Accessing comment number or index?

[Kevin Camp]

the index is specified with marker.key(index)…

so myComp.layer(“audio.aif”).marker.key(10).comment would return the comment of the 10th marker.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Corby Logue]

Thanks Kevin:

I’m getting an error when I use that (from the script toolkit from inside AE).

Also, while ultimately I do need to get the comment from the marker, still wondering if there is just a way to access the 10-ness (for lack of a better term) from the 10th maker. I’ve got a couple of nested loops going and I’m trying to make sure that I’m starting from the proper marker when I loop back through a second time. So I’m trying to use an alert statement to tell me what number marker the script has reached at that point.

The comment associated with the marker won’t really work, because it’s an audio file with a comment for every marker/word (done through Adobe Media Encoder). Anyway, there are around 400 markers/words, so there are too many duplicates to check the word itself. Getting the number of the marker would be way more helpful.

Thanks

[Kevin Camp]

what if you tried this in your script:
var myComp = app.project.activeItem
var numMarkers = myComp.layer("audio.aif").marker.key(10)
alert(numMarkers);
does it return ’10’?

i will confess that i do not write java script, but i do use expressions a lot, and marker.key(integer) would be how you would specify a specific key by index number.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Corby Logue]

Nope… still getting an error.

And I tried the same thing. I just turned “myComp.layer(“audio.aif”).marker.key(10)” into a var. Then tried a trace/alert statement.

Thanks though.

[Dan Ebberts]

I think this will work:

var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var numMarkers = myComp.layer(“audio.aif”).property(“Marker”).numKeys;
alert(numMarkers);

Dan

[Corby Logue]

Thanks Dan (albeit belated). I got it figured out.

That script will just give the total number of markers, correct?

Just wanted to clean this up for someone looking in the future. Again, I was trying to see if I could access the number of a Marker at a certain point while the script was running its routine. As for why I needed that… I have little idea what I’m doing (or I’m figuring it out as I go), so alert statements have been immense in helping me figure out where things are going wrong. I was never able to get this solved specifically, but by setting up some dummy variables that were counting, I worked around it. Pretty happy that I got everything written and it works. For now. Still one more problem to solve.

Thanks again.

[Eblu Beta]

Corby,
I was fishing on the internet for something very similar to what you were trying to do, got to the end of your thread, and was disappointed. about 5 minutes later I figured it out, after stumbling upon the valueAtKey function.

thought I’d post it for future scripters

here is the magic code:

layerRef.marker.keyValue(IndexVariable).comment

layerRef is a reference to a specific layer
marker is the property
keyValue is the function you need to be able to do this.
indexVariable can be your loop variable in a for loop
comment is how you get the value of the comment of the marker (you could use another value there like: chapter, or url.

layerRef.marker.keyValue(IndexVariable).comment

[Eblu Beta]

no it doesn’t.
you have to use KeyValue()

keyValue is not interchangeable with key();

theLayer.marker.keyValue(e);