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Gary Sweeney started the discussion Source Text Expression - Caching Slow in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 09:01:27 +0000

Hi, the machine I’m using is a MacBook Pro, Apple M2 Max chip, 64GB RAM & 1TB Hardrive.

I’ve recently added the expression below to a text layer:

txt=thisComp.layer(index+1).name

txt.slice(4, -10);

This is looking at the video file name below the text layer for the source text and then removing the first 4 and last 10 characters i.e. 01. Banner Name…

Gary Sweeney replied to the discussion Layer In & Out Time Automation in the forum Adobe After Effects

Fri, 19 May 2023 11:18:51 +0000

Reply to Layer In & Out Time Automation

Hi Andy, this worked perfectly, thank you!

I was able to tweak what you had in the file to do both the in & out times using the script below.

// Get the selected parent and child layers

var parentLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0];

var childLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[1];

// Check if both layers are selected

if…

Gary Sweeney started the discussion Layer In & Out Time Automation in the forum Adobe After Effects

Fri, 12 May 2023 12:38:13 +0000

Layer In & Out Time Automation

Hi, just wondering if it’s possible to set the In & Out time of a text layer based on another layer?

For e.g.

Layer 1 is a text layer and layer 2 is a video layer.

Rather than having to manually adjust the ends of the text layer using ‘ option & [ ‘ & ‘ option & ] ‘ I’d like layer 1 to automatically adjust to layer 2.

In the image below, the yellow…