[Amy Young]

Hmm. I redid it all with my boyfriend, so I had another pair of eyes that I wasn’t doing something goofy, like mouse upside down, and seemed okay.

I never did figure it out. I just restarted after trashing preferences and rebooting 4 times when the %$#@!*& barometric pressure was rising, and it was okay.

Really odd!

[Amy Young]

Useful to me also! Thanks!

[Amy Young]

My workaround is a Perl script I wrote that parses the FCP exported XML file, and returns a plain text list of all sequences in a PPro project. It requires that Perl be installed and a person is comfortable with shell commands. And also willing to do things outside of PPro. It would be great if Adobe would add some more basic things people have been asking for years.

I also need this feature. Perhaps it’s in the latest version, but I don’t want to update in the middle of my project.

I am also editing a feature-length doc with lots of material, and getting information out of PPro is clunkly. I cannot seem to find a way to right-click someplace and get “Show in Finder” the current project. Yes, I can navigate to it, but with many folders, it’s a hassle.

[Amy Young]

I somehow have the “incoming hold” on some keyframes, but I can’t replicate it or even guess what my steps were. Very puzzling. Toggling the keyframes, deleting and replacing, putting different types of keyframes in front before creating…nothing I do makes a “incoming hold,” on purpose or by accident.

[Amy Young]

Hi Blaise,

Yes, I checked that there are no effects applied to the nested piece in the container sequence. Thanks!

[Amy Young]

I also wish there were such a feature, something like “Keep the warp/scale settings HERE for n seconds of the clip….”

One thing I do to get frames to line up (as best I can) is to work a while in “Difference” mode for the transparency setting for the “top” layer. I got the idea from stop-motion software. It helps you see what has changed between two frames.

[Amy Young]

I also found your explanation the most useful. Thanks!

[Amy Young]

Still very useful — thanks Dan!

[Amy Young]

Thanks for the summary of steps.

I think I can make a Frankenscript out of:

a) Make new comp with new attributes and include selected item:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/24401

b) A reduced version of this souped-up smart import:
https://aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2479

what I like about this is that 1) I can enter a fps at import stage, since I can’t find where to change the default 30fps to something else, and 2) I don’t have to click Open each time — the script’s Open File dialog stays open.

c) Notes from Dan’s Motionscript:
https://www.motionscript.com/ae-scripting/pre-comp-to-layer-dur.html

If I get it working, I will post here. I know, just doing them by hand will probably be faster than writing something, but I like scripting. 😀

[Amy Young]

Small update to show the active layer’s number, rather than source name . (I have a clip that appears in a few places on different layers, so having the layer number is more useful for me in one case…) Thanks Dan!

txt = "";
for (j = 1; j <= thisComp.numLayers; j++){
if (j == index) continue;
L = thisComp.layer(j);
if (! (L.hasVideo && L.active)) continue;
if (time >= L.inPoint && time < L.outPoint){
try{
txt = "Layer " + L.index;
}catch(err1){
txt = L.name // L.source.name
}
break;
}
}
txt