expression for showing layer marker text

[Paperinik]

Oh, I’m sorry. I’ve confused layer marker with layer number.

Paperinik

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Thanks.

What I get is “Oject Marker property” instead of text.

So that’s the problem, right?

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[Dan Ebberts]

That’s it.

Dan

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Aharon,

the Markers don’t happen to be called just 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc ?
or “scene 1”, “scene 2″…

if so, this hack can help:


l=thisComp.layer(2); // pickwhip your markerlayer.

prefix = "scene ";
min=1;
max=110;

resultText="";

for (i=min;i<=max;i++) { try { markerText=prefix+i; m=l.marker.key(markerText); if (m.time>time) {
resultText=markerText;
// if you're sure they're numbered correctly (1 2 3), you can enable the break
// break;
}
} catch(e) {}
}

resultText;


Also a script would probably not be affected by the bug, or usefull assistants might have a script.

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Hi Filip-

Yes – They are simply 1 2 3

Unfortunatley, I couldn’t get this to work. I don’t beleive I’m setting this up correctly or pasting the code in properly.

Can I ask you to post an example of this maybe with a text layer and a solid containing some markers, just to see how it should be arranged.

Thanks for all of your help.

And Dan thank you too. You’re always a huge help.

Aharon

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aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com

[Dan Ebberts]

Aharon,

If they’re just numbered sequentially, this expression for source text will give the number of the most recent marker:

L = thisComp.layer(“audio layer”);

n = 0;
if (L.marker.numKeys > 0){
n = L.marker.nearestKey(time).index;
if (L.marker.key(n).time > time){
n–;
}
}
if (n==0)”” else n

Dan

[Filip Vandueren]

Luckily you have people in different timezones working on this 😉

anyway there was an error in there of course (was getting late for me…)

here’s the correct code:

l=thisComp.layer(2); // pickwhip your markerlayer.

prefix = “scene “;
min=0;
max=110;

resultText=””;

for (i=min;i<=max;i++) { try { markerText=prefix+i; m=l.marker.key(markerText); if ((m.timehttps://users.telenet.be/vandueren//forumstuff/seqmarkertexthack.aep

[Mike Clasby]

After Effects warning: Expected: ).
Error occured on line 13.
Expression disabled.

This line, methinks:

if ((m.time resultText=markerText;

I tried subbing in two lines (below) from your first expression for the one above, these seemed logical (hacker’s logic), it wasn’t broken then, but still no text appears, I did the pickwhip to the layer with the markers and the expression is on the Source Text stopwatch of a Text layer:

if (m.time>time) {
resultText=markerText;

I need to upgrade so I can see the aep, me bad.

[Filip Vandueren]

Shoot,

it’s an html related error, if you look at the source code of the page (or the emails) you’ll see it’s there, it doesn’t show up, that happens with > and <, symbols: html thinks it's a tag so it doesn't show up. anyway here it is again HTML encoded (this will look like gibberish in the auto-reply emails: l=thisComp.layer(2); // pickwhip your markerlayer. prefix = "scene "; min=0; max=110; resultText=""; for (i=min;i<=max;i++) { try { markerText=prefix+i; m=l.marker.key(markerText); if ((m.time<time)) { resultText=markerText; // break; } } catch(e) {} } resultText;

[Mike Clasby]

Thanks for the comeback. I still can’t get it to work for me, but I’ll just keep a lookout for an Aharon response and if he’s good to go, then I’ll know I’m doing something basic, wrong.