Be aware that if you make a cut in mogrt, then you create N points to edit (if needed later), cause alt+drag creates a new instance of mogrt in a timeline. Plus, if there is any animation, it gets affected and no longer works as expected.

You can control this in Premiere, by adding a slider in AE, which defines animation start time (and ideally,…

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Vincento – describing what does not work could help to get into the issue without even running the code

Hello everyone. Have you faced situations where you add media/audio within protected region, but it still gets stretched?

This is very strange behavour IMO, because it works counter-intuitively than logic would tell.

Already tried:

1. Pre-composing media and timeremapping to make sure its ONLY in the protected region.

2. Fitting audio right under the…

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Hey Shebbe, one of the way how this could be achieved:
1. Getting length of the column.
2. Spinning a loop through all column values to find out the matching title.

However, it will be a slow process to render if you keep adding more and more lines to the doc.

Hey Joel, you should look exponential easing function, where “ratio of easing” could be adjusted

Hey Nick, there can be many ways approaching this.

One of which – creating a single-frame length images composition and timeremapping specific frame based on team name.

Hey Yoan, the problem is that even though two dimensional property is set to 2D, it reads three values?

propertyValueType actually returns a four digits number, specific for the property. If you are dealing only with transformations, you could use that number to specify counts.

Filip, thats exactly the thing – people wants this but they are not aware of limitations once its there, ha!

Anyways, I would guess it could be done in a few ways, very similar like text animators works:
1. By char index
2. By word
3. By line

Starting with only two styles to begin with, and then seeing how to make use out of it? Just an idea!

Filip, this looks amazing! One idea which goes into the head right after seeing this – how are you planning to control the index of font on words to be used?

You can add decimal by supplementing your expression by “.toFixed(X)” where X is number of decimals.

Once you change the font, you need to “.setText(YOUR_TEXT_VARIABLE)” in the style expression

Detlef, it should be possible with extendscript – the question is why/when you want to modify its size?

Hey Tudor, you are summing a+b at the end, in order to increase the endVal by additional 20?

Also, there might be a clash at time value of 1, where neither of a/b will meet the condition.

Depending on whether you want this to be also animated based on the amount of points in time (faster/slower animation), the idea can reach a bottleneck of complexity real fast.

But despite of that, try to get rid of nulls as Dan suggested – otherwise solution will be always limited by amount of nulls you create, manually, and not dynamic to the…

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Michelle, the best way to make this work is to have a separate shape, smaller than your existing one, matched ideally with existing shape’s corner (just with roundness). There is no way to make one-only round corner with native roundness keeping the shape as rect, as far as I known. You could also create a new shape, and mask it out except the corner

Hello guys! For a long time I wondered why comp size expressions doesn’t work the same way in Premiere as mographs?

Lets say you use shape in AE, by defining its horizontal size by thisComp.width. I would expect that by drag & drop into Premiere, you would get sequence-size based shape, but its not the case. Sequences are kind of equivalent for…

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As this is about Point Controllers as well, does anyone noticed that if you change composition size, even though point controllers are not connected with any width/height properties, they change their values based on the new ratio of the comp size?

So lets say you have point controller set to [1,1] and for simplicity have comp size of [1000,1000]

If…

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Hey Gerben, one of the ways to do it:
1. You can animate one receipt and link all variables from .csv with expressions.
2. To add to the first point, name the composition that it would have index like following: receipt-[index] So it would be receipt-0, receipt-1 etc.
3. Link your expressions at the first point by grabbing data based on receipt…

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Thats interesting, Paul! What to consider additionally, is how to make it work globally across multiple templates, or any templates at all. It of course depends on the complexity of them design wise, but I would suggest thinking about either manual-markup of some sort in the templates to know which variables to translate, or automated export based…

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Paul, as Templater is mentioned here I guess we should separate few things and what you specifically are looking into atm:
1. Ability to just change variables with data from external input forms (sheets, csv, json, etc)
2. Ability to actually make “translations” into different languages from the project.

As from the first post it looked like the…

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Hey Daniel,

with expressions, you can do it this way:
1. Take both layers sourceRectAtTime sizes of width;
2. Then compare as Math.max(layerA, layerB) or Math.min(layerA, layerB);
3. Based on above, you will know which is bigger. Then, change the scaling of the other layer by multiplying width difference ratio.

Hey Donna,

1. Apply text animation to the text layer for scaling.
2. Change the range from percentage to index.
3. Set start of range to be text.sourceText.length-1
4. Set start of range to be text.sourceText.length
5. Adjust scaling inside text animation to your preferred size – only last char will be affected.

Hey Remi,

few things based on your topics:
1. I wouldn’t recommend relying on indexing of files in a folder – simply because there can be hidden files, or if your naming convention is not consistent – incorrect sorting.
2. This would return all the files within a folder:

var allFiles = (new Folder(locationPath)).getFiles(nameMask);

Defining nameMask…

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Hey Paul, with scripting you could do a lot more than with expressions alone, as well as add different checks to make sure if layer should be translated in the first place (consider cases like text layer is used for other purposes than actual on-screen text, etc)

To put this into perspective, in order to replace words in the project, first of all…

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Hey Tom, at least if I understood the problem you are facing correctly, it shouldn’t be this way.

Basically, whichever controls you are adding in the essentials WILL appear as keyframeable options when that main comp is placed in other pre-comp – no matter of the depth levels (well, at least 4 on my sample project was not an issue)

The bottom line…

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Hey Karl, that is strange behaviour indeed! It seems that on Z it works only when the exact same expression is applied again.

