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Dan Ebberts
June 2, 2023 at 9:20 pmYes, unfortunately. You might be able to simplify somewhat with a clever naming convention. For example, if you named your flash layers “Flash 1”, “Flash 2”, etc. and your control layers “Control 1”, “Control 2”, etc. then you could do something like this in the Flash expression so it would be the same for every layer:
myNum = name.split(" ")[1];
segStartTime = thisComp.layer("Control " + myNum).effect("Slider Control")("Slider");You could do a similar thing with the audio expression.
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RP Koop
June 7, 2023 at 8:31 pmThis has been working really well but I’ve noticed with time remapping (the audio) all I’m getting now are the keyframes of the couple of seconds of sound file. The ‘object’ no longer appears, meaning: I can’t drag drag the right edge so the layer duration matches the comp. because there’s nothing to drag. Just the key frames. So it sounds once but that’s it. I’ve tried restarting AE but doesn’t help. Is this a limitation of AE? Thanks
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Dan Ebberts
June 7, 2023 at 9:13 pmI’m sorry, can you post a screen shot that shows what’s happening?
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RP Koop
June 7, 2023 at 9:45 pmposted. As you can see with prob1, there’s nothing to drag to achieve the condition in normal 1 where the green bar extends all the way across (because I was able to drag the right-hand side of the sound ‘object’.
Prob 1 only lets me see the two key frames.
Its like AE is having trouble. I have about 300 working properly and about 100 that only let me hear the sound once despite the Time Remap applied.
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RP Koop
June 7, 2023 at 9:53 pmIt applies to all the tracks after a certain point. They just remain grey.
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Dan Ebberts
June 8, 2023 at 12:02 amI have no explanation for that. Maybe someone else will chime in…
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RP Koop
June 8, 2023 at 9:36 amafter a long search I was led back to creative cow again, here:
https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/after-effects-layer-bars-not-showing-up-on-part-of/
problem solved. Thanks
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