HyperImport does that.
https://aescripts.com/hyperimport/

It allows local / online import, with .csv as well. Hope it helps!

Hi Maarten,

Something I realized from the ai to ae workflow is that if we have already animated the vectors, going into the ai file and changing the layer indexes will screw things up. For eg.

If there are currently Layer1, Layer2, Layer3 in the ai file, adding a layer in between Layer2 and Layer3, naming the new layer “Layer3” and renaming the…

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Could there be a chance that your keyboard keys have been pressed? While drawing the mask using the pen tool, if the key “n” is pressed, the blending mode will be changed to none. If other keys are pressed, the mode will cycle through any modes that start with that letter. You can try pressing “a” to get it back to add.

To explain the expression,
“var valAry = value.split(“r”);”
This sets a variable name to the value.split(“r”);

“value”
This is the property value, in this case, whatever text you enter.

“value.split(“r”);”
This searches for any line breaks you have entered and split the value from a string to an Array.
An array is like a group of objects and array…

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Actually you don’t really need sliders for this.
You can paste this expression into the source text and each line you enter will add an index in front of the line. Just make sure you start a new line with “enter” or “return”, not “shift+enter” or “shift+return” as the latter causes problems. Have fun!

var valAry = value.split("r");
var curLine =…

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Hey Rob,

Of course! My examples were done in a rush. So I’m glad u could proof read it. 🙂 Have fun!

Hello,

I have a script which requires the full path of the folder and object. Everything works smoothly, however, that is if the user’s os language is set to English.

I know for a fact, based on AE’s javascript tool guide, we can temporarily set the locale to a different language to test the locale. For example this example works.

message = {…

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Forgot to add. I did the demo. You can download it here! Enjoy! 🙂

You can create a checkbox control. In this case, I named it “UpperCaseControl” and put this expression in the text expression field. Hope this helps!

if(effect("UpperCaseControl")("Checkbox") == 1){
	text.sourceText.toUpperCase();
}else{
	text.sourceText.toLowerCase();
}

Hi Gabriel,

.toComp() is generally used for 2d layers. Have you tried .toWorld(), which is used for 3d layers?

Glad I could help! Have fun! 🙂

Hey Jeff,

Thanks for your explanation. We can’t change the keyframe value via expression. However, we can get what you want without even including keyframes.

You can try this on your masterNull’s position without keyframes on any layers. “TRICODE” should be a layer control effect applied to the masterNull.

var target = effect("TRICODE")("Layer");
var…

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Do all your comps have the same frame rate? Sometimes they cause problems if they aren’t the same.

Hi Jeff, I would love to help you out but I don’t really understand your explanation. Are you trying to create an expression on Null1 that moves from its origin to Null2’s position? And I have no idea why are you using scale in your expression.

Perhaps you can try linear(time, 0,2,value,thisComp.layer(“Null2).transform.position); on Null1’s…

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You can try this. if targeting layers is required, select them before executing the script. If not, use this without selecting any layers.

var projComp = app.project.activeItem;
var selLay = projComp.selectedLayers;
var addTime = 2;
function addCompTime(item){
    if(item.timeRemapEnabled == false){
        item.timeRemapEnabled = true;
…

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Expressions can only be applied to properties which can be animated. So I’m not sure if it’s as how you think it to be sadly.

You can make each individual circle larger and use a simple choke on an adjustment layer or its comp

Would you be able to better state what you are trying to solve? The blending modes in ae behaves the same way as those in photoshop. So I don’t know what’s your question or issue.

1. You need to enable continuous rasterize.

2. You need to change your renderer for that comp to cinema 4d renderer. You can access that by Ctrl K or Cmd K, 3D renderer.

Someone asked about this not too long ago.

I replied with a script. You can see it here.

Script to activate or mute effects and layers from multiple pre-comp

Does anyone have any insights as to whether VSC’s texttojsxbin can encode //@include? I’m at the last stage of compiling my code for aescripts and I couldn’t get things to work.

Thanks for letting me know! I’m not sure if that’s a problem with scripting tho. I’ve only ever once exceeded more than 1000 layers in after effects in a single comp and when it exceeds 1000, after effects started getting cranky.

That’s wonderful Gerald! Your effect looks amazing too and I learned from it as well. I’ve never done effects this way and didn’t know it’s possible. I need to play around with it for sure. 😀

No worries Gerald, it’s also a learning journey for me!

