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Something like this maybe


newFootageItem = app.project.importFile(new ImportOptions(File.openDialog()));
newFootageItem1 = app.project.importFile(new ImportOptions(File.openDialog()));
myCrtComp = app.project.activeItem;
var layer1 = myCrtComp.layers.add(newFootageItem);
var layer2 = myCrtComp.layers.add(newFootageItem1);
layer1.guideLayer = true;
layer1.locked = true;
layer2.guideLayer = true;
layer2.locked = true;


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I don’t think you need a script for that. You have 2 options:

1. Select the pen tool(G) and then select your layer. It also work if your layer is selected and you press G.
2. With your Selection tool(V) double click on your path in the viewer.

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I think I was not clear enough, but you gave me an idea anyway.

I had a boxText paragraph that had a pretty small width. I was afraid that some words the client may use may overextend and be broken in half.

I ended up creating an invisible text layer that had as value the longest word from the boxText.
I then created a ratio variable that was botTextWidth/longestWordWidth. And i multiplicated the font size with this ratio if it were smaller than 1.

Thank for the hint.

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Maybe you need to use the escape character before /, like this: “<\/em>”

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comp.frameDuration is how long a frame is. Basically time = 2*comp.frameDuration means second frame.

var ActiveComp = app.project.activeItem;
var frameDuration = ActiveComp.frameDuration;
var selectedLayers = ActiveComp.selectedLayers;
var numLayers = selectedLayers.length;
var currentTime = selectedLayers.time;
var time = app.project.activeItem.layer(1).time *ActiveComp.frameDuration; ;

if(numLayers == 0){
alert("Select a layer");
} else {
selectedLayers[0].property("ADBE Transform Group").property("ADBE Opacity").setValueAtTime(time,100);
selectedLayers[0].property("ADBE Transform Group").property("ADBE Opacity").setValueAtTime(time+2*frameDuration,0);
selectedLayers[0].property("ADBE Transform Group").property("ADBE Opacity").setValueAtTime(time+4*frameDuration,100);
};

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You can do this:

Add a text animator to your layer. Go to Range Selector>Advance> and change Units to Index and Based on to Lines.
Set Start to 1.

Now, if you want only second line to be moved to the right, set End to 2. If you want all your subsequent lines to go a bit to the right, set this End value to something high(the max number of lines you will ever have. Let’s say 10).

Now go to Animator 1> Position and modify the first value of the position until you are happy with the result(this will vary based on your font and font size). You should do this with a text that starts with “.

Now alt+click this Animator1>Position and add this as an expression. You need to copy-paste the double quotes inside that expression because some fonts have different in/out quotes.

text.sourceText.substring(0,1) == '“' ? value : [0,0];

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I knew they only upgraded the expression engine, not the scripting one. The question is why does filter work on some computers… On mine, it doesn’t. And it shouldn’t.

Maybe you have another script installed on some computers that uses a prototype filter() function. If a script is loaded in AE, you can use public variables and function from that inside another script. So you could even use a prototype method. That is the only scenario that i can think of.

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This would be the first expression fixed:

inPoints=[]
inPoints[1]=thisComp.layer("Layer 1").inPoint;
inPoints[2]=thisComp.layer("Layer 2").inPoint;
inPoints[3]=thisComp.layer("Layer 3").inPoint;
inPoints[4]=thisComp.layer("Layer 4").inPoint;
inPoints[5]=thisComp.layer("Layer 5").inPoint;
i=2;
lastGap=0;
sum=0;
while(inPoints[i]

And this would be a neat way to do it.
Put all those sequenced layers one after another in the timeline.init must be the index of the first one, layersNumber must be the nuber of the layers. The commented part of row 12 is the average. If you need the average, just take that commented text and replace the one in front.

init=3;//first layer of the sequence
layersNumber = 5 ;//The number of layers for the sequence
i=init+1;
lastGap=1;
sum=0;
while(thisComp.layer(i).inPoint

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Im on the phone, so that may get some things wrong but here is the idea:

inPoints[1]=thisComp.layer("Layer 1").inPoint*50;
inPoints[2]=thisComp.layer("Layer 2").inPoint*50;
inPoints[3]=thisComp.layer("Layer 3").inPoint*50;
inPoints[4]=thisComp.layer("Layer 4").inPoint*50;
inPoints[5]=thisComp.layer("Layer 5").inPoint*50;
i=2;
lastGap=0;
sum=0;
while(inPoints[i]

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Cu placere!
Spor la animat!

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