Well so the point of this thread was that the “Playhead moves to the selected edit point” part is what we want to avoid. When you’re using spacebar/arrow keys and find that exact frame you want to move the edit points to, you don’t want to have to find it again after the playhead moves from having selected the edit points. It seems like a forced…

Read more

I’m confused by your first post then. The point of my question was to find out an alternative, but thank you though.

Hi there thanks for the reply but I’m afraid that’s not the case on my machine. I tried all modifier key combinations, if it selects the edit points, the playhead moves. Maybe there’s a setting I missed? Can you confirm if your Premiere behaves this way by chance?

Drag-selecting edit points with the Rolling Edit Tool (N) makes the playhead jump over to them and it makes me sad. So I have to select end points one-by-one and hit E (cumbersome with multiple layers of clips). I do understand Shift-Q/W will extend Next/Previous edit to playhead, but that means changing track targeting every time to make sure…

Read more

I’m trying to write a script to precomp text layers, with the precomp being the size of the text bounding box, just as you can do with source layers (“Leave all attributes”). I found -this script binary- but it was written 13 years ago and doesn’t quite work right now. Its problems are the same as the problems I’m running into as I try to…

Read more

I know it’s a long shot but is there any roundabout way to get the mask path data from a mask in Ae over to one in Pr?

I was surprised when I tried out ChatGPT that it knew what Adobe ExtendScript was, and even funnier was when I asked it to refine the code, it got sassy! lol

But also a word of caution, its code is not always right, even in common code languages, but it can at least get you down the right path.. AI learning has a lot of potential tho and it’s…

Read more

A classic problem: Anyone who’s tried to accomplish speed acceleration thru expressions has learned about how expressions don’t have any memory to work with and therefore can’t reference previous frames to make various speed adjustments… I’ve been dealing with this in trying to make tree leaves wiggle faster (turb disp phase) based on a tree’s…

Read more

Ohhh amazing as always Dan, thank you! (Yes I suppose the wind would only be blowing in one direction haha…) Your grasp on time evaluation always bewilders me – It makes me a little cross-eyed, but I’ll be studying this for a while. Thanks again, works perfectly!

Hello, I’m working on making a tree sway in the wind in a realistic manner with expressions, so it can be applied to many without manual keyframing required. I’m using CC Bend It and am trying to get it to simulate gusts of wind that come only periodically.

I found an old Dan Ebberts expression that has gotten me part of the way, but what I’m strug…

Read more

Hey guys simple question: I know you can add one of the Bevel presets to a model and it will add multiple bevel materials, but is there a way to add multiple instances of your own materials? Everything I try just replaces the one material on the model (I’m just working with extruded text) – I know I can place one of the bevel presets on it and…

Read more

Ah, quite right! Adding the solid bg did the trick, good looking out ;D

I don’t understand quite why this works but you solved the puzzle! But now I’m curious why are we able to see the original position and not only the offset position?

I meant to also include the Source Text expression:

txt = '';
startLayer = index + 1; // Where to start looking for Active Layer.
for (j = startLayer; j <= thisComp.numLayers; j++){
	if (j == index) continue;
	L = thisComp.layer(j); if (! (L.hasVideo && L.active)) continue;
	if (time >= L.inPoint && time < L.outPoint){ try{ txt = L.source.name;…

Read more

Hey guys,

So I’m automating a single text layer to animate in & out at the start of video clips. The text source displays a person’s name extracted from a split of the active video’s layer name. I’ve got everything working great, but now I also want it to skip any consecutive people’s names – like if one clip is split into multiple layers, I only…

Read more

Interesting.. I don’t get the same result (cc 2022)
There’s no fx on the images right?

Hey there, just looking for an effect, not actual 3d. So one source with basically 2 position-shifted, color-tinted versions. I was thinking maybe something with echo, but then didn’t know how you could color different echos differently. idk, it was more of a mental puzzle exercise than anything, there may not be a way

Hey guys, I edit a lot of highlight videos and I’m wanting to display the names of people who submit clips on-screen thru an automated process. I’m hoping to insert their names into some field in the metadata of the file (outside of Adobe workflow, still figuring that out) and use that to display their names while their clips play.

I’m editing in…

Read more

Hey guys, I was pondering my orb wondering if there was a way to create a single preset for one adjustment layer to create an anaglyph 3D (red/blue glasses) effect. I know I could create 2 presets to each change the color channels with one having a transform offset, but this was more a mere curiosity for the sake of knowing the program better.

Any ideas?

Okay, thanks for the clarification! 😉

You’re a legend Dan, thanks so much!! I knew something was awry…
As far as having multiple styles, what approach would you recommend? Once I call more than just one variable it gets angry about objects, which is doesn’t do if the variables are only strings..

first = text.sourceText.style.setFontSize(25).setText("This is text");
second =…

Read more

Hey guys, so it was my understanding that in newer versions of Ae there’s now a TextStyle class? My Ae is up to date (v18.4.0) but every time I try to use any expressions I’ve found with these styling options I get errors. The following expression placed on the Source Text of a text layer gives me an error saying that ‘style’ in Class…

Read more