Hmm, not extremely experienced in scripting. I’ve wrote a couple with a decent amount of help – still learning. How would I inspect the object model?

TLDR;
Script UI needs me to select only ONE layer then hit the button, then select another, hit the button. Can’t do multiple layers at a time. Can I write a script that includes a “button press” of another script UI panel?

Two questions in one really.

I’m trying to automate part of my text highlighting animation process. Currently halfway there, and… Read more

TL;DR: Best way to wipe everything related to adobe off my machine, and do a fresh install of everything, but exactly the way it was, keeping all settings, plugins, scripts, scriptUI panels, User Presets, extentions etc.

I’ve been having so many issues with after effects lately. Every time I close the program, I get a crash report, every time I…

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I’m in the middle of creating a script/process, where I press a few buttons, and AE creates a fully working typography video based on a video file, and the transcription of the video.

Within this process, all words transcription are split up into seperate layers, with in and out points matching the word duration, based on markers that were applied…

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Didn’t know that! Brilliant, will take a look, thanks!

So, I’m having some really awful caching/preview issues. It seems when I have a heavy project, AE just freaks out every couple of minutes. Happens in most project/comps, unless things are REALLY simple.

So a few things are happening:

1.) I’m working away, and all of a sudden AE will just freeze up, become unresponsive (no error or window saying…

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I’d LOVE LOVE LOVE to get a condensed version of the preview bar. I’m constantly changing my preview quality, skipped frames etc as I’m constantly jumping from really heavy comps, to light ones.

The built in preview panel is unnecessarily big. And I’d love to free that space up for something else.

I’ve tried setting up buttons in Kbar2 to run the…

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Is there a way to remove the black from a layer without using the “screen” blending mode?

The layer is precomped, so back in the main comp, the black is showing up. I could continuously rasterize, but this is a pain and would require re-working some elements.

Is there an effect I can use to remove the black, that’s not keylight or other resource…

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Also, the expression gives me some jolting. Screenshot attached, not sure if it works, never added a photo on here before.

Would be nice to smooth() POST expression value. I stumbled across an old post from about 10 years ago that you had commented on (I’m pretty sure every thread I look at, you’ve helped someone, so thanks for being awesome).
You…

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This works much better. But I think I’ve found something that looks more natural. This is what I’ve been using on the Range Selector:

range = text.animator("Animator 1").selector("Range Selector 1").start;
k1 = range.key(1).time;
k2 = range.key(2).time;
w = wiggle(1,15);

if (time > k1 && time < k2) {t = w;}
else {t =…

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Hey Dan, seems like it could work great. But for some reason when I increase the randomness, some of the characters later on in the text layer are showing up before the characters before them. If that makes any sense at all!

Would still be too smooth, would need something random, not an ease. Testing some stuff, but I think I’ve found a way! Will update if I sort it 🙂

Is there a way I can use an expression to randomize the speed of value change between two keyframes?

Example: using a write on/typewriter effect. If you reveal from 0-100% linearly, its extremely unnatural. The manual way would be to go in and add keyframes to the range slider manually, to speed up and slow down the animation at random points.

Is…

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Is there anyway to reference the amount of colour and/or brightness of an unedited footage layer?

Say, lightning, or sparks from stock footage. If the lightening or sparks were very bright, there must be a way of referencing the luminance/brightness, or amount of a certain colour on screen at a specific time. Would be a great way to automate an…

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How would I go about doing this? I need to take position property from a certain layer with a checkbox effect ticked. But how do I reference this layer?

This is my current solution, surely there is a better option? It’s such an awful work around as I have to have the checkbox effect applied to every layer otherwise after effects gives me the error…

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Does something need to happen with Anchor point?

Thanks Andrei, unfortunately, still way off for some reason!

Hey Walter! This is great, I’m wondering if theres a way to stick to the bottom right edge instead of top right? Can’t seem to figure it out.

Hey Dan!

Is there a revised version of this expression for newer versions of after effects? For some reason, when I add the “right edge” expression, even with the gap at 0, its WAY off to the right. No other expressions or parenting. Using on 2 text layers.

