Thanks Dan, i found the solution by doing it this way:

        try {
            var transformAnchorPoint = transformEffect.property("ADBE Geometry2-0001");
            var transformPosition = transformEffect.property("ADBE Geometry2-0002");
            // Detect type of layer
            var isShapeLayer = layer.matchName === "ADBE Vector Layer";
…

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Hello everyone,

I’m working on a script for After Effects where I apply expressions to properties of the Transform effect (not the layer’s direct transform properties).

I’m trying to apply expressions to properties of the Transform effect (transformAnchorPoint and transformPosition), but it seems the expressions are not being applied. The effect i…

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Hi Dan,

Thank you so much for your suggestion—it worked perfectly!

The problem indeed stemmed from the fact that manipulating keyframes was affecting the state of the selected properties. Following your advice, I modified my script to first collect all selected properties and their keyframes before making any changes. By processing the collected d…

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been trying to use the onDraw function in After Effects for a button, and everything works fine except for the mouseup event—it doesn’t seem to trigger.

Here’s my script:

var icons1 =  { normal1: "base64_encoded_image,  
        disable1: base64_encoded_image,   
        pressed1: base64_encoded_image,   
        rollover1: base64_…

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Hi everyone,

I’m working on an After Effects script that aligns selected keyframes (or layers) to the playhead (Current Time Indicator). While it works well when keyframes are selected from a single property, the script only processes the first property when multiple properties with selected keyframes are involved.

Here’s the section of the script t…

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Please read my post, i was talking about icons for a script ui. Thanks anyway

Hi everyone,

I’ve recently encountered an issue with scripting in After Effects where buttons seem to disappear unexpectedly. I’ve been working on a script that involves creating custom buttons for user interaction, but I’ve noticed that sometimes these buttons vanish without any apparent reason.

I’ve meticulously checked my code and ensured that…

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Hey everyone, I’m trying to incorporate SVG icons into some buttons, but I’m struggling to figure out how. I came across a post explaining it, but I’m still having difficulty understanding the process. Could you provide a straightforward example of this intricate code?

https://github.com/adamplouff/scriptui-battlestyle/blob/master/BattleStyle_Tester.jsx

Thanks Dan, now it works!! But there is something weird tho, when i undo (ctrl+z) the file go back to the start of the timeline and i need to undo again to delete it, how can i modify the code to use just one undo?

Hello guys, i’m trying to add a file (mp3) wich i have imported in the after effects items panel. I want the button to add a specific file to the timeline in the current time, but everytime i click the button it says that the file is not imported in the project (but it is). Can you guys help me? Wha am i doing wrong? Here is the code:

function…

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Hi, i want to create an After Effects Script UI with a button that toggles on/off, when you press it a notification (alert()) pops up every 20 seconds with a message, you can click “ok” to close that pop up and every 20 seconds the same pop up will appear, if you press the on/off button again the pop up stops opening, is this even possible? I…

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Hello guys, i’m going crazy with something that i think is really simple but i don’t know how to achieve it, i’m trying to make a Script with a button that when you click it:

1. The script will copy the original anchor point value of the selected shape layer’s “Transform” to the “Anchor Point” properties inside each content group.

2. Then, it will reset…

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Hello Dan!! Thank you for your reply, i tried what you tell me and it works perfectly, but the problem is that i want it to be applied to any selected shape layer (or layers) no matter how many shapes and groups are inside this layer/layers, that’s why i was using that recursive property navigating function but i don’t know how to merge that…

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Hello guys, i don’t know why my code is not working, anyone can help me?
I created a button that add dashes to selected shape layers, and it seems to be fine but is not working.

buttonDashes.onClick = function (){
app.beginUndoGroup("Set Dashes");
                    var project = app.project;
                    var comp =…

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Hello guys, i’m creating a ScriptUI with 4 buttons, and they are in a row orientation, what i want is to them change from “row” to “column” if the window gets resized, right now i have a piece of code that is working, but it changes all the buttons at once, i want them to change position one at a time.

