[Ed Nudnick]

There might be a simpler solution by setting up a series of Applescripts.

Though, I’d have to “tell “Adobe Premier Pro CS6” to…
(do stuff)

Any thoughts on a good reference for finding the proper names of the drop-down menu items I’d have to navigate through to facilitate this?

Naturally, file-import.
Then, analyze the footage for speech…
And, in those options, pairing it with a script text.
But, I’m not sure I can keystroke my way to all those.

[Ed Nudnick]

I see.

Well, hopefully Adobe has a SDK that might allow access to these functions.
Does anybody know where I could find such a thing?

And, also, if there’s a list of skilled developers who could assist?

[Ed Nudnick]

Perfect!

I keep forgetting about while functions and wind up concocting a bunch of IF’s embedded into IF’s.

Thanks, Dan!

[Ed Nudnick]

Sorry. Sorry…

The expression below is where I’m currently stuck

transSOUND = thisComp.layer("transcribedSOUND.wav");
HLword = 0;
n = 0;
nn = 0;
xx = 0;
xxt = 0;

if (text.sourceText.numKeys > 0)
{
xx = text.sourceText.nearestKey(time).index;
xxt = text.sourceText.key(xx).time;

if (xxt > time) {xx--;
}}
if (transSOUND.marker.numKeys > 0)
{nn = transSOUND.marker.nearestKey(time).index;
n = ((transSOUND.marker.nearestKey(time).index - transSOUND.marker.nearestKey(xxt).index )+1);
if (transSOUND.marker.key(nn).time > time) nn--;
}
if (n > 0)
{if (n%2)
{HLword = n;}
else
{HLword = n;}
}
else
{HLword;}

[Ed Nudnick]

Ok. I’m getting MUCH closer.

Though, I’m having some difficulty in remembering how to prevent a value from changing until the current time actually crosses the time at the marker.

The function of “Nearest” seems to be giving me a rounding error.

transSOUND = thisComp.layer("transcribedSOUND.wav");
HLword = 0;
n = 0;
nn = 0;
xx = 0;
xxt = 0;

if (text.sourceText.numKeys > 0)
{xx = text.sourceText.nearestKey(time).index;
xxt = text.sourceText.key(xx).time;
if (xxt > time) {xx--;
}}

if (xx > 0)
{if (xx%2)
{x = xx;}
else
{x = xx;}
}
else
{x;}

if (transSOUND.marker.numKeys > 0)
{nn = transSOUND.marker.nearestKey(time).index;
n = (transSOUND.marker.nearestKey(time).index - transSOUND.marker.nearestKey(xxt).index + 1);
if (transSOUND.marker.key(nn).time > time) nn--;
}

if (n > 0)
{if (n%2)
{HLword = n;}
else
{HLword = n;}
}
else
{HLword;}

[Ed Nudnick]

That sounds about right…
Though, I realize I forgot all about the value of poor little “n,” which is really where the magic happens.

I think the logic behind what I’m after (at this point) is to reduce n to 1 (one) in the following manner:

Subtract the value of the marker index from the current value of n each time the index value of the sourceText keyframes increases.

To achieve this, I don’t think I need to embed my original (and most importantly), working expression into another IF… ELSE statement.

But, I just have to parse the logic into another javascript/Adobe-speak hybrid.

[Ed Nudnick]

Oh jeez, do I feel dumb.

The script below worked perfectly…
(with replacing the *’s with backslashes)

s = text.sourceText.replace(/*r/g,"");
c = s[textIndex-1];
if (/^*w/i.test(c)) 100 else 0;


[Ed Nudnick]

Mostly there. Though, since I’m not very code-experienced, special characters evade me.

So, I set up the inelegant script below.
With the variable “show,” I subtract 100 in the other layer to get the reverse effect.

(See script below)
******

Sadly, with this many IF statements, it slows performance.
Instead, I think I could speed it up by defining an array with all the alphanumeric characters and testing to see if that is my condition at that textIndex moment.

Also, I’ve abandoned the carriage-return snafu from earlier and opted to just use a text-box for formatting. It’s a crude workaround. But, it gets it done for now.

Still curious about that.

Would likely have to set a variable to count carriage-returns, then add 1 (one) to a variable holding the [textIndex-1] value for those index-slots occurring after the carriage-return index-slots.

var show = thisComp.layer("word_slider").effect("visibility")("Slider");
c = text.sourceText.value[textIndex-1];
if (/a/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/b/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/c/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/d/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/e/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/f/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/g/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/h/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/i/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/j/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/k/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/l/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/m/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/n/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/o/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/p/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/q/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/r/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/s/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/t/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/u/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/v/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/w/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/x/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/y/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else if (/z/i.test(c)) Math.abs(show-100)
else Math.abs(show);


[Ed Nudnick]

Mostly there.
Though, there’s an offset of one character index if there’s a carriage return or line break in the source text.
So, once I figure out how to add 1 to the [textIndex] for every carriage return, this should work fine.

It seems javascript sees the carriage return as a character that advances the textIndex.
But, After Effects does not.