[David Cabestany]

Thanks Walter,

None of that is happening on my comp. And on the AE 2021 Draft 3D is off by default. If I turn it on then everything looks all wonky.

[David Cabestany]

Can you elaborate a little? I’m having the same problem and I’m not entirely sure what do you mean by “manually sampling the noisy hair”

Thanks.

[David Cabestany]

Yes, I restarted the program a few times now but does not seem to help. Somebody suggested that I copy everything to a new empty scene but I’m not sure if that will help or just break something else. It’s not a super complex scene but I have layers, stage objects, guides, etc.

[David Cabestany]

Apparently, there’s something on my project causing this. I just tried a new scene with just a cube in it and the preview range works as expected.

[David Cabestany]

Yes, I also agree that that is was it’s supposed to be happening but alas, it’s not.

Here’s my exact problem, I have a 15second long 24fps animation, that’s 360 frames. I changed the units to SMPTE so I could see seconds and frames on the timeline and not frames, it’s easier for me to time the animation properly that way.

I’m trying to limit the preview range to play only from roughly 3:11 to 7:06 (83-174F).

When I press play not only does the animation plays through the range mentioned above, but when it reaches the last frame of the range (174F) it continues to play forward, it does not loop back to the beginning of the range (83F). Further, when it reaches the end of the animation it starts all over from the very beginning, not the start of the preview range.

It’s as if I hadn’t set a preview range at all. I wonder if there’s a preference or setting that instructs the software to completely disregard the preview range and just play the entire thing every time.

[David Cabestany]

“Enter the preview times in the preview range on the timeline.”

That sets the beginning and the end of the project, not the preview. It could work as a workaround but it’s not an ideal way to work.

“Or drag the handles.”

I’m trying that and is not working, it just keeps playing after.

Thanks for replying, I’m not trying to dismiss your advice, it’s just not solving the problem I have.

[David Cabestany]

Hi Dan, somehow I missed your reply. I thought nobody had answered.

Yes, sorry, I posted the expression with a typo. Sorry about that.

This is the expression that used to work and doesn’t anymore:

—-

p=thisComp.layer(“name of the layer”).active;

if

(p==1)

{0}

else

{100};

——-

If I invert the values it doesn’t work either, but it does not return an error.

Thanks.

[David Cabestany]

Yes, that’s initially what I did, copied it as flat text and added the jsx extension, I can see it in my list of scripts inside AE but it returns the error immediately after I try to run it. I then tried open the script editor from within AE, after you mentioned that, assuming it would probably fix/complete whatever is missing in order to have it run in Ae but I can’t launch it anymore.

Adobe moved to a thing called VS Code now in replacement of EXtendscript, but it’s waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay beyond my abilities to even understand what’s going on.

If you have time to send the link it would be appreciated but if not don’t sweat it, I’ll manage freezing the layers by hand.

Thanks.

[David Cabestany]

use this:

——

L = text.sourceText.length;

sp=thisComp.layer(“xp”).effect(“Speed”)(“Slider”);

st=thisComp.layer(“xp”).effect(“Start At”)(“Slider”);

PT = time – thisLayer.inPoint;

T = PT*sp-st*sp;

F = Math.round(PT % 1);

if(F == 1 | (T<L & T>0) )

{Fl = “|”}

else{Fl =””;}

substr(0,T) + Fl

———-

Whatever you want to use you just replace it in the variable Fl, but it will have to be a character value (a letter, symbol or number), you can’t use a png or other type of object.

sp and st determine the speed of your writing text and at what time it is supposed to begin.

[David Cabestany]

Thanks Brendon, I used Brackets to compile it. I tried using adobe’s script editor launching it directly from within AE but it won’t run anymore, it’s a 32bit application and it is no longer being updated, instead, it returns an error stating it’s not installed and tells you where to go to install it. When I go there (Creative Cloud app) I see that it is installed but grayed out. I’m on Mac OS Big Sur.