Convert Text Source Keyframes to Marker layers with same text

[Dan Ebberts]

This should get you close:

function keyframesToMarkers(){
	var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
	if (myComp == null || ! (myComp instanceof CompItem)){
		alert ("No comp active.");
		return;
	}
	if (myComp.selectedLayers.length == 0){
		alert ("No layer selected.");
		return;
	}
	var myLayer = myComp.selectedLayers[0];
	if ( ! (myLayer instanceof TextLayer)){
		alert ("Selected layer is not a text layer.");
		return;
	}
	var markerVal = new MarkerValue("");
	var mySourceText = myLayer.property("ADBE Text Properties").property("ADBE Text Document");
	var myTextDoc;
	for (var i = 1; i <= mySourceText.numKeys; i ++){
		myTextDoc = mySourceText.keyValue(i);
		markerVal.comment = myTextDoc.text;
		myLayer.property("Marker").setValueAtTime(mySourceText.keyTime(i),markerVal);
	}
}
keyframesToMarkers();

[Craig Trayler]

Thank you Dan! Your works are just great. This worked perfectly.
One more thing if I may, I have only just noticed some Source text keyframes were purposely made empty/Blank/containing not text, is there a line of code you can add to check that if the Keyframe is empty, to ignore making a marker and move onto the next one?

[Dan Ebberts]

Just put this line:

if (myTextDoc.text == "") continue;

right before this one:

markerVal.comment = myTextDoc.text;

[Craig Trayler]

Fantastic, thank you again Dan.

[Craig Trayler]

Hi Dan or anyone who can assist a little more.
Everything is great, but wanted to know if there is also a way to add duration of each created marker to extend it’s length until the next following text source keyframe?

I would venture a guess that there needs to be an If function to check if there is a next keyframe to counter an error for the very last keyframe.

Thanks in advance,
Craig

[Dan Ebberts]

Like this, I guess:

function keyframesToMarkers(){
	var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
	if (myComp == null || ! (myComp instanceof CompItem)){
		alert ("No comp active.");
		return;
	}
	if (myComp.selectedLayers.length == 0){
		alert ("No layer selected.");
		return;
	}
	var myLayer = myComp.selectedLayers[0];
	if ( ! (myLayer instanceof TextLayer)){
		alert ("Selected layer is not a text layer.");
		return;
	}
	var markerVal = new MarkerValue("");
	var mySourceText = myLayer.property("ADBE Text Properties").property("ADBE Text Document");
	var myTextDoc;
	for (var i = 1; i <= mySourceText.numKeys; i ++){
		myTextDoc = mySourceText.keyValue(i);
		if (myTextDoc.text == "") continue;
		markerVal.comment = myTextDoc.text;
		if (i < mySourceText.numKeys){
			markerVal.duration = mySourceText.keyTime(i+1) - mySourceText.keyTime(i);
		}else{
			markerVal.duration = 0;
		}
		myLayer.property("Marker").setValueAtTime(mySourceText.keyTime(i),markerVal);
	}
}
keyframesToMarkers();

[abbas seyyedi]

What if I want the opposite? For example, the markers become keyframes in the source text

[Dan Ebberts]

Something like this, probably:

function markersToKeyframes(){
	var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
	if (myComp == null || ! (myComp instanceof CompItem)){
		alert ("No comp active.");
		return;
	}
	if (myComp.selectedLayers.length == 0){
		alert ("No layer selected.");
		return;
	}
	var myLayer = myComp.selectedLayers[0];
	if ( ! (myLayer instanceof TextLayer)){
		alert ("Selected layer is not a text layer.");
		return;
	}
	var mySourceText = myLayer.property("ADBE Text Properties").property("ADBE Text Document");
	var myTextDoc = mySourceText.value;
	var myMarker = myLayer.property("Marker");
	var myMarkerVal = new MarkerValue("");
	var myMarkerTime;
	for (var i = 1; i <= myMarker.numKeys; i ++){
		myMarkerVal = myMarker.keyValue(i);
		myMarkerTime = myMarker.keyTime(i);
		myTextDoc.text = myMarkerVal.comment;
		if (myTextDoc.text == "") continue;
		mySourceText.setValueAtTime(myMarkerTime,myTextDoc)
	}
}
markersToKeyframes();

[abbas seyyedi]

Thanks Dan. I ran the code. It runs without error, but no key is added in the source text layer

[abbas seyyedi]

Let’s assume that the markers are expanded and we want to convert the beginning of the marker time into a key