Hi knubile, I haven't found a way to force a refresh while a script is running, other than dumping the info to the ExtendScript Toolkit's console or Info panel. Are you updating a statictext control? If so, does it work any better if you use an edittext control (assuming it'd be OK for your needs)? ...

I'm not aware any ability to create outlines via scripting.

Jeff

Is this the Timecode track in a QuickTime movie or burned-in timecode? I'm not aware of anything available to do either via scripting.

Jeff

I'm not aware of an elegant way to do this (e.g., an onProjectOpen callback). If you're using AE 7, I suppose you can run a repeating task (app.scheduleTask()) that polls app.project, but note that in 7 there's always an open project (i.e., app.project != null). Also, although you might want to chec...

Hey Byron,

I can get it to stop working on line 84 if my comp has a camera layer, or other layer type that doesn't have source data. Be sure to test comps containing other layer types, like lights, text, etc.

Hope this helps.

Jeff

I'm not sure at this time if I'll be able to attend this year, but please keep us informed if there is sufficient interest in a BOF meeting.

Jeff

Hi ScottG,

If you are using AE 7, you can use the Item parentFolder attribute which is now read/write; it was read-only in AE 6.5.

Jeff

Hmm, I can sometimes see the error you're talking about in the try block and othertimes get the error in the catch block. See if changing the OM reference from outputModules[1] to outputModule(1) to see if it makes a difference. Also, are you doing this in AE 6.5 or 7? If in 7, are you launching the...

Hey Byron, The "e" is the Error object. It looks like you're trying to print it out as a string along with your message. If so, use e.toString() or e.message (e.name would return "Error"). If you're just wanting your error string, then don't prefix the e variable to it. Otherwise...

Hey Byron, Because those templates are referenced by name, that's the only way I know of to detect for the existence. I had to do something similar (add a temp comp to the RQ) in my rd: Render Layers script (http://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_RenderLayers) to retrieve the list of availabl...

Hi Mike, I'm not aware of any method to get this info. Although you can make some assumptions about the file name based on the footage item's name (e.g., if it contains a range in brackets, it might be an image sequence. However, if you didn't import the entire sequence, or you renamed the footage i...

Hi Scott,

I'm not aware of a way to set a layer's label.

Jeff

Scott, First, why are you wanting to define variables in this way? The "parameter" is just the local name for the value that you pass into the function, so if you're wanting names based on it, just type them out as you want. If you're passing in a name (prefix) and you're wanting to create...

Scott, Most of my JavaScript knowledge I learned as part of web development, either from books like the JavaScript: The Definitive Guide book by David Flannagan or what I could find on the web. As for AE-specific scripting resources, I list the ones I'm aware of in the "additional scripting res...

Hi Scott, In general, the script works in certain cases. However, if you need to make the script more robust so that it can handle other layer types or conditions, here are a few notes: - [line 43] Need to use comparison operator: myLayers.length == 1 - [lines 51-53] Be sure to check different layer...