[Dan Ebberts]

I think we need more info. Is your pre-comp the same length as the comp it’s nested in? If so, you have to set some keyframes around the area you want to loop and delete the last one that AE added when you turned on time remapping.

If your pre-comp is shorter than your main comp and you want to loop the entire pre-comp, after you enable time remapping you have to extend the duration of the pre-comp with the little slider gizmo, set a keyframe at one frame before the last keyframe that AE added and change the value of the last keyframe to zero to get a perfect loop. I’m assuming you’re using the “cycle” flavor of loopOut().

Dan

[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]

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