[Dan Ebberts]

I haven’t tested this stuff, so there may be errors, but basically it’s like this. Finding a specific comp in the project window is kind of clunky, but you can do it like this:

var compName = “xxxx”; //comp name goes here
var myProject = app.project;
var n = myProject.numItems;
var foundIt = false;
var i;
for (i=1; i<=n; i++){ if (myProject.item(i).name == compName){ var myComp = myProject.item(i); break; } } Finding a layer in a comp is pretty much the way you do it in expressions: var layerName = "yyyy"; //layer name goes here var myLayer = myComp.layer(layerName); Getting the length of a layer's source text would look like this: var mySourceText = myLayer.text.sourceText; var mySourceTextLen = mySourceText.len; Hope that's helpful. Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Sorry, I don’t think so.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

I’ve never tried it, but I don’t think you can do it. If you figure out a way, let us know!

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Try this:

P = thisComp.layer(“Camera 1”).position;
[P[0],P[1],value[2]]

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Try this:

P = thisComp.layer(“Camera 1”).position;
[P[0],P[1],value[2]]

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

>I might post a sample when I have got it working with real footage

Please do.

Glad it worked out for you!

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

>I might post a sample when I have got it working with real footage

Please do.

Glad it worked out for you!

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

One thing I do is apply the expression to a slider or text layer and comment out everything after the variable I want to track. Not great, but it works.

Dan