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Shape Layers: Pasting into Group 1 (instead of creating new one)
Dear expression heroes,
I already posted this Question in the regular After Effects Forum
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1143758
but I have the feeling that there is no earthly answer to this:I have 100 Shape Layers on my Comp containing various pathes.
In the top layer I added a Trim Paths-function and animated it with an expression in the exsiting Group 1 (expression doesn’t makes a difference to keyframes).
Now I copy the Trim Paths and want to paste it into the 99 remaining shape layers in my comp.
How do I paste into the Group 1 of all these 99 layers without opening them up separatly?
Now pasting just creates a Group 2 wich isn’t of course affecting the animation at all…
I want to prevent a tideous and timconsuming workflow.
So I wonder:
Is there – for example – a script that is showing the copied content the right way to the desired destination? Like pasting Opacity-values from one layer to another wich happens automatically?Or – if I paste the copied content into a text document it looks like this:
Adobe After Effects 8.0 Keyframe DataUnits Per Second 25
Source Width 1
Source Height 1
Source Pixel Aspect Ratio 1
Comp Pixel Aspect Ratio 1Contents Group #1 Contents Trim Paths #3 End
Frame percent
100Expression Data
splitName = name.split(" ");
tStart = framesToTime(parseInt(splitName[2],10));
tEnd = framesToTime(parseInt(splitName[3],10));
linear(time,tStart,tEnd,0,100)
End of Expression DataEnd of Keyframe Data
Could in there be added any code to make it work?I hope you understand… Thank you so much in advance!
SebastianSebastian Martinez
CGI-Designer
Cologne, Germany
AE, AI, PS, 3ds max, C4d -
1 Reply
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okay, I’m replying to my own post. I found kind of a strange work around:
1. Copy the group-item you wish to paste (if allready arranged in another comp, in my case the Trim function with some expressions)
2. Select the Shape Layers you want to paste into
3. Type “group 1” (or the specific group you want to toggle) into the search dialog of the timeline-window and press enter. Now that group is revealed in all selected Shape Layers
4. Select these opened groups by click-dragging over all of them (start that in the free space between the opened layers)
5. Just paste. That Content is now pasted directly into that group without creating a new one
Thats not working at lightspeed but just about lightspeed
Best wishes to you all
SebastianSebastian Martinez
CGI-Designer
Cologne, Germany
AE, AI, PS, 3ds max, C4d
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