Thank you @danebberts! That works perfectly.

I have included an Add marker button on my dialog.

Can you tell me what the command is to move to the next/previous marker is?

Rob

I am editing some old VHS videos that were put onto DVD. There are sections that need to be removed. I have created a simple dialog with buttons to simplify editing. One button successfully splits a layer then reverses the order so that the extra layer is below the original. I then move forward to the point where the extra layer needs to split and…

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Hi,

I am using AE 2023 and have written a script that sets an output folder and sends a comp to the render queue. What I’d like to do is add some code to close that comp, which is the active comp. From my research it seems there is no close method for app.project.activeItem.

I thought the line
app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId(“Close”));
would…

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Thank you once more Andrei!

Simple and elegant.

I am trying to write a bit of code I can call to search within a composition for a layer name and return the layer’s index, so I can then perform some actions on it.

The following shows that the variables have the expected values when running, but once it gets back to the code it was called from the layIndex variable shows as undefined.

How do I get…

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Thanks for the help Meng Zhiqun.

Because I am the end user, and I have done error checking elsewhere in the script, I trimmed it down to this:

var compVideo = app.project.item(3); // the video composition – which because of the naming structure will be the 3rd composition

var vidL = compVideo.layer(4); // the actual video layer in the video…

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I am attempting to freeze a layer (vidL) on it’s last frame, and extend the layer and composition by 2 seconds.

Using the code:

vidL.timeRemapEnabled = true;

vidL.property(“timeRemap”).setInterpolationTypeAtKey(1,KeyframeInterpolationType.HOLD);

results in the layer freezing from the first frame.

The following function throws an error code# 1: Unable…

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Thanks Andrei!

I figured it was something simple It works perfectly now.

Rob

Hi,

I’m new to scripting in AE. So far have managed to create a dialog and get input, copy layers from another composition, copy the sourceText from that layer and make layers visible. I have text from an edittext field. In another script it can be set as the sourceText.

I cannot seem to combine the imported layer text with the edittext… Read more