Hello Everyone,

I don’t know why this is happening now but I feel that they’ve changed the behavior of keyframes that go beyond the timeline. Everyday I would use scripts that would affect something out of the timeline, and objects would animate accordingly. In updating. My after effects behaves differently; am I misconceiving. Or is there a way to…

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Greetings everyone,

I did a little digging, but couldn’t find scripting in terms of submenus. But to clarify I will attach screenshots of the menu.

Hi Angela for the best workflow you possibly want to turn your vectors into AE shapes. You gain more control of the animation, and shape layers. One thing a person also has said to me is that a large complex heavy illustrator files converted into shapes will bog down after effects a lot. Also check out these resources: I’m sure your aware of the…

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Thank you both for your brilliant solutions, this definitely places me at the end of the creating the script. For some reason I thought the label method, only applied to layer markers. Both these methods make it a lot more efficient in creating color hierarchies.

Hi Dan,

Thank you! This is a very clever solution to changing the the color of the icon on the null layer. Which would be an amazing alternative. But if possible is there a way to actually change color of the layers themselves on the timeline?

I’ve looked all throughout the documentation, and google searches. Is there a way to script changing color of layers. I’m building a script that parents a null to another layer, then depending on that layers color, the null will be a specified color. Not looking for labels either, but color of an actual layer.

So I fixed it for now. But is there a way of properly setting the inPoint of the new null to match the current layer? I got it to match the duration, but can’t seem to target the null layer to set the inpoint.

Thank you Dan, will try to figure it from here

Hi everyone,

Need some help in finishing my script. I have a script that when I select multiple layers and run the script. It will bind all layers to the null. But now trying to have the parenting null jump above the last selected layer, and match the layers duration. I made a test one separate from my working script. I get this error: “Unable to…

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I’m going to take your diligent notes, and make something. Will report back. Thank you, thank you!

Both lovely answers. Thank you both! But Constantin very fascinated by your answer, could it be possible to see some logic used like this in context. The javascript used by the codebase is great, but not always predictable when it comes to writing it properly. If I could see an example I would overjoyed. Thank you.

So you can hotkey only a certain number of scripts with After effects. Wanted to see if anyone had a work around?

My mistake, thank you for graciously aiding me. This works perfectly. Thank you very much!

Hi Dan, thank you so much for your aid. In trying it out I received an error: “Function Array is undefined.”

Hi everyone working on a script. And my current iteration works, but it grabs every single layer that is parented and adds a marker. I’ve tweeked the for loop, and nested if statement but AE just ignores it. The script iterates through every single layer instead of only the selected. If by chance you could help here is my code.

var comp =…

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Understanding more of the behavior of this coding environment everyday . Very grateful for your direction! Thank you Filip.

Filip thank you for your aid. In testing the script some more, now that new line comes with a new error – l=comp.selectedLayers(i); is sending error – “Function Array is undefined”. So I don’t know if this is the proper logic I put brackets around the iterating variable so it becomes an array – l=comp.selectedLayers[i]; .. But then the following…

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Superb

Incredible, thank you as always.

Hi I’ve created a script that takes all layers that have a parent layer, then adds a marker to them using their parent layer name name. Then unparents them. I’m trying to create a script that does the reverse in a way;

The script will look through the selected layers, find the marker name that coincides with their original parent layer and then…

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Hello all,

I’m making a script that can detect a layer and it’s properties, then spit the location back out ; so that I may add some interpolation to it. Excuse the hacky way that I go about it. It mainly gets the job done until it has to iterate through the layers within a for loop. Within the for loop it’s saying layer is null. I use a method…

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Thank you Dan!!

Hi Michael,

It seems they actually fixed their product. I’ve just been in a whirlwind because a lot of my presets, and projects I was previously working on are now acting funny. Mostly ones with preset displacement. I think I may just reiterate them to work. Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I’m really a hobbyist programmer so bare with me if you can. I’m making a script that basically

adds a null then selects the active layer as the parent. I’m nearly there but it’s just setting the parent . Here is the code:

var comp = app.project.activeItem, props, n, p, idx;

if (comp instanceof CompItem){

props =…

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I’m trying to use Shadow studio 2 on AE2021. And now it renders differently. Anyone have the same issue?

It’s hard to pilot this thing sometimes

Figured it out – of coarse you need to have the latest update.

Very nice. After effects is like this large spaceship with hidden nuances. Thank you Walter! But I wanted to ask if you would know why this option may not be showing in my viewer?

Hi all,

So I’ve created easing script that can ease all properties rot,sca,pos,opa. But How do you “target” the “effect properties” and other special ones.

eg this is my rotation:

var rotmod = activeLay.layer(p).property(“Rotation”); // rot layer module of active

var curRotKeyIn_in =…

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Thank you Eric. Yes I use the lock workflow as well. But you still need to click in and out of your locked comp. 😢 I’m just looking for a way to not to have to touch anything and always preview a locked comp.

So love using two compositions, but it’s tedious to have to keep going back to main comp timeline, clicking on it, then hitting preview. Is there a way to edit other comps, but always preview from main comp?

So love using two compositions, but it’s tedious to have to keep going back to main comp timeline, clicking on it, then hitting preview. Is there a way to edit other comps, but always preview from main comp?

Thank you Dan!!

Hi all, Making a script that can allow me to ease my layers via shortcut. The problem I’m having is that I can’t seem to target a currently selected layer. I will share my code. Can anyone aid me with the logic of how to do this? I pretty much target with activeLay and numkeys. But I’ve only been successful at targeting the top layer. And a lot of…

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