[Caleb Armstrong]

Heh. . .I thought it was more akin to the “We had the intern do it” shuffle.

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[Caleb Armstrong]

Thanks for the quick reply, Dave. I was able to get in touch with somebody who had a bit more of a clue as to what was going on in the clip. I was told that when it was edited it was, indeed, assembled in final cut and that the animation was built in 30fps and that the footage was 24p. They’re looking to see if they can find the archive of the original assets so that I can take a look at everything. I kind of chided the guy I spoke to about why I wasn’t given all the assets in the first place and he muttered something about me not needing them and how much money they were willing to pay, etc. Regardless, I was able to get a little bit more information out of this guy.

Now, the MOV file that I was given plays fine in QT – everything looks smooth. When I render out of AE, that’s when the issues come into play. I say “frame rate issues” because of the choppy nature of the footage after I’ve output the clip; people’s movements aren’t smooth, camera movements are choppy, etc. I’m certain that it could be any one of a hundred other things, but I was kind of shooting from the hip since, at one frame rate the animation played fine but the live action stuff was choppy and vice versa. But, again the frame rate thing tends to confuse me a bit, so it’s likely that I’m just not grasping something basic.

cheers

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[Caleb Armstrong]

Odd. I’m using Firefox and those characters aren’t getting picked up. I fired up Safari and was able to see the full code.

Now it works great. Awesome. Thank you so much!

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[Caleb Armstrong]

This is what I have:

{
var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var n = myComp.numLayers;
var myLayers = [];
var myIdx = [];
for (var i = 1; i
myIdx[i-1] = i;
myLayers[i-1] = myComp.layer(i);
}

var idx;
var temp;
for (var i = 0; i
idx = i + Math.floor(Math.random()*(myIdx.length – i));
temp = myIdx[i];
myIdx[i] = myIdx[idx];
myIdx[idx] = temp;
}
for (var i = 0; i
myLayers[myIdx[i]-1].moveToBeginning();
}
}

As I mentioned, this is my first experiment in trying to use a script, so I’m sure that I’m not implementing it correctly but I figured I’d ask about the script first.

Thanks again.

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[Caleb Armstrong]

This is my first experience with scripts. I have over one hundred photos that I’m making into a slideshow for a client. I am using CS4. I tried using the above script but am not having luck with it. I am getting an “Expected: ;” error and when I debug in the javascript editor it tells me that the error(s) start on line 7 myIdx[i-1] = i;

Will this script run in CS4? If not, how can I alter it so that it will?

Thanks for the help.

cheers.

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[Caleb Armstrong]

Thanks for the advice guys. I really appreciate it!

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[Caleb Armstrong]

Thanks for the info Bob!

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[Caleb Armstrong]

Thanks for the advice, Joe.

I ended up doing this exact thing. I remapped the speed a bit so that the dissolve wasn’t as noticeable.

Thanks again, I really appreciate the input!

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[Caleb Armstrong]

QFT

Ramen.

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[Caleb Armstrong]

Thanks for the reply, Walt.

I played around with it some more re-edited the one sequence and everything seemed to match fine.

Thanks again.

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