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control inpoint/starttime with script
Hey, I have a script that I use as an extend script before calling some other scrits thought CLI.
This script changes the length of a composition mentioned in a json file.
it looks like this:
var myTime = $D.job.get(“time”);
var myTarget = $D.job.get(“compname”);
var start_comp = $D.job.get(“start_time1”);
var myComp;
for (var i = 1; i <= app.project.numItems; i ++) {
if ((app.project.item(i) instanceof CompItem) && (app.project.item(i).name === myTarget)) {
myComp = app.project.item(i);
break;
}
}
myComp.duration = (myTime);I want to add to control inPoint or startTime to this but it does not seem to work.
I found a way to do this like without using the data from json and with layer index
var proj = app.project;
var myComp = proj.item(1);
myComp.layer(1).startTime = 3;I want to use it like the upper example by taking the compname and my_start_time from the json. I can’t figure it out how.
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When you set the duration of the composition it is a composition object. You can’t set the startTime of a composition object. For startTime, you need a layer object. That means that first you have to put your composition inside another composition. When you have done that, you have your composition used as an AVLayer inside the second composition. Only on this one can you set the startTime.
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