[Scott Smith]

Hi Filip,

Thanks for these ideas. Curious to try the posterizeTime(0) method — does this basically tell that text layer to refresh only on the first frame, and never again? Sneaky.

Re the parsing in expressions vs the timeline — I am currently reading the JSON in and addressing the objects i want on every expression. I’m also parsing layer names and property names to help address objects I’m pulling from the JSON. For instance, if the json looks like this:

"obj1" : {
    "obj2" : {
        "obj3": { "dataToReturn" }
        }
    }

I have expressions like this, on a layer called “obj2_obj3”

jsonFile = footage("myJson.json").sourceData;
obj1 = thisComp.layer("obj1").text.sourceText;
addr = jsonFile[obj1][thisLayer.name.split("_")[0]][thisLayer.name.split("_")[1]];

So, at the end, addr = myJson.obj1.obj2.obj3 = “dataToReturn”.

I have stuff like this happening in dozens of expressions simultaneously. Is this what you mean by “parsing in the expression” vs. “adding data to the timeline”?

[Scott Smith]

Hi all, reviving this thread since I just hit this issue for the first time, and I had 28000 images in a sequence that threw this error. In case my solution is useful for others — I found the batch conversion feature in Irfan View worked great. Just “converted” them to JPEG (they were already JPEGs, but whatever) and they worked great in AE.

[Scott Smith]

Hi there–did you ever make any progress on this? I have exactly the same problem–I am trying to scale objects in a “scene” composition according to values in a second composition, nested within the first. In my case, the nested composition is an infinite loop that makes it look like a camera zooming out from a grid forever, and I want to scale objects precisely without looping them.

Thanks for the clear first post!