[Peter Nepp]

Hi Walter,

if this is the way to go, so be it. ☺

My way to handle this conveniently:

var ctrl = ....

var marker = ctrl.property("Marker").keyValue(1);
var markerTime = ctrl.property("Marker").keyTime(1);

marker.label = 1;
marker.comment = "New Comment!"

ctrl.property("Marker").setValueAtTime(markerTime, marker);


Thanks again,
Peter

[Peter Nepp]

Hi Walter,

many thanks, that did the trick.

This is still a bit weird to me. ????

Peter

[Peter Nepp]

Hi,

I searched my Production Premium Suite discs a while ago, but I didn’t find anything about the SDK so far. ☹

Peter

[Peter Nepp]

Hi Alex,

I’m sorry for the delay. Many thanks again for all your support.

I didn’t find a solution yet, I also had a close look into the SDK of After Effects, but sadly due to certain limitations of the SDK I couldn’t write a plug-in to workaround this issue.

I’m going to start with a scripting solution to have multiple layers as instances instead a single time-remapped one.

Thanks,
Peter

PS: Happy new year. 🙂

[Peter Nepp]

Hi Alex,

I tried a similar thing with a slider expression control. I stored the master comp time there and tried to access this time via expression in a time remapped ( and looped at certain point in time) composition. But I’ve to access the master time slider via ‘valueAtTime(time)’ (do I?), but since ‘time’ is the ‘local time’ I won’t get the right results. Or did I miss something here?

Sorry, I didn’t use AE for a long time, so I don’t know exactly what the Essential Graphics stuff is. ???? What is the difference with the approach you described to the one I tried with the master time slider?

Peter

[Peter Nepp]

Hi Alex,

thank you very much for your help.

Sadly your approach won’t work, because the time remapping is controlled by another expression not by keyframes and secondly I definitely need to repeat time remapping values to create loops with the remapped comps. ☹

I already tried to store the ‘time’ value of the parent composition via $.setenv(), and grabbing it in the sub comp via $.getenv(). But this approach won’t work either, because AE seems to have some issues, maybe with threading or something else with accessing the environment. It’s partially working, but at some unspecific point, the values are absolutely wrong.

I’m trying to wrap my head around this issue for the last couple of days. I can’t figure it out yet.

Peter