[Mackie John]

This also works. Im grateful for the response

[Mackie John]

This surely works thank you.

[Mackie John]

Many thanks for your response Tomas. That is not an option for me. Is there any alternative to sourcerectattime. I want be able to acheive with expressions within the same layer

[Mackie John]

Excellent dear. Thanks for your help. This was the issue.

[Mackie John]

Sorry kindly please ignore this, this is fixed. I was using the wrong rectangle. Just need to understand something, why is Parent and LINK used

[Mackie John]

There was a parent link, I removed that now below is the result, still there is offset.

[Mackie John]

I’m having a problem with another project and tried your suggestion above, it give me a huge offset or difference between the anchorpoint of the rectangle and the position of the Text. I can see the Text is attached to the anchor point of the Rectangle by moving the anchor point of the rectangle and the text moves along, but what I don’t understand is why is there a huge difference in this project an the same thing works in another project which I tested earlier. Confused.

D = thisComp.layer(“TEXT BOX”)

fullPosition = D.toComp(D.anchorPoint);

Attached is the file showing the offset between the anchorpoints of the textbox and text. Marked in red is the text anchorpoint and marked in blue is the rect anchor point

[Mackie John]

Thank you Dan,

This works just fine.

[Mackie John]

I got this working with the following script (had to point to the right action var)

action = comp(“Comp 1”).layer(“Marker”);
n = 0;
//test = action.marker.numKeys;
if (action.marker.numKeys > 0){
n = action.marker.nearestKey(time).index;

if (action.marker.key(n).time > time){
n–;

}
}

if (n == 0){
0
}else{
m = action.marker.key(n);
myComment = m.comment;
test = myComment;
t = time – m.time;
}

try{
actMarker = action.marker.key(myComment);
if (action.marker.numKeys > actMarker.index){
tMax = action.marker.key(actMarker.index + 1).time – actMarker.time;
}else{
tMax = action.outPoint – actMarker.time;
}
t = Math.min(t, tMax);
actMarker.time + t;

}catch (err){
0
}

[Mackie John]

Thanks Andrei,

This works.

Another question as I’m just new to ExtendedScript. How do I write in the script to target the application. I know this can be done from the dropdown box in the ExtendScriptToolkit. But if I forget that or I need to run the script from within AfterEffects (where I include it as part of the footage), it gives me an undefined error on the below line

app.project.activeItem.layer("Audio").selected = true;