Image sequence file name burn-in

[Peter O’connell]

Hi Sacha, you could try something like this on a text layer directly above the sequence. It might need to be adjusted depending on the padding and the frame rate.
Bonne Chance, la.


function pad(number, length) {

var str = '' + number;
while (str.length < length) { str = '0' + str; } return str; } var theLayerName = thisComp.layer(index+1).name; var theLayerNameSplit = theLayerName.split('.'); theLayerNameSplit[0] + '.' + pad((time*24),4) + '.tiff';

Rogue Keyframe
Feature Film Compositing

[Sacha Sojic]

Thank you both!

Peter, I’ll give your expression a try and let you know how it went.

Glad to meet two people that are familiar with Montreal and French Canadian culture. One’s making references to our theme parks and the other is dispensing everyday colloquialisms! Nice! 😉

Best,

S. Sojic

[Sacha Sojic]

Peter, the expression works wonders. Thanks a million.

Sacha

[Peter O’connell]

Pas’d probleme mon chum.
Pete

Rogue Keyframe
Feature Film Compositing

[Steve Kellener]

Pretty awesome script Peter. I can’t seem to figure out how to have it start on frame 1 rather than frame zero though.

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Steve Kellener

Digital Compositor
Titmouse, Inc.

[Michael Swingler]

Peter,

I tried your expression and it’s picking up the filename and overlaying it, but there’s only one file name for the imported sequence of stills that AE assigns to it.

I have a series of stills named:
875G3051.jpg
875G3052.jpg
875G3053.jpg
875G3054.jpg

But when I import these as a jpeg sequence, AE creates an asset called 875G{3051-3056}.jpg and this is the only file name burned to the image for every frame.

I tried importing the stills separately and dropping them in as separate layers and doing the sequence layer command. However, since they’re on separate layers, the expression only picks up the first image/layer and repeats.

Is there a solution I’m missing? Any help would be appreciated.
Mike