[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

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 steps set its height at first or the second row

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

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
}

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

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

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

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 params in the project, make sure to “lock” additional effects panel, that you would have access to it from all comps (might be doing this already though)

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

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.

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Jason, attachment is missing unfortunately. Do you have an idea how many dots you would want to have? it sounds like simple interpolation of points in Y could do it, but depends on how many points there to be.

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Sami, if you are experienced in scripting by some degree, inspect object model of the script UI you are dealing with.

If it has UI panel buttons defined globally, they can be accessed and triggered by [buttonObject].notify()

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Yoshiko, do you need to worry about perfect timing, when it comes to frames mismatch here and there because of conversion?

Also, how many comps do you have there and would you need a batch-process for it?

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Andrei – do you happen to know why they are different btw? As I always fail to remember which is which and have to dig through the resources, haha!

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Gotcha, thanks for clarifying! random() can be with reduce calculation frequency by using posterizeTime() and defining how much frames it should skip.

But see if Filip’s solution helps for your purpose!