLayer = MyComp.selectedLayers[i];
currentLayer.effect("HandShape")("Slider").setValueAtTime(MyComp.time,myValue = 5);
};
}else{
alert("At least one layer must be selected");
};

  Walter Soyka
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  Oscar Gomez

  November 2, 2017 at 10:56 pm

  Walter Soyka, you are amazing!

  Thank you so much for taking the time to solve this. This is going to be a HUGE time saver on the project I’m working on!

  Cheers,
  Oscar

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