Creative COW | Ray Collett | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/raycollett/activity/ Activity feed for Ray Collett. Fri, 15 May 2026 19:23:54 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 680f42603d7b2970c00e23717d61209d Ray Collett replied to the discussion Change layer source via expression? in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/change-layer-source-via-expression/#post-2426615 Tue, 22 Mar 2022 05:00:38 +0000 Reply to Change layer source via expression?

Hmm, that’s not what I was hoping to hear… Some of my layers might be a choice of dozens of footage items. Maybe I can chain them together and then select them by the time range.

It’d be nice to be able to set something like thisLayer.source(footage(“blahblah.png”))

]]> 4f3a69d0dbd24319c13333b3f40c07d0 Ray Collett started the discussion Change layer source via expression? in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/change-layer-source-via-expression/ Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:15:34 +0000 Change layer source via expression?

Is there a way to change the source of a layer with an expression?

 

I currently have about 100 identical comps, and each comp has several effects that are driven by the contents from one of 100 different CSV files, which is selected based on the comp’s name. These CSV’s are automatically generated by another application, which makes… Read more

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