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create comp, create shape, import file and add track matte.
Everything works fine except one little issue. I want the shape to be created first. then add the file and add a track matte.
var myComp = proj.items.addComp(“Logo”, 500, 600, 1, 10, 25);
var shapeLayer = myComp.layers.addShape();
var shapeGroup = shapeLayer.property(“Contents”).addProperty(“ADBE Vector Group”);
shapeGroup.property(“Contents”).addProperty(“ADBE Vector Shape – Ellipse”);
shapeGroup.property(“Contents”).addProperty(“ADBE Vector Graphic – Stroke”);
shapeGroup.property(“Contents”).addProperty(“ADBE Vector Graphic – Fill”);var io = new ImportOptions(File(“filepath”));
var proj = app.project;
var imp = proj.importFile(io);
imp;myComp.layers.add(imp);
myComp.layers[2].trackMatteType = TrackMatteType.ALPHA_INVERTED;
Even though I’ve put it in order. Top to bottom, which I always thought was the logic of this. I don’t understand why it’s adding the image first, then creates the shape layer.
Any thoughts?
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3 Replies
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Not the way I want to do it, but if anyone has a better idea. This is how I’ve gotten around it.
myComp.layers[2].moveBefore(myComp.layer(1));
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Hello Scott
If you add a layer to a comp with script it always add it on top of the other layers.
In this case you add the shape layer and it is index 1. Then you add the image and it will be added on top of the other layer.
The easiest solution is to first add the image and then the shape layer.
Hope that helps.
Andreas -
I am an idiot. I thought I had done it the way you had suggested and realised my
myComp.layers.add(imp);
was sat under the shape layer. So no matter how many times I was moving the other half up and under the add shape. It was never going to fix it.
Plus it didn’t help in my head that it adds it too the top, which makes absolute sense.
layer 1
layer1
layer2(previously layer1)Thank you
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