Hi Hector
Thanks a lot for replying.
Sorry for replying so late. I was on a journey for some days.
I actually closed and restarted and tested on another computer.
The script works fine until

var duration = 5344

from

var duration = 5345
or higher, there is this hanging and the bar doesn´t disappear.

Very strange.
Do you know how other people implement…

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Hi
I am trying to write a simple progress bar script, to use in my other scripts.

// Function to update the progress bar
function updateProgressBar(value, max) {
var progressBarWindow = new Window("palette", "Progress", undefined);
var progressBar = progressBarWindow.add("progressbar", undefined, 0,…

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Hi there
When I create lower third templates for premiere, there is this handy responsive time feature which works when there is no animation after the animate-in and before the animate-out.
But how can I do a proper template when lets say the background of that lower third is drifting or evolving constantly and I dont want that “middlepart” to…

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Hallo Dan

Thanks so much, works perfect again.

Meanwhile I had figured out this far less elegant way;)

I used try{} and ended with the index of the layer.

p = thisProperty;
for (i=0; typeof(layerIndex) != "number"; i++){
    try{layerIndex = p.propertyGroup(i).index;
    }catch(e){};
}

I will change my expression to your way…

Hi there.
In Scripting there is this elegant method to find a layer of a property by

property.propertyGroup(property.propertyDepth)

I dont find anything like this for the usage in expressions, because propertyDepth doesnt seem to work here. Any solutions?

Short question, is that pointOnPath() function for expressions also available for scripting somehow? The only chance I see is by creating an layer with that expression and harvesting the result.

And an associated question: Is it possible via expression or script to get the opposite of that pointOnPath() function. You feed in a specific Point or a…

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Hi Filip
Thanks for the nice approach. Good to know that other people struggle with the same issue:)

For me it really degrades the use of that effect a bit and I will try to use turbulent distort instead when possible.

But when you need to use it a lot in a project here is what you can do:
Create in the “MasterComp” of the project an Null named…

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i think instead of the loop function you need a modulo.

so replace the loopout with something like

s= s%72 – 72

not exacly sure what you really want but this may help

Hi Sandra
This should work:

x = 2; // in Seconds

seedRandom(Math.floor(x*time),true);

[random(1920),random(1080)];

Hi Tomas
Yes indeed. Different render resolutions look different.
I had a 4k project sending HD files to the customer as a preview, they look even different from my half HD preview working space, but the difference was not too much.
For the final render in 4K it really looked bad in my eyes.
Kind of silly. The turbulent distort effect for example does…

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Is there an expression to get the actual preview resolution? The effect “roughen edges” depends from the preview resolution and so final renders can look completely different.
(I dont know any other effect with that behaviour)
With such an expression you could feed the scale slider of that effect to achieve at least similar results.

Did this happen to you? I recently had a 4k projekt, previewing everything in half HD most of the time.
Then in the final render some layers that were roughen with roughen edges look completely different (a way smaller noise texture creates the effect). The effect depends from the actual resolution of the preview. I dont know any other effect with…

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Hello again.
An interesting question I guess.
If you set the expression of opacity of an whole layer to zero via expression, the layer doesnt seem to steal any CPU Power.
The same thing doesn’t work for groups in shape layers. If you set that groups opacity to zero, the group still is calculated and steals performance.
The only thing what helps is…

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thanks, good to know.
Just to make it clear. With your suggestion you mean by hand, dont you?
I guess it is not possible to put the first selected pin via script to the top of the stack, because the script will never know which one is the first selected one?

I hoped I could edit my post, but I can’t
I think I was not clear.
Its just this: When I address selected layers via script, I can simply address for example the layer I selected first by “selectedLayers[0]”

This doesn’t seem to work for properties.
“selectedProperties[0]” doesn’t give me the first selected property, but the first one in the…

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Hi There
With

var actItem = app.project.activeItem;

var selLayers = actItem.selectedLayers;

var selProps = selLayers[0].selectedProperties;

var upperP = selProps[4];

var lowerP = selProps[3];

var handP = selProps[2];

I try to select specific puppet Pins via script.

But it seems that the order of the selection is…

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wow, this compound arithmetic thing i did not know. i will check it out.

precomping will of course also work, but as i am building kind of preset stuff for others to copy comps and change text easily, its not the best option. you would also need to use something like true comp duplicator for not overwriting existing stuff.

yeah, thanks for this, Trent Armstrong, always good to know if something is not possible.
But the solution you suggest means one textanimator for each kerning change you want to apply?
Because I dont see a way to change the kerning of several letters with one textanimator, am I right?

Hi people!
I use this:

text = thisComp.layer(“textlayer”).text.sourceText

text.style.setText(text)

to copy all text related attributes from one text layer to another.
But the individual spacing between two letters (the one you create while the cursor sits somewhere and you press alt and the arrow keys) isn´t linked this way.
Is there a way to link this…

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