[Chris Wright]

without stretching or dead space, all that’s left is cropping. There’s cropping expressions but they won’t know what part you deem keepable. Any auto aligning might save time too.

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[Chris Wright]

There’s 2 ways to approach this, hit ‘s’ then alt click stopwatch and paste in one of these expressions

1. forces footage to fit composition even if aspect ratio is different. Pictures can get stretched.

nominalCompWidth = width;
nominalCompHeight = height;
[value[0]*thisComp.width/nominalCompWidth,value[1]*thisComp.height/nominalCompHeight]

2. only resizes to maximum within aspect ratio limit.

if((width/height)<=((thisComp.width*thisComp.pixelAspect)/thisComp.height)) x=thisComp.height/height*100; else x=thisComp.width/width*(thisComp.pixelAspect*100); [x,x] https://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/

[Chris Wright]

I see 3 options for framerate

1. 25 to interpret 4% as 23.976 then 3:2 pulldown to 29.97

2. timewarp or twixtor interpolation or even frame blending

3. interpret as 29.97 and speed is far different.

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[Chris Wright]

script moves/nudges all Transform keyframes in all layers in all comps to the nearest exact frame for any framerate.

https://sundstedt.se/blog/?p=661

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[Chris Wright]

preferences-general, allow scripts to write files, then use this custom script I wrote. It will take the dimensions of the selected comps and add a new text layer with full date in the lower right automatically.

https://www.megaupload.com/?d=VI9NHW0T

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[Chris Wright]

I don’t believe you can ask AE the system time, file creation date, or sequence info(unless you use a new comp name + thisComp.name as a custom sequence). It’s extremely limited, hence the long code just to simply get a filename and frames. You can try asking in the expression forum though.

The free way is to use batch renaming software; shouldn’t take too long, a few seconds, then your date and time will only be off by a few seconds in the new video filename. That’s not bad right?

You should really be using metadata from professional applications for logging and organizing. AE is a composite application.

Anyway…just add another + “Insert Text Here” to the last line to manually add text.
so, frame first, then sequence comp name, then layer name, then custom text would look like this.

timeToCurrentFormat(time) + ” ” + thisComp.name + ” ” + txt + ” ” + “Insert Text Here”

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[Chris Wright]

The cc simple wire remover can use its “slope” to get around small curves, but 180 curves require more duplicates.

[Chris Wright]

I don’t think a normal keyer will work, but Primatte with plug holes set really high worked good. Almost everything on a person is grey…try my saturation project. turn off the blur and see if you can get a good track matte from it. Also, another option, autotrace will keep groups of color selected.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/50/857313

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[Chris Wright]

This source text layer has to be right above the footage for it to work. At the splice point of a new layer, it will update the name automatically.

Also, set file project settings to frames. You can also get the date of the file if the clip was captured with the date in the filename or use a simple parsing expression after using batch renamer software. Premiere’s plugin might be an option too.
https://www.dvmp.co.uk

Then, it’s just a matter of adding another +. Good luck to you.

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 = L.source.name; }catch(err1){ txt = L.name } break; } } txt + " " + timeToCurrentFormat(time) https://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/

[Chris Wright]

give yourself a cow button, and if you want, for easier control, divide the slider by 5 or something so you can easily animate without your mouse slipping around.

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