Layer In & Out Time Automation

[Andy Kiernan]

my idea was to use parenting and script, so the child matches the parents out point.

This may help you or may not go far enough, but here you are anyway.

Im no coder so i cheated and used Chatgpt!

(cant upload jsx apparently so if you want it, when you download rename it and change .txt to .jsx

select the parent and child, then run the script.

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var parentLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0]; var childLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[1]; if (parentLayer != null && childLayer != null) { childLayer.outPoint = parentLayer.outPoint; }

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[Gary Sweeney]

Hi Andy, this worked perfectly, thank you!

I was able to tweak what you had in the file to do both the in & out times using the script below.

// Get the selected parent and child layers

var parentLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0];

var childLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[1];

// Check if both layers are selected

if (parentLayer != null && childLayer != null) {

// Set the in point and out point of the child layer to match the parent layer

childLayer.inPoint = parentLayer.inPoint;

childLayer.outPoint = parentLayer.outPoint;

}

Then I was able to edit the script to look down through a mass selection and sequence through the layers to run the script multiple times using the script below.

// Get the selected layers

var selectedLayers = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers;

// Check if there are at least two layers selected

if (selectedLayers.length >= 2) {

// Loop through the selected layers in pairs

for (var i = 1; i < selectedLayers.length; i += 2) {

var parentLayer = selectedLayers[i];

var childLayer = selectedLayers[i – 1];

// Set the in point and out point of the child layer to match the parent layer

childLayer.inPoint = parentLayer.inPoint;

childLayer.outPoint = parentLayer.outPoint;

}

Thanks for sending me down the right path and saving me a lot of time.