[Charlie Leroy]

Hello Chris,
If I understood correctly you have your stroke going from 0% to 100% and the text layer is following the “moving tip” of the stroke. is that correct?

if it is, then you can do this;
you know the First margin starts and the first margin finish

this should make your text starts and finish at the same time as the stroke appears ( if both the path and the stroke are the same obviously)
on the First margin value
//initial margin value
var x=1641;
//final margin value
var y= 3086;
//the End trim percentage
var z= thisComp.layer("Shape Layer 1").content("Trim Paths 1").end;
//cross product
value =z*(y-x)/100+x

hope it helps.

[Charlie Leroy]

Hey Nicholas!
what kind of calculations do you have to do?

[Charlie Leroy]

hey, thanks for your help,
what does AS mean?
The thing is the new version of the footage would be named with an incremented version. like name_v01 name_v02 name_v03 etc…
so PPro would have to check if there is a new version available and update it.

doing this in Extenscript on AE would be fairly easy but I dont know how much I can drive PPro with Extend script.

[Charlie Leroy]

I would replace footages already added manually.
If scripting in premiere uses extends riot or something similar I could write a script to do so.
But if something exist already … Why not using it 🙂

[Charlie Leroy]

Hello Walter,
thanks a lot, that is working perfectly!
I am learning to script on the go and this notion is going to ease my life 🙂
thanks!

[Charlie Leroy]

you can also use the pathfinder properties of the shape tool,
using merge and round corner you can get something like this :
booleantest.gif

[Charlie Leroy]

Thanks Walter,
sorry for the late answer.
I am moving on on this, I managed to do the “transfert” using a 3dPointControl… and it worked 😀

so I am almost done the system is working fine.
However, I cant find a way to remove the 3D point after getting its coordinates.
to add it I use addProperty but I can not find such thing as removeProperty.
is there a function that can do this?

In general it is very difficult to find the exact syntax of the functions I want, the Object viewer is not helping at all and I can not find any reference of removing a property in JS tool guide.
did I miss some important document?

thank you for your help!

[Charlie Leroy]

I am progressing on this,
now I am able to create a Null and position it correctly on a puppet pin.
My only problem now is that If the layer(with the pins) is parented to something, I have no idea how to get the Comp coordinates ( the ones that takes in account the shift due to parenting).

I have been able to find this phrase by Dan Ebberts:

if you’re dealing with parenting, rotation and/or 3D. You may need to temporarily add a Point Control with a layer space transform expression to do the space conversion and harvest the result.

I am a bit lost here about how to do this in Script?, any hint?

thanks.