Creative COW | Steve Lewis | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/stevelewis/activity/ Activity feed for Steve Lewis. Mon, 04 May 2026 21:37:15 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 a09f117f749eebe5726b2ae5775821fa Steve Lewis replied to the discussion Wrapping multiple layers in a rectangle, then dynamically aligning the rectangle in the forum Adobe After Effects https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/wrapping-multiple-layers-in-a-rectangle-then-dynamically-aligning-the-rectangle/#post-2449541 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 14:25:06 +0000 Reply to Wrapping multiple layers in a rectangle, then dynamically aligning the rectangle

Thanks for the reply, I’m trying to build a re-usable preset so it’s needs to be very adaptable and can’t involve needing specific stacking order etc.

However I have found a solve if you’re interested, I was finding that the toComp function was breaking things no matter how I approached it, so I’ve essentially written my own function that is…

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]]> 5bcc0ae1103c7e11a2832c7621c7899b Steve Lewis started the discussion Wrapping multiple layers in a rectangle, then dynamically aligning the rectangle in the forum Adobe After Effects https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/wrapping-multiple-layers-in-a-rectangle-then-dynamically-aligning-the-rectangle/ Sat, 26 Aug 2023 22:38:21 +0000 Wrapping multiple layers in a rectangle, then dynamically aligning the rectangle

Hey all, I have a bit of a tricky challenge here and was wondering if any geniuses can help me out.

I’m essentially trying to make a setup where I have a rectangle shape layer, this shape layer will wrap around any other layers that are parented to it, ie. this shape layer rectangle will extend its left side to the furthest left point of all the…

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]]> 072e3d0df9eea5c4d7447c2a9ce53fe0 Steve Lewis replied to the discussion extendscript socket error on mac only in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/extendscript-socket-error-on-mac-only/#post-2412037 Sat, 19 Jun 2021 23:30:11 +0000 Reply to extendscript socket error on mac only

Same issue for me, returns true on PC, false on Mac, when looking at conn.error, it just says “I/O error” nothing more, I’m wondering if everyone on Mac is facing this issue?

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