[Sebastian Rasche]

Thank you very much Walter!

[Sebastian Rasche]

Nobody asked for compassion Dave. I usually save my client projects accurately. But sometimes you doodle around in after effects and forget to save. That’s where a little startup script would come in handy. Thought somebody knew something.

[Sebastian Rasche]

Somebody on facebook even shared a simpler expression.

R = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime();
T = R.top;
L = R.left;
W = R.width;
H = R.height;
[L+W/2,T+H/2];

[Sebastian Rasche]

Somebody helped me out with this expression:

boxTop = this.sourceRectAtTime().top; // Position of top of text box
boxHeight = this.sourceRectAtTime().height; //Height of textbox

boxLeft = this.sourceRectAtTime().left // Position of left of text box
boxWidth= this.sourceRectAtTime().width; //Width of textbox

//Offset anchor
[boxLeft + boxWidth/2 , boxTop + boxHeight/2 ];

I had a another problem to accour though because I had a text effector on there which screwed with the calculation of the width.
So with the following expression it looks at the text at a certain time. I this case the 50 second marker.

boxTop = this.sourceRectAtTime(50).top; // Position of top of text box
boxHeight = this.sourceRectAtTime(50).height; //Height of textbox

boxLeft = this.sourceRectAtTime(50).left // Position of left of text box
boxWidth= this.sourceRectAtTime(50).width; //Width of textbox

//Offset anchor down from boxTop using half the height of the box
[boxLeft + boxWidth/2 , boxTop + boxHeight/2 ];

[Sebastian Rasche]

Thanks for the reply but it is not working for me unfortunately.

[Sebastian Rasche]

Not 100% sure but this script might come in handy: https://aescripts.com/elastic-comp-changer/

[Sebastian Rasche]

I am in the market for a new computer as well and I am going with the 8700k because of this article:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/After-Effects-CC-2017-2-CPU-Performance-Core-i7-8700K-i5-8600K-i3-8350K-1055/

Cheers

[Sebastian Rasche]

Have a look at this: https://www.omnislashvisual.com/keys-smoother-credit-rolls-w-template/

[Sebastian Rasche]

Im gonna leave this here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AfterEffects/comments/5hal6s/100_cpu_utilization_multiple_simultaneous_frame/?st=j70grom0&sh=3d8f067d

Cheers

[Sebastian Rasche]

awesome! it works now and is sitting perfectly within my ft-toolbar. Thanks!