I also checked in case there is some rounding happening – doesn’t seem to be the case neither.

Hey Rodrigo, try 3988 to see what it brings.
https://hyperbrew.co/blog/after-effects-command-ids/

In case if someone is interested in the topic further.

Setting 1000 keyframes on a slider with setValueAtTime() takes ~1.5s
Setting 2000 keyframes on a slider with setValueAtTime() takes ~3.7s
Setting 4000 keyframes on a slider with setValueAtTime() takes ~11s

Now with setValuesAtTimes() its a different story accordingly.

Setting 1000 keyframes on a…

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Hey Dan, thanks a ton! I never knew its possible to use setValueAtTime in plural! Will test it out and see how it goes – thanks for the hint!

Hey there! Have you noticed speed decrease in processing, when creating huge amounts of keyframes? If so, do you have any idea how to more efficiently do so, or its just a nature of JS framework?

If you ever tried running lots of scripts in a single run, you probably already faced situation of call stack build-up. Thus wonder if there are ways to…

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hey Adam, it would be great if you specify how you envision “pressing” and “cycle through” the letters.

You could setup 9 controllers, each linking to 9 text layers (aka, buttons on a mobile)

Then, check “Character Value” text animator in text animation engine. It has full-unicode or types-only controller, which cycles through the alphabet. So you…

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Here is an example of what I am making, to have a visual sense and clarity:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcNHOmBFS67

The goal was to make sure “zoom out” goes far enough that a whole path map is visible, but because of multiple parenting inside the master comp, I yet to find the solution.

Hey Jace. What object transparency we are talking about? Where and what you want to toggle on/of? Is it a layer in the composition? If so, do you select that manually, or how it will be decided what to turn on/off?

Or are you talking about transparency in they GUI?

Christian – how you are going to decide “which” words should have that effect?

Hey John, does animation just ends when extended in Premiere and remains static at the end, or how does it go? You mentioned original comp timecode – but is it end of last keyframe, or end of a whole comp?

Hey Ralph, one potential way could be by adding scripts into custom toolbar – while its not a hotkey, limitation is.. No limitation 😉

Hey Dan, thanks a lot for modified version of this! While I haven’t managed to make it work still, will try to break it down and see what could be the reason for it. Going to update here if figure it out, yet the setup I have is quite complex and unique for single-purpose I guess.

Hey Dan, thanks a lot for sharing! The way you described it gave me a thought to clarify it properly. But just in case, I tested your described approach and it indeed works – thus – thumbs up for that already! It fits.

I need to scale not the “shape” comp itself, but adjust the controller/null in the comp, that it would set/accommodate scale in the…

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Hey guys! I am thinking about approach to figure out scaling, that shape layer in a comp would be filled in the other comp’s boundaries.

Imagine a shape path, which is in a comp X [100×100] which takes unrestricted amount of space [250×250] (can be literally anything, [50×50] or [500×500], but I can’t resize it to fit inside this comp)

Then this…

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This looks amazing Filip, well done!!! And the good thing about it is that you made it as a preset – definitely something a lot easier for others to apply than understanding all the tiny pieces in a whole picture (less prone to errors when using – thus, less questions caused!)

Only possible if you put that XXX phrase in a temporary text layer and get the width from there. Side note – font family & style must be identical.

If your scale is uniform, just do this:

10000/thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).transform.scale[0]

Scale is a 2D array and it contains x and y value.

Elizabeth – something along those lines:

For your text layer’s Source Text:
text.sourceText + “|”

Then:
1. Apply Opacity Text Animator to the text layer;
2. Set opacity of animator to 0;
3. Set units in Advanced settings to Index;
4. For range selector, to start, apply this:
text.sourceText.length-1
5. For range selector, to end, apply…

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Hey Elizabeth – is font going to be changed in the mograph? Because if yes – then it wouldn’t work this way due to different heights for font families.

Instead its better to add characters with ascenders/descenders to the phrase, and eliminate them by text animator with opacity set to 0 for end characters (or apply ‘|’ to the end of all phrases in…

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hey Andy, while I am not aware of such online-service, what you are referring to for your own usage could be used in a few ways. Here are some:

1. Create a preset for repetitive actions and apply them from Effects Panel.
2. Use 3rd party tools like KBar or similar from aescripts.com
3. Create your own UI panel if its somewhat long-term beneficial.

Hey Adam, few things:

1. How distance will be decided before the “Available Now”?
2. What about cases when second line extends to the right as much that “Available Now” might get cropped?
3. Where you want font to be set?
4. How it is decided if its two liner or one?

Based on these, it might be easier to just create a new text layer and with few logic…

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Hey Yvonne, its as simple as making if/else statement in timeremap.

Pseudo code as follows:

if (frame > 0) {
//do your interpolation
} else if (frame > 250) {
//do your interpolation
} else {
//set default values when condition is not met or is in between, if needed
}

Sami, you need Extendscript debugger – by adding stop break points on the script, you then can inspect what “objects” are in active script and a global variables.

The button which we are talking about would be in a global app space.

Check this for how debugging works: https://extendscript.docsforadobe.dev/extendscript-toolkit/debugging-in-the-toolkit.html

Hey Jeff, in short – no easy way. Even if there would be a plugin for this, it should have somehow a list of all available effects applied everywhere in the project. Sounds a bit of a loophole.

As a bit of an improvement – instead of slider control, use checkbox – at least it will be on/off by a single click, not a slider drag. Also, when linking…

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You can do it by adding toFixed(X) where X is number of decimal places.

However, I assume you are working with thousands, and you need separator instead ofa decimal.