Script to turn on/off all layers…

[Kevin Camp]

you might check out this script (watch the tutorial to see if it will do what you need):
https://aescripts.com/zorro-the-layer-tagger/

aenhancers.com may have something too.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Tom Ma]

Thanks Kevin.. yep, I posted in aeenhancers as well.
also looked at zorro.. it is good, but cannot operate project wide, only active comp it seems.

seems like a pretty common thing.

[Walter Soyka]

[Tom Masters] “I have multiple translations of the same info and would love an easy way to flip them on/off. My layers are color coded.”

I think pt_TextEdit [link] will do what you want — if you use tags in layer comments instead of (or in addition to) the label colors.

Walter Soyka
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[Tom Ma]

thanks Walter.. and great script. I tried the demo, however some of the layers are not text, rather images related to the other language.

I haven’t found anything that will work.. kinda surprised it has never come up.. seems like a common type of task.

[Tom Ma]

I did find this script (below) it turns off all guide layers project wide.

now if I could only change the script to turn off all layers of a certain label color, rather than guide layers.

for (var h=1; h <= app.project.numItems; h++)
if (app.project.item(h) instanceof CompItem)
for (var i=1; i <= app.project.item(h).numLayers; i++)
if (app.project.item(h).layer(i).guideLayer) app.project.item(h).layer(i).enabled = false;

(& obviously I could change = false to = true to turn the layers back on.)