[Tom Ma]

AE plugin yanobox nodes does exactly what you are looking to do.

https://www.yanobox.com/Nodes

good luck.

[Tom Ma]

traveling from center point outwards in radial direction.

[Tom Ma]

without a workaround, no. If it’s a 3D layer, and camera DOF is on, it gets what the camera is set to.

workarounds:
render without object you want in focus, then
render again with object solo’d and cam DOF turned off. (comp’ing and mattes might be needed to pull off, dunno your scene)

make your layer you want sharp, not a 3D layer and “fake” whatever about it would happen in 3D space. again, don’t know your scene, might work, might not.

[Tom Ma]

I did find this script (below) it turns off all guide layers project wide.

now if I could only change the script to turn off all layers of a certain label color, rather than guide layers.

for (var h=1; h <= app.project.numItems; h++)
if (app.project.item(h) instanceof CompItem)
for (var i=1; i <= app.project.item(h).numLayers; i++)
if (app.project.item(h).layer(i).guideLayer) app.project.item(h).layer(i).enabled = false;

(& obviously I could change = false to = true to turn the layers back on.)

[Tom Ma]

thanks Walter.. and great script. I tried the demo, however some of the layers are not text, rather images related to the other language.

I haven’t found anything that will work.. kinda surprised it has never come up.. seems like a common type of task.

[Tom Ma]

Thanks Kevin.. yep, I posted in aeenhancers as well.
also looked at zorro.. it is good, but cannot operate project wide, only active comp it seems.

seems like a pretty common thing.

[Tom Ma]

Thanks mucho!

[Tom Ma]

use the paint tool.
in the paint menu, under duration, select “write on”
2 keyframes will be created for the start and end of your stroke.

The pain tool is pressure sensitive, and works really nice.. give it a whirl.

[Tom Ma]

that is good to know. Are the other limitations also removed.
(I forget the exact effects, but there were a handful.)

[Tom Ma]

I have it!
nice tip, thx.