[Juanluis Vich]

hi!
I’m trying to get it working adding the possibility to convert text to shape as well, so if you select a bunch of vector art + text layers they are all converted together, but I cannot make it work properly, I added this to Dan’s code (changing “myComp.layer(a)” with “myLayer” to fit the rest of the working code.
If I select text layers it works well, but if I select both vector and text, it just does the vector conversion:


if((myLayer instanceof TextLayer)){
app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId("Create Shapes from Text"));
}


any ideas? thanks!

the whole code looks like this:


app.beginUndoGroup("convert");
var myLayers = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers;
var myLayer;
for (var i = 0; i < myLayers.length; i++){
myLayer = myLayers[i];

if((myLayer instanceof AVLayer) && (myLayer.source instanceof FootageItem) && (myLayer.source.mainSource instanceof FileSource)){
app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId("Create Shapes from Vector Layer"));
}
else if((myLayer instanceof TextLayer)){
app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId("Create Shapes from Text"));
}
}
app.endUndoGroup();

[Juanluis Vich]

awesome! thanks!!

[Juanluis Vich]

that’s a great piece of code!
I’m wondering, how could it be adapted to make a marker the trigger instead of the inPoint? So I can have a layer with a solid standing there and when the timeline reaches the marker the animation starts.

thanks!

[Juanluis Vich]

Thanks a lot for the light!!
I will give a try to that approach!

[Juanluis Vich]

Hi!
I have a similar issue, which I think via expressions should work perfectly, but don’t know how to approach:

I have a master composition with a looped animation. At some point, that animation has a time remapping with the animation speeded up,
but as I dont’ want one of their elements get affected by that new speed (the blinking eyes) , I’d need to compensate that child layers’s speed, to be 100% again and not, let’s say, 235% (but I cannot give a value now, it will be just a matter of playing with the end keyframe).
Do you know if there is a way to do it better than by hand, so no matter which new speed I give to the master layer, the child layer will be always at its own 100% speed?

Thanks a lot!

[Juanluis Vich]

hi!
do you know if it’s possible to take the color from a selection from a bunch of Color Control effect (maybe stored at the same layer) instead of a total random color? I’ve been trying to, but not lucky at all 🙁

thanks!

[Juanluis Vich]

thanks, it seems to work!!