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a ‘time in’ expression…
Hi all,
I was wondering if there was an expression that knows what ‘the time’ is piece of footage starts. So for instance, if I had a layer of footage that was place at the 2 second mark of a comp, is there and expression that could return “00:00:02:00” as a value?
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4 Replies
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thisComp.layer(“My Layer”).inPoint
Change the “My Layer” to whatever your layer name is.
As a check, when this expression is put on Source Text of a text layer you get the Time of My Layer’s inPoint.
Well, it returns the time in 1.234567, seconds to 6 decimal points.
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In your example it would say, “2.0000000”.
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Ooops, I lied, it’s to 14 decimal points. Do you want something different?
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You could also try applying this to a text layer:
L = thisComp.layer(“Layer 1”);
timeToTimecode(L.inPoint)Which should give you the timecode for Layer 1’s in point.
Dan
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