I’ve edited a V03 script. This time it’s not based on names but selection. In order for the script to run, you need to have layer 0 selected like in the image, before running the script. This script will create a new “MasterComp-Script” Composition and the layers will be compiled there.

You can…

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I’ve never actually scripted for another language before and upon googling, it does show that ae has some sort of language barriers for scripts/expressions. Learning something new everyday!
There are 2 ways to handle things for now. Would you be able to change your language to english before executing the script? If not, if we could force our way…

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I just tested on my big sur, and it works too. Let’s not give up yet. I’ve added more checks in V02. Let’s try it on the .aep that I’ve sent you. Also, can you make sure that you allow scripts to write files and access networks just incase?

Here’s your original file, I just deleted Comps 1 to 50 in the folder “Unbenannt 1” you can try it on this. If it doesn’t work, maybe I shouldn’t be lazy and add more checks in the script before handing over to you. haha

File didn’t get through the first time, let me try sending it again!

Hey Gerald. My script only has 47 lines, are you sure that’s my code? Alternatively, why dont you try giving this a try? I saved it as a .jsx for you, you can run it via, File, Scripts, Run script file.

Welcome! Hope this helps! Greetings from Singapore! Just a note, you need to delete whatever you have done for the script to work since it starts from layer”1″. So whatever work you have done, might be wasted.
It took a few seconds for my machine to produce 300 comps, and I’m already on intel i9 10900k with 64gb ram. If you are looking at more than…

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Can you tell me more about the “time”:0, “time”:297…. etc?
It jumps by quite a huge margin from 6 to 297. Is it frames or seconds?

Also, keep in mind that with this script, you can’t have any items with the same name. To prevent problems caused by the same name, more checks need to be added to this script too.

You can try this! For this to work, you need to have the following created.
“diffusion” layer, “0” layer, “Master” layer.
I’ve also parented the new comps to the folder that you are already using, “Unbenannt 1”.

var totalCompToCreate = 100;//Change this number to whatever number you like.
var proj = app.project;
var itemTotal = proj.numItems;
var…

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Hi Gerald,

When you say you need to change the precomp layer, may I know what exactly do u need changed on that layer?

Besides the parent pickwhip method, if you open the dropdown for each of the transform properties, like position, you can see that each property has its own pickwhip, just like on the layer.

To link properties easily, you can click drag this pick whip to another property of another layer. Take note that this is not the parent pickwhip, but the…

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There are no hotkeys for that. However, I’ve done a script to set a key at the current time to any selected properties. You can set a shortcut key to this script. So in a way, this shortcut key adds keyframe to any properties that you want. You can save this as a .jsx and place it in the ae, scripts folder.

var proj = app.project;
var projComp =…

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Have you tried Redefinery’s gimmeproppath script? Their site is down now though, not sure if it’s due to the latest ae update. But I hope you can locate it once the site is up.

For a simple way to turn on/off effects of a nested comp, you can use this after selecting that comp in your mastercomp.

var proj = app.project;
var projComp = app.project.activeItem;
var selLay = projComp.selectedLayers;
var foundFx = 0;
for(var i = 0; i <= selLay.length-1; i++){
    var curLay = selLay[i];
    curLay.selected = false;
…

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I tried hard to understand what did you want to do with your script. With the best of my ability, I think what you need, is to get an array of layers that has a certain string in the layer’s name.

Here’s a function you can use instead.

var proj = app.project;

var projComp = app.project.activeItem;
var selLay = projComp.selectedLayers;
function…

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Yup. There are a couple of things to be done.

Your script needs to loop through your precomp’s maker, get the key.comment and keytime and pass it as an array or two, to the next part of the script which creates the marker on your chosen layer.

You can try this. Put this expression in the position. 🙂

var aniTime = 10/30;// Change this to change the timing it takes to go up/down.
n = 0;
if (marker.numKeys > 0) {
    n = marker.nearestKey(time).index;
    if (marker.key(n).time > time) {
        n--;
    }
}
if (n == 0) {
	var y = value[1];
}else{
	var y = value[1] + linear(time, marker.key(n).time,…

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Hey Kieran,

When you said you want it to follow but not scale, do u mean position? If that’s the case, does linking up their position help?