Remove unnamed marks via script

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Kina, yes.

You need to cycle through all markers, read the value of “comment” in the marker and if its empty – delete them.

The way how to access composition markers or layer markers is a bit different – thus let us know where the markers are (whether its at the top of composition or on a specific layer).

[Andrei Popa]

As Tomas said, there are 2 different approaches for layer/comp markers.

If the markers are on a layer, you can select it and run this snippet

var crtLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0];
var markers = crtLayer.marker;
for(var i = markers.numKeys; i>0; i--){
    if(markers.keyValue(i).comment == "") markers.removeKey(i)
}

If the markers are on the composition, select it or a layer inside it and run this snippet:

var crtComp = app.project.activeItem;
var markers = crtComp.markerProperty;
for(var i = markers.numKeys; i>0; i--){
    if(markers.keyValue(i).comment == "") markers.removeKey(i)
}

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Andrei – do you happen to know why they are different btw? As I always fail to remember which is which and have to dig through the resources, haha!

[Andrei Popa]

As far as I know, they are different because Adobe introduced the ability to access comp markers a few years later. The only big difference for us, the users, is that the markers for layers are accessed through layer.marker and the comp markers are accessed through comp.markerProperty. The result of these 2 calls is the same property type, so I assume we can treat them the same way.

[Kina Sa]

It works! Thank you very much