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Walter Soyka
April 17, 2020 at 7:10 pm in reply to: Script for activating and deactivating layers accross project?

pt_TextEdit can do this (for text layers, specifically).

https://aescripts.com/pt_textedit/

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
April 16, 2020 at 5:46 pm in reply to: numerical adjustments of paths?

Try the “Create nulls from path” script that’s included with Ae:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/animating-shape-paths-masks.html#CreateNullsfromPathspanel

This will give you a set of nulls that control each of the points on your path, so you easily access their position parameters, set up a parent to manipulate scale, apply expression, etc.

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
April 16, 2020 at 11:55 am in reply to: Is there a way to make a .mogrt-like After Effects template for reuse *inside* After Effects? Sick of duplicating comps dozens of times for minor changes.

Yes, you can, via the same Essential Graphics workflow. In Ae, instead of using a MOGRT, those Essential Graphics properties are exposed as “master properties.”

See the official docs here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/master-properties.html

And the unofficial, very visual ones here:
https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/master-properties-after-effects/

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
April 6, 2020 at 8:03 pm in reply to: Can After Effects create a MOGRT with footage replaceable in PP?

I agree! This capability is sorely needed.

You can add your vote for such a feature here:
https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/37350961-please-enable-placeholders-in-mogrts

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
April 6, 2020 at 2:29 pm in reply to: Translating 1 set of measurements to another…

Jordan, here’s a quick Excel sheet to help you translate from Ae number ranges to ATEM number ranges:

14077_linearinterpolation.xlsx.zip

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
March 18, 2020 at 10:49 am in reply to: Expression from parent comp layer to child comp layer not synced to timeline?

To do this with a simple expression, you’d have to calculate the time offset between the comps and use .valueAtTime() with that offset to override the default timebase. It’s not super-trivial to do, it’s hard to maintain, and everything breaks again if you have multiple copies of the precomp at different times in the main comp.

Instead, I suggest you use master properties. If you expose the path size parameter from your precomp as a master property, it will become available when you twirl open the precomp layer in your main comp, and you should be able to use a simple link expression entirely within your main comp.

This will help make it clearer:
https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/master-properties-after-effects/

And here are the official docs:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/master-properties.html

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
March 17, 2020 at 5:21 pm in reply to: Scripting – Keyframes not moving properly.

1) Is this just a fragment of your entire script? It’s not clear to me from this what the i, j and k variables are meant to store.

2) The flow control in your for() loop is incorrect. See here for a quick overview of how the loop should work:
https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_loop_for.asp

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
March 17, 2020 at 10:22 am in reply to: How to add Range Selector to opacity NOT IN ANIMATION

Sorry, Glenn, I’m having a hard time visualizing what you want to do. Can you explain a little more about what you are trying to accomplish instead of how you are trying to accomplish it? Or maybe post a screenshot?

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
March 16, 2020 at 7:39 pm in reply to: Exporting Animated Gif becomes distorted/noisy

The GIF format relies on massive palette reduction (plus additional optional lossy compression), so you may never be able to get this perfectly pristine.

I think that GifGun generally does a better job than Media Encoder for producing animated GIFs:
https://aescripts.com/gifgun/

Walter Soyka
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Walter Soyka
March 16, 2020 at 7:38 pm in reply to: Scripting: Change layer marker attributes

It is a bit weird. The documentation doesn’t make this super-clear, but markers are basically a special kind of keyframe, and keyframe values are set with .setValueAtTime(). Not only that, but markers use a MarkerValue object as their data type, so if you want to change the comment text, you have to do so by creating a MarkerValue object to contain the comment.

Walter Soyka
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Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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