I mean, the button 4 will go down first,…

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Thank you Andrei! It works pefect now, i forgot to ask another thing, after the layers got pre-composed i want to enable the time remapping of that precomp, so, is there a way to do it? Because i need to add something like “if the selected layer is already a precomp then don’t pre-compose it, just enable the time remap”.

Hello guys, i’m trying to create an script ui with a button that does this:

Add an expression to any selected properties, but if you are selecting a layer (or multiple layers) instead of properties then pre-compose that layers, i don’t know if this is possible, but the code should be working, and it doesn’t, it adds the expression to selected…

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Thank you again Andrei, this was exactly what i was looking for!

Thank you Andrei!! That is exactly what i need it, you are the best!

Hello guys, i’m having trouble adding some text to my “About” window inside ScriptUI, i have seen some scripts that when you click the “?” button it opens up a window and have a white box with text info (link of the script, etc), i have my about window and it opens up a new window but i don’t know how to add that “white box” with text.

I want…

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MY GOD, you are a life saver Dan! Thank you so much.

Hi guys, i’m trying to create a button that when you click it a checkbox would change it’s state, if its “false” then it will change to “true”, and if it’s “true” then it will change to “false”. I got it working but the problem is that only works once, then no longer changes, i want it to change everytime i press the button, what am i doing…

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Also, i’m trying to change the colors but i can’t figure it out how to access to “Stroke 1” and “Stroke 2”, i tried this:

if (subProp.matchName == “ADBE Vector Graphic – Stroke”) {

subProp.duplicate();

subProp.content(“Stroke 1”).color.setValue([0,0,0]);

subProp.content(“Stroke…

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Thank you! This works perfectly, but is there any way to just duplicate it one time? I don’t want to duplicate everytime i press the button, something like “if this layer has Vector Groups with Stroke 1 and Stroke 2 then DON’T duplicate strokes”?

Hello Andrei, thanks for your reply, unfortunately i’m still getting the same result (nothing happens), i don’t know if there’s a different approach to this, i want to duplicate the stroke of any selected layer (for every vector group) and then change the color of each stroke (assign 1 color to stroke 1 and another color to stroke 2).

Hello Guys, i’m trying to duplicate the “Stroke” in every vector group of all shape layers selected, but it’s not working, i don’t know what i’m doing wrong, this is the code:

app.beginUndoGroup("myScript");
                var myLayers = comp.selectedLayers;
                for (var i = 0; i < myLayers.length; i++){
…

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This is freaking amazing!! Thank you so much, this will save me tons of time.

Hello guys, i created a slider UI to control the opacity of my layers, and it’s working fine, but there’s a problem, if the property has a keyframe (the stopwatch enabled) the slider control stops working. I’m trying to make it work in both scenarios, if there’s no keyframes then change the opacity value of my layers, and if there’s a keyframe i…

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Hello guys, i have an AE Project with 50 compositions, in each composition i have 2 shape layers, i need to apply one .ffx to the first layer, and apply another .ffx to the second layer, i need to do this in all 50 compositions, so i think the best option is to do it automatically with a script, can you guys help me?

Thanks for your reply Andrei, unfortunately my script keeps having the same bug, I was hoping I wouldn’t have to rebuild everything from scratch but I’ll take a look at that ScriptUI Dialog Builder, thank you!!

Hello guys, i’ve just created an script UI and its working fine but every time i close After Effects and open it again the script stops working, it became like a shell, buttons without any functionality, and i only got 2 options to make it work again, 1: close the script and open it again. 2: change the working space to any other and go back to my…

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I figured it out with this:

var durationIn = myLayers[i].Effects("ADBE Slider Control")
                ? myLayers[i].Effects("ADBE Slider Control")
                : myLayers[i].Effects.addProperty("ADBE Slider Control");
                durationIn.name = "IN";
var durationOut = myLayers[i].Effects("ADBE Slider Control")
                ?…

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Is there any way to apply the same Ternary Operator to this line of code?

var durationIn = myLayers[i].Effects.addProperty(“ADBE Slider Control”);

durationIn.name = “IN”;

I want to add to each selected layer a slider control named “IN” but if i run the script again i don’t want to add another slider control named “IN”, i just want to…

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Oh nevermind, it was the “;” that i was keeping at the end of “var myTrim…” so the ternary operator was missing the condition, but now is working perfectly, thank you so much!!

