[Patrick Oneill]

Came across this old thread and posting for other who come across it.

Select the layer you want to link to another layer
Press ALT+SHIFT+= to bring up the expression
For position, you’ll see something like thisComp.layer(“LAYER NAME”).transform.position pop up. This affects BOTH axis.

As Steve said,
position[0] = X
position[1] = Y
position[2] = Z

So, add “position[0]” to the front or “position [1]” to the back of the expression to affect only one axis.

For example, this will affect ONLY the X axis:
[thisComp.layer(“LAYER NAME”).transform.position[0],position[1]]
And this will affect ONLY the Y axis:
[position[0],thisComp.layer(“LAYER NAME”).transform.position[1]]

Hope that helps.

[Patrick Oneill]

Ah, nice. I was not aware that you could override the time units this way. I usually just drop in a timecode overlay in Media Encoder and changing the time units doesn’t appear to be an option in that location.

Appreciate the help.

[Patrick Oneill]

Yeah, I ended up that exact thing. It appears that the maximum fps you can set your comp to is 99 fps (rather than an even 100) so it is slightly off but that was close enough for my purposes.

Thanks for responding. Good workaround suggestion.