[Filip Vandueren]

Sorry! You should save that script as a text-file with a .jsx extension inside of the scripts folder best to the app.

Then run the script from the file -> scripts menu.

Scripts can also be assigned a keyboard shortcut in the key command editor

[Filip Vandueren]

With just two color, the easiest way would be to work in black and white, set the overlapping object to white but layer mode “difference” wich will invert other colors below where it overlaps. Then add a tint on and adjustment layer to change black and white to different colors.

The messier approach is to have a second circle (or second text) in the alternate color that is track matted by (a copy of) the intersecting object.

[Filip Vandueren]

This script should be able to set it for you after a prompt.

{
var input = Window.prompt("Enter the desired subdivisions for Proportional grid (H,V)", "8,6");
var dims = dim.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]);
}

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Mathieu, you didn’t use semicolons to end statements, maybe that’s why you get an error in line 1.

The result of your calculation has 1 dimension, a number.

In what direction do you want the layer to move?

[Filip Vandueren]

Hello Hadi,

it’s a perhaps bit counterintuitive, but you get the style, and then you apply a setText() method to the style. You can’t take a text (which would be converted a string) and add a style to it.

so in your case:

s = thisComp.layer("text A").text.sourceText.style;
s.setText( effect("Slider Control")("Slider").value );

[Filip Vandueren]

Yes, an even more robust way! This will also account for stretched or reversed layers etc.

[Filip Vandueren]

Ah yes, makes sense for L/R stereo audio

replace 0 and -192 with [0,0] and [-192,-192]

[Filip Vandueren]

Easiest would be if you remove the teeth in illustrator and only keep the core shape.

– Then you create the straight teeth on a copy of the shape using a fat stroke with dashes.

– Add a “trim path” with its “end” around 92%, so 1 of them is missing. Animating the Trim Path offset will now rotate the cogs.

– select the Shape’s Path and run the “Create Nulls From Path” script with the option “Trace Path”

– parent your 1 irregular triangle tooth to this null, now line up the animation of the trace path with the Offset of the trim paths so the null is right in the center of where the 1 dash stroke is missing.

[Filip Vandueren]

After Effects also offers Pixel Motion Blur, which is the effect you’re looking for instad of force motion blur (which as Kevin mentioned is for adding lotion blur to effect settings, not footage per se)

[Filip Vandueren]

Hey Andrei, sourceRectAtTime refers to the source’s time, which – if you’ve (accidentally) changed the inPoint of the layer – is not necessarliy in sync with the composition’s time.

So the safest and correct use is:

l.sourceRectAtTime(time-l.startTime);