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Expression prevents multi coloured text, how to fix
I have been looking around the Internet for a blinking cursor type effect. Found a couple different solutions, but this one worked the best for me :...
View ArticleRelative Path in Resource String
Hi, I'm trying to create an Icon Button in the UI of my script. I've been using a resource string and don't know how to write relative paths within a resource string to import the image. I can type the...
View ArticleImport a svg or eps file
Hello guys, I'm looking for method to import by scripting an .eps or a .svg file in AE.My goal is to display the file as a preview in the UI Panel and then draw it as a ShapeLayer in a...
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pseudo custom controls
I need a way to identify what type of Effect Control a custom control is from scripting.For regular controls I get the matchName property to see if it's a Slider, Checkbox, Group, etc.But for PSEUDO...
View ArticleExtendscript Toolkit freezes intermittently when linked to AE CS 2014
Whenever I have ESTK linked to AE CC 2014 I get intermittent freezes, during which ESTK becomes unresponsive for a few seconds. Unlinking it from AE eliminates these freezes, but this obviously means...
View ArticleSet a negative startTime for comp from script.
I have a script for processing footage where retaining frame numbers is important. In order to do this I need to set the start frame of the composition to a negative value. I was trying to do this...
View ArticleAdding flashplayer in UI Panel on Mac
Hello, I'm getting an error on mac when adding a flash player in Panel UI as below: var flashPlayer = palleteObj.add("flashplayer"); Unable to execute script on line 1. Uncaught exception add. Does...
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Scrollable panel gets truncated
I am trying to add a scrollbar to one of my panels (something I have tried for many years unsuccessfully). I stumbled across Peter Kahrel's ScriptUI documentation and he has the following working code...
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Reload prefs...
Hey there, Im back! Is there anyway of reloading prefs in AE without restart ? I have a bat file in windows killing and restarting AE to make it as quick as possible while I edit the prefs file...
View ArticleRun a script from Make, headless.
This has come up for me a few times, and each time I found some other way around it. But I'm sure it's possible, I just havent found the incantation.I want to run an AE script totally headless (no UI,...
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Comp viewer in UI
Hi, Is there any way I could dynamically extract screenshots from the comp viewer to include in my UI ? Thanks
View ArticlePossible to get total duration of keyframe animation from preset file (ffx)?
Is it possible to retrieve the duration of all keyframes that are stored within an ffx animation preset? I didn't see anything directly about retrieving that data, but I thought that it might be...
View ArticleИзвините, я бы хотел узнать, как мне привязать начало слоя к началу анимации,...
Извините, я бы хотел узнать, как мне привязать начало слоя к началу анимации, чтобы когда я изменял левую границу слоя, ключ двигался тоже используя javascript
View ArticleCreating more than 10-15 comps in a loop makes AE unresponsive (depending on...
Hi,I hope someone can help me with this, since I tried to dig through just about every resource I could find, but still no solution. I am fairly new to scripting (started some 6 months ago, watched...
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Procedure "window.close()" do not working corectly?
Hi Everyone!I noticed that the procedure "window.close()" in my scripts is not working properly. This procedure works for the first time only. // TWO WINDOWS TESTING var win_1= new Window("palette",...
View Articleapp.findMenuCommandId() with ampersand (&) in name
Trying to use app.findMenuCommandId() to launch a script but it doesn't seem to work if there is an ampersand in the name. Is there a way to escape the & or otherwise make this work with names that...
View ArticleIndication of a long process with UI (How to organize time-consuming loop in...
Hi all! I recently noticed that some of my older scripts in newer versions of AE have stopped working properly. I'm talking about progress more or less long processes. It can be to add a large number...
View ArticleTrim layer to last keyframe
I want to create a script that finds the last keyframe on selected layers (for various properties) and then cuts the clip at the last keyframe's time. How would I go about doing this? I'm just starting...
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weird timing issue when setting in an out points of nested comp
ok, so this has me totally stumped. I have 9 comps which are a sections of a larger sequence. Each of these section comps has a null layer whose in an out points act as a kind of workarea for that...
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I can't seem to set the inpoint of a layer in a script
It's pretty simple, vidComp.layer(5).inPoint = 0; Doesn't change the layer's inPoint. Any ideas? Thanks
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