Hi again Andrei, thank you for your reply, i tried the code but i’m getting a syntax error saying that “?” doesn’t have an assigned value. What i am missing?

Thank you Andrei!! This is what i need it, but there’s a little problem, if i execute the script again it will add another Trim Paths to each selected layer, i just want to have 1 Trim Path, no matter how many times i execute the script, any way to fix this? Something like “if this shape layer already has a trim path then don’t add a trim paths”,…

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Hello guys, anyone can help me to add a Trim Paths to any selected shape layers? I just want to add ONE trim paths to each layer, no matter how many shapes it has inside.

Any help?

This is the property path to the Trim Paths:
layers[i].property(“ADBE Root Vectors Group”).property(“ADBE Vector Filter – Trim”)

I also want to access the “Start” and “End”…

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Thank you Dan, it works perfectly!

This was exactly what i needed, thank you so much Dan!!

Hello guys! I’m trying to create a script that does this:

Step 1: Enable Time Remap of a precomp ( or all precomps selected)

The time remap automatically creates 2 keyframes, so…

Step 2: Go to the last keyframe and go back 1 frame, create new keyframe and delete the last keframe. Example: a precomp of 10 seconds (25 fps) would have a keyframe on…

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Hi, i have an AE Project with 40 compositions inside, this compositions are name “01”, “02” and so on… What i need is to have 40 AE Projects with 1 composition inside each one, is this possible? Anyone can point me in the right direction? Is there any script that makes this?

Thank you so much Dan! This is exactly what i needed, you are such a pro!

Hi! I’m trying to create a script that converts all the expressions to keyframes, i have a bunch of layers with expressions in the “Position” property, and i need to convert it to keyframes.

I found this post: https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/bulk-convert-expressions-into-keyframes/ where Dan wrote a code but i’m trying to run it and i get…

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I make it work but only for 1 shape element of each shape layer, i want it to work in any shape layer no matter how much elements it has inside the Groups.

This is what it works:

var project = app.project;
var comp = project.activeItem;
app.beginUndoGroup("Process");
var myLayers = comp.selectedLayers;
for (var i = 0; i < myLayers.length; i++){
var…

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Hi, you know if there’s any way of doing this for ALL the shape layers that you have selected? Some shape layers may have more than 1 object inside, so what should i do?

Hi guys! I don’t know what i’m doing wrong, this should be working, anyone can help me?

I’m trying to change the “Butt Cap” of selected shape layers to “Round Cap” but i can’t figure it out why is not working, here is the code:

var project = app.project;
var comp = project.activeItem;

app.beginUndoGroup("Process");
var myLayers =…

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Hi Dan! i finally achieved what i was looking for.

This was the modification that i did:

var myCompTime = 0;
selLayers[i].startTime = (selLayers[i].inPoint = selLayers[i].startTime) + myCompTime + i * offset;

You know how can i do to sequence layers AND keyframes? I mean, right know is working fine with layers, but i want it to work also with…

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pt_ShiftLayers by Paul Tuersley, what i mean is that the thing that i want to achieve has been already achieved by other scripts, but i can’t figure it out “how”, i need to know the “how” because i want to use this function in a custom script for the Motion Designers community. I was explaining the “why” i don’t use this script by Paul Tuersley,…

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It was working before, when i had this code:

selLayers[i].startTime = (selLayers[i].inPoint = selLayers[i].startTime) + i * offset;

But now that i have changed the “=” to “-=” it becomes static, i mean, if i click on the “Execute button” of the script it works but that’s it, it doesn’t add a new value to the already sequenced layers, because there…

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Thank you Dan!! Now it’s working perfectly, but there’s another thing that i want to add, it is possible to keep adding the sequence to the already sequenced layers? Example: i sequence the layers by 5 frames, if i click it again now they’ll be sequenced by 10 frames, and if i click again they’ll be sequenced by 15 frames, and so on… is it possible?