[Filip Vandueren]

While Dan’s expression works perfectly for me.

Your solution with the Nulls could use these simple expressions for the position of each Null like so:

TopLeft:

[0,0];

TopRight:

[thisComp.width, 0];

BottomRight:

[thisComp.width, thisComp.height];

BottomLeft:

[0, thisComp.height];

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi David,

always using [#] as a result of your expressions doesn’t make sense from a javascript code perspective.
It’s actually a quirk in After Effects that that works at all, I don’t remember a time when it was obligatory ?

[Filip Vandueren]

it can’t be done with a script or expressions, those would lose individual styles.

You can either do it manually on 3 copies of the text where your erase the other lines.

Or with text-animators that set the opacity of lines to 0

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Tyler, the upload here on the cow made it kind of blurry, hard to tell.

But where does it look jagged, in a media player ?
Does it look equally bad when you import the footage back into After Effects, a difference between different apps could be the case if you’re on a hiDPI screen.

You could overlay your rendered image on top of the comp with difference blend mod and see what’s going on.

If it was hard contrast between different colors it would be due to the 422 chroma subsampling, but here it’s clearly contrast in the Luma channels only…

You’re positive it was 422 HQ and not a proxy/LT version ?

[Filip Vandueren]

Something like this:

thisComp = app.project.activeItem;
selLayers = thisComp.selectedLayers;
min_inPoint = Math.min.apply(0, selLayers.map(function (l) {return l.inPoint} ));
max_outPoint = Math.max.apply(0, selLayers.map(function (l) {return l.outPoint} ));
layers_duration = max_outPoint - min_inPoint;
newComp = thisComp.layers.precompose(selLayers.map(function (l) {return l.index}), "precomp", true);
for (l=1; l<=newComp.numLayers; l++) newComp.layer(l).startTime-=min_inPoint;
newComp.duration = layers_duration;
thisComp.selectedLayers[0].startTime = min_inPoint; // the precomp will now be the selected layer in our main comp

[Filip Vandueren]

I’d do that with leading 🙂

[Filip Vandueren]

Last line should be:

sorted.join(“\r”);

Which joins the elements of the array into a string with return-characters inbetween every element.

[Filip Vandueren]

A few questions:

Is every line on its own text layer?

Or Is it multi-line text, if so: wrapped by a textbox, or manually wrapped with enters?

Would you know the amount of lines beforehand and do you want as many separate sliders to controle each line.

Or 1 slider that sets the delay globally?

[Filip Vandueren]

Maybe you need accelX[0] ?

Haven’t tested the code

[Filip Vandueren]

Oops, second line was wrong:

{
var input = Window.prompt("Enter the desired subdivisions for Proportional grid (H,V)", "8,6");
var dims = input.split(",");
if (parseFloat(dims[0])>0) app.preferences.savePrefAsFloat("Main Pref Section v2", "Pref_ANIMGRID_CELLS_HORIZ",dims[0]);
if (parseFloat(dims[1])>0) app.preferences.savePrefAsFloat("Main Pref Section v2", "Pref_ANIMGRID_CELLS_VERT v2",dims[1]);
}