Hey John, thanks for the suggestion!

I just gave that a try using both n and r and \n and \r, and before creating the marker, but sadly it still doesn’t work in AE 2025. The line breaks just get flattened into a space, and the comment shows up as one long line, even in the popup or when read through expressions.

Seems like AE 2025 is stripping…

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Hi all, been banging my head on this one and hoping someone can help.

I have a script that copies markers from one layer to another. It works perfectly in <strong data-start=”448″ data-end=”470″>After Effects 2024, but in <strong data-start=”479″ data-end=”501″>After Effects 2025, there’s a single issue: <strong data-start=”527″ data-end=”572″>line…

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Yeah very odd.
On deeper looks, it may be that it is some issue with using OS Ventura. Maybe some kind of read and write issue where it is not storing the info from the last time I closed it… So far all adobe apps have access on all parts as far as I can see.

Hi all, I have never had this issue before.
Moved to new Mac Studio this month, everything works as should.
But when I try and export any project it always defaults to ‘not yet specified’ on output.
I have it always default with ‘Comp Name’, and the location is always set on the main mac drive, so there is no external drive issues, and it always…

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Hi, I like Grahams explanation, but with it also including transparency on the layer prior to it changing I think from what I can see, I would suggest this is how it was done, and a bit more simple way.
1) Create the text your want the end result to look like with words coloured as needed. The demo also shows a drop shadow, so add that as well if…

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Hi folks,

is there a scripting way to have a popup that you can input a word, lets say “cat”, and then it checks all markers based on the active layers you had selected in the timeline, and when it finds “cat” or say if the marker comment said “This is a cat”, it would move the timeline player-head to the start of that marker?
And maybe also if you…

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Wow very sorry I only just seen this reply.
Sadly that does not work as all layers shift left/right together.
If you have had success your end, I would love to see a demo of how you did it.

So, I have a long talking head video all cut up, and can see/hear that the audio is out of sync by -5 frames.
A normal process in my mind would be to just select all audio layers and use the slip tool to slide it -5 frames (keyboard shortcut also used with shift+alt+ctrl(cmd)+left/right arrow), but when doing so if any audio layers are directly…

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Hi, is there a way to modify the color of a marker based on two layers having the same marker in the same location but the text inside is different?

Example. If I had two identical layers with markers at the same points, and inside had the same text content, but later on the second layers markers text content inside some of the markers have…

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Hi, I have searched about but have not found what I need.

In After Effects I do documentary projects that are over an hour long, and always fear for an error or power cut with a 10 hour render time export.

I would like to know if there is a script that you can input a splitting number and then the script will split up the full render into small…

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Hi Dan or anyone who can assist a little more.
Everything is great, but wanted to know if there is also a way to add duration of each created marker to extend it’s length until the next following text source keyframe?

I would venture a guess that there needs to be an If function to check if there is a next keyframe to counter an error for the very…

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Hi Ann,
How can you say “you won’t find the answer because the kbsc does not exist.” when that is the answer.. My question was to confirm if there was or was not a keyboard shortcut for what I wanted, and I can now after researching elsewhere see there is not, and no coding way around it also sadly.
My reference was that instead of getting a clear…

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Hi Chris, thanks for the link, I read that a while ago and is a nice read, but does not provide the answer I need, it’s just an article of an editors top 24 keyboard shortcuts that does not contain a resolve to my question.

Am I going mad here 😱?
Is there no keyboard shortcut to select a clip above or below the current active clip in the selected track?

You can CMD + ⬆ CMD + ⬇ to select the next clip left or right in the same active track, but is there really no way to select a clip above or below with a keyboard shortcut?

The great Jeff Almasol made a free script called <b itemprop=”name” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>rd: Scooter: https://aescripts.com/rd-scooter/
which in one part you can shift all markers of a selected layer by increments of 1 or 10 frames forwards or backwards.

I have some projects where I have many markers on one layer, and…

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Fantastic, thank you again Dan.

Thank you Dan! Your works are just great. This worked perfectly.
One more thing if I may, I have only just noticed some Source text keyframes were purposely made empty/Blank/containing not text, is there a line of code you can add to check that if the Keyframe is empty, to ignore making a marker and move onto the next one?

Hi CC, I have a very long project that on top layer has a single text layer that contains 100’s of Source text keyframes (used for subtitles).

I am looking for a way/script that would take the selected text layer in the active comp, add a marker point on the same frame as the source text keyframe, and then copy the text in that keyframe and paste…

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Thank you again Filip, code works beautifully and I added some sliders for the padding and rounding. Also that link is a really nice read so far, thanks for that.
This opens many new doors for me. 🙏 – Craig

Hi Filip,
That is fantastic.
One more question if I may Filip;
if I wanted do to the same, but have the corners curved/rounded, would that be possible?
I would now guess you add in 4 extra points and space them out a small amount and then code in some kind of Bend between two points, maybe linked to a slider of some sort to adjust the bend/curve amount.

Hi, I am looking for if possible, a way to have have a mask in a text layer always match the width and height of said text, and also the text will change over time.
I have seen some talk on linking mask points to positions of other things like nulls, but nothing solid that I can see that would link corner of a point to the top corner of source…

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Dan! Perfect! Thank you soo much!

Hi all,
I tried searching with no luck, so hopefully someone can assist.

I have seen expressions linked to markers with set names “In””Out”, but I would like an expression that would be something like:
Start and for the duration of markers length, layer opacity = 100%.
After marker ends, opacity = 0%.

So that the gap in-between the end of the last…

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Hi, so for some time on my main work computer, whenever I for example add Fill to a solid layer, and then go to select a color of choice, the main Comp window does not do a live preview of the color’s I am scrolling through (see attached vid) even though Preview is checked.
This also is effecting any color picker for any effect, like Gradient…

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Hi, how did you get the last link to work? Comes up error when I try it as is or removing the f1. at the start.