[Mark Walczak]

Thanks, Erik! That works great!

[Mark Walczak]

Hi Bob,

I’m sorry I didn’t clarify this sooner, but U isn’t quite what I need. I’m hoping to learn a shortcut that shows only keyframed properties, not keyframed properties and expressions. I have some layers that have oodles of expressions, but I only want to see what’s been keyframed.

Sorry for the mix-up!

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[Mark Walczak]

PS – If I wanted to go uber-crazy with this, could I put your ToComp expression in the place of p1 or p2 and simply link the target layers to the first line in the ToComp code?

Thanks!

c=this_comp.layer("child");
c.to_comp(c.anchor_point)


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[Mark Walczak]

Dan,

This is EXACTLY what I needed! I knew you’d come through for this one (as always)!

Thank you so much!

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[Mark Walczak]

Wow! These are very thorough answers – thanks, everyone!

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[Mark Walczak]

Also, be sure to check your feathering. You may need to animate it to “0” as the gradient animates.

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[Mark Walczak]

I know that disabling GPU rendering tends to help fix some common issues…maybe give that a shot?

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[Mark Walczak]

Any chance that it’s a locked-down shot? If so, you might be able to pull a difference matte using a clean background plate.

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[Mark Walczak]

I realize the frustration of getting a pasted mask to behave in a pixel-accurate matter, but it might be best to simply use the mask in Photoshop to create a simple luma matte and pull the alpha in After Effects….

Hope this helps!

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[Mark Walczak]

I just want to add one more vote for the Beam effect. Also, be sure to check out Harry Frank’s amazing tutorial about using Beam with expressions here:

https://www.graymachine.com/2010/08/tocomp/

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