[Syed Iqbal]

Hi Dan, as always, your solution works like a charm. Thanks a lot.

[Syed Iqbal]

Hi, I really appreciate your comments, but I just want to reiterate that the “letters” precomp that has those 26 layers of images (alphabets) is the one that has my quoted expression on time remap keyframe. This precomp should ideally use text layer’s source text property (which it is capable of right now but only for a single character) to show multiple frames of this precomp at once in order to display a word which has more than one characters on the text layer. Your monospaced font rings the bell but first I want to be sure if it is really possible to display multiple frames of a precomp at once.

Thanks again for showing your willingness to assist and by sharing your valuable advice.

[Syed Iqbal]

Hi Brian,
Thanks for being of help as always. You said set of curved splines, does it mean those curved spines are contained within a matrix or clone object? Another thing which intrigues me is the fact how end points of each spline are laid down in such a way that we do not see any gap or misalignment between those 9 pieces of logo image. Is there any such trick to align these splines perfectly?

[Syed Iqbal]

Thank you so much Dan. It works like a charm!

[Syed Iqbal]

Hi
I just want to understand how to I write a very small script which could make the active layer’s font style property to bold. I want to assign a keyboard shortcut to my script file later on so that I can save tons of time of doing it through mouse.

From one of Dan’s code, I tried to manipulate fontStyle property by using setValue method but it does not work.

var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var myTextLayer = myComp.layer(1);
var mySourceText = myTextLayer.property(“ADBE Text Properties”).property(“ADBE Text Document”);
var myTextDoc = mySourceText.value;
myTextDoc.fontStyle = myTextDoc.fontStyle.setValue(“Bold”);

Again what I am trying is to set the font weight of text layer from Regular to Bold. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Syed Iqbal]

Hi Katryna, Thank you so much for your response.
I never used this feature “Essential Graphics” before, so I watched a few tutorials but what I understand this feature is for making templates. If you don’t mind can you send me tips showing various steps of getting it done? I could not relate it to my task of copying and pasting text in After Effects. And by the way final count of my similar video last time was 1344 layers.

[Syed Iqbal]

Imagine you have to work with 800+ layers in After Effects, then a script like like to handle these 2 operations through one shortcut key (as I know we can define a shortcut key for scripts also) will be a big time saver.

[Syed Iqbal]

I have similar problem. What format did you get? Lib4d or executable installation file?

[Syed Iqbal]

Hi Kevin,
It has worked like a charm and I tried it on Bullet Train preset to test it. Thank you so much Kevin.

Some 3rd party or external presets I believe would not allow to make these alterations which are probably locked by the author of those presets. In other words only few expression controllers for example like amplitude, frequency, decay, delay and cycle time are some of those things that we can change, not the offset, mode or shape of

For example when I tried to make these changes on a 3rd party preset one of the parameters named “Amount” has some code in the expressions area that begins with something this “eval(‘@JSXBIN”

Regards,
Syed

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Hi Walter,
Thanks for your tip. I will give it a try one more time. Do you think when you have so many layers, more than 900 of them, you might experience this issue? Is there any limitation on number of layers you can keep visible on timeline?

Again, the playback was showing these layers i composition and selecting a hidden (seemingly) layer and using in and out point shortcut keys were also working fine, the only thing I found irritating was not being able to see it’s normal behavior.

Thanks again for your time.

Syed