[Manuel Roman]

Dan also posted this on my duplicate post, before I realized there was a Forum for expressions… this worked great as well! Thanks to both of you!

L1 = thisComp.layer("Line 1");
rect1 = L1.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);
x1 = L1.toComp([rect1.left+525,0])[0];
L2 = thisComp.layer("Line 2");
rect2 = L2.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);
x2 = L2.toComp([rect2.left+525,0])[0];
[Math.min(x1,x2), 540]

[Manuel Roman]

Awesome this worked out perfect! Thanks so much! Walter also posted a reply with this which also worked great!

L1 = thisComp.layer(“Line 1”);

rect1 = L1.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);

L2 = thisComp.layer(“Line 2”);

rect2 = L2.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);

x = Math.min(L1.toComp([rect1.left+525,0])[0], L2.toComp([rect2.left+525,0])[0]);

[x, 540]

[Manuel Roman]

Oh my god. It worked! You are amazing! I messed with this way too long yesterday. Thank you, thank you!

[Manuel Roman]

We finally figured out the problem, when we hooked up the new raid the Xraid admin program didn’t configure the raid correctly. Basically it was set to a cache writing setting that caused the video to break up into blocks instead of a streaming capture. It took some hurdles to jump but it’s fixed now. Thanks for your help,
Mani

[Manuel Roman]

Yeah I got it set at 30 minutes. But I don’t know how that would mess up video and drop frames when capturing.

[Manuel Roman]

Yeah I have all that stuff set up, it is just that Leitch has all of the video, and when I say all I don’t mean just the media in the project, it has a spread sheet log list of every video that you have for everything, video, audio, graphics and it is intuitive it’s always there and all video is in one place not in different folder and stuff and it is organized by name or video type or date. There is not a bunch of diretory junk to go through to get to your video, you simply open up the system and everything is accessable. Final Cut has somewhat a similar setup but you have to set it up everytime you do anything. In Leitch it doesn’t change, it is always open with the program for all media not just a few projects. It just makes things more complicated when you pull video from this bin and that bin, this folder and that folder. Then you end up with too many folders and assests that are spread throughout the hard drive. I’ve heard of a program called HD logger but don’t know if it is worth it. You’re supposed to be able to digitize outside of FCP and be able to log all video in there but I just don’t know how intergrated the program is with FCP or if there is something else better. Also I have an apple raid with about 6TB of space.

[Manuel Roman]

Thanks man! It’s seems that things that trip you up are something other people know to be simple, but I didn’t think indent would be bevel, when I think of indent I think of moving text over on a page. Thank again for your help.
Manibot