[Filip Vandueren]

Here’s a script that changes all the Cyrillic texts to latin in the current comp,
some formatting will get lost, but that’s a limitation of After Effects.

app.beginUndoGroup("Cyrillic to Latin");
var thisComp = app.project.activeItem;
if (!thisComp.layers) $.writeln("no layers");
else {
    for(var i=1; i<=thisComp.numLayers; i++) {
        var l = thisComp.layer(i);
        if (l.hasOwnProperty("ADBE Text Properties")) {
            var txt = l("ADBE Text Properties")("ADBE Text Document");
            if (txt.numKeys) {
                for(var j=1; j<=txt.numKeys; j++) {
                    txt.setValueAtKey(j, transliterate(txt.keyValue(j)));
                    }
                } else {
                    txt.setValue(transliterate(txt.value));
                    }
            }
     }
}
// from @briemens via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11404047/transliterating-cyrillic-to-latin-with-javascript-function
var a = {"Ё":"YO","Й":"I","Ц":"TS","У":"U","К":"K","Е":"E","Н":"N",
"Г":"G","Ш":"SH","Щ":"SCH","З":"Z","Х":"H","Ъ":"'","ё":"yo","й":"i",
"ц":"ts","у":"u","к":"k","е":"e","н":"n","г":"g","ш":"sh","щ":"sch",
"з":"z","х":"h","ъ":"'","Ф":"F","Ы":"I","В":"V","А":"a","П":"P","Р":"R",
"О":"O","Л":"L","Д":"D","Ж":"ZH","Э":"E","ф":"f","ы":"i","в":"v","а":"a",
"п":"p","р":"r","о":"o","л":"l","д":"d","ж":"zh","э":"e","Я":"Ya","Ч":"CH",
"С":"S","М":"M","И":"I","Т":"T","Ь":"'","Б":"B","Ю":"YU","я":"ya","ч":"ch",
"с":"s","м":"m","и":"i","т":"t","ь":"'","б":"b","ю":"yu"};
function transliterate(word){
  return word.toString().split('').map(function (c) { 
    return a[c] || c; 
  }).join("");
}
app.endUndoGroup();

[Filip Vandueren]

But then “Ж” would have to become “zh” ?

[Filip Vandueren]

< i >

[Filip Vandueren]

an <i> tag

[Filip Vandueren]

for (i=0; i<10; i++) {

j= k>2 ? 10:100;

}

[Filip Vandueren]

an tag

an tag

an < i > tag

[Filip Vandueren]

Depending on the font, you can get away with faux italics and faux bolds which can be fakes with text-animator ranges.

See this thread where I built a proof of concept ‘html’ parser so you editors could just type html-style < i > or < b > or < red > or whatever tags <red style=””><red style=””>etc. around the words they want changed.</red></red>

https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/is-it-possible-to-create-text-flags-for-custom-tex/

Is it possible to create text flags for custom text styles for Motion Graphics Templates?

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Mike,

your example works without a problem for me, both in Legacy Extendscript and Javascript engines. (Mac OS X)

[Filip Vandueren]

You mentioned these are two consecutive frames, so it appears After Effects is deciding this at random wether to include the RGB values or not.

One way to force those transparant.invisible pixels to a single color is this:

Add a “Solid Composite” effect, but put it’s opacity at 0%

[Filip Vandueren]

hi ferenc,

if you look at the PNG files in After Effects and enable “RGB Straight” in the RGB button (The Show Channel and color management Settings button) then you’ll see why.

the 6MB has 1 single color in the transparant pixels , while the 29Mb one has texture stored in all of the RGB pixels.