I will check that out. My new system came with Hedge which I have been using for the time being and it is working well.
However, I only just discovered that Cache-a formated lto5 tapes can not be read with it, how have you handled that?

Got it to work like this:

var num = thisLayer.name.split("_")[1];
var nam = thisComp.layer("CD_01").name.split("_")[0];
var CD = thisComp.layer(nam +"_"+ num);
CD.toComp(CD.anchorPoint);

Hello all,

I am in need of some expression help using the name.split expression. I have tons of circles in individual shape layers that are all labeled “CD_01”, “CD_02” and so on. I’m connecting them all with beam effect to draw lines between them. Each beam layer is labeled “CL_01”, “CL_02”.

I’d like it so the position expression of the beam…

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