Cheers!

Another note: not sure why this happens, but when I copy and paste expressions, AE…

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THIS!!!! Absolute gold dust mate. Exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thanks a lot!

I have a bunch of comps, and certain comps require different icons. Instead of manually going in and changing each icon for the specific comp, I’d to just drag all the icons into every comp and reference the contents of the comp name.

Theres video’s per section, every section has 3 video’s and each section has its own icon.

For one section of…

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Hi you lovely lot!!

I have a pretty complex scene with a lot of path animation. I always work in 24 fps and posterize afterwards to between 12-15fps to get a more hand drawn feel. However, sometimes, the posterize time effect messes with my path animations that I’ve been keyframing frame by frame. Things just aren’t in the correct place after I add…

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What frame rate is your composition? And have you exported at the same frame rate?

Has anyone had any problems with the new update?

I’m finding that previews cache, and then don’t play back. Timeline goes green, hit spacebar to stop the preview caching, and back to black! The only way I can preview anything is if I select “If caching, play cached frames”. The project I’m working on is VERY heavy, its a 16 video project with an…

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Morning all!

This may be very simple, or extremely advanced. I’m looking to condense an Animation/Effects preset I have made. I’d like to have it all work from just one or two effects in my effects panel. At the moment theres 18 effects stacked when I apply it, and it gets messy should I want to apply any other effects. Is there a way to condense…

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Hey Scott, sorry this was a while ago. I’m having trouble.

Should this work?

 var win = new Window (“palette”,”Comp Duration”,undefined);
var title = win.add(‘statictext’,undefined,”Seconds”);
var myTextSec = win.add(‘edittext’,[100,120,150,140],0);
var title2 = win.add(‘statictext’,undefined,”frames”);
var myTextFrames = win.add(‘edittext’,[100,120…

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Gotcha, thanks Michael. Would be nice to see everything while working, but choose to only view certain parts in a ram preview.

Hey all!

This may not be a feature, however, adobe says it is? It would be such a great help if it was.

Here’s where adobe says its possible. It says “To exclude layers from previews or final output, use the Video switch or make the layer a guide layer.”:

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/layers.html

Does anyone know how to do it?

Sami

Hey Dan, this is great. And defo working, I’ve just got a slight hiccup.

This is what I’m working with:

freq = thisComp.layer("WIGGLE").effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
amp = 30;
n = freq.numKeys;
orig_xPos = transform.position[0];
orig_yPos = transform.position[1];
ground = effect("Ground")("Slider");
if (n > 0 && freq.key(1).time < time){
  accum =…

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So, I’ve got a Null (Wiggle Null) controlling a whole scene. I’d like animate the wiggle so that it gradually gets more intense.

I’ve currently got the wiggle set up with 2 sliders controlling frequency and amount. This is how it looks:

wiggle(effect("Speed")("Slider"),effect("Amount")("Slider"))

However, when I animate the keyframes, the time…

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Hey all,

First off, I’m pretty new to the world of forums so forgive me if my message is a little messy or I’m not giving relevant info etc.

So, I’ve got a really decent PC:

i9 9900k

GTX 1070

M.2 nvme for Cache
32gb RAM

For some reason AE is really struggling to preview sometimes. However, if I restart AE, it speeds up. I also find that when AE is…

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I believe I’m using Dan Ebbert’s inertia scripts that has been modified by someone here:

“L ARM CONTROLLER”

<font color=”#999999″ size=”1″>//inertial children bounce (apply on “position”)</font>

<font color=”#999999″ size=”1″>n = 0;</font>

<font color=”#999999″ size=”1″>amp = 2;</font>

<font color=”#999999″ size=”1″>freq = 1;</font>

<font…

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I also would love to add a delay to this, I’ve got a layer parented to another “leader” layer. Said leader layer has some position keyframes, the inertia effect is working great, however, I’d like the child layer to also have some delay. I’m pretty new to expressions so am still trying to figure it all out!

What I’ve tried is using this… Read more

Hey Eduardo! Does this not work with any easing?