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Posted: **December 27th, 2010, 6:25 am**

Hi all,

I'm trying to write a script that will (among other stuff) duplicate my selected layers, which is a camera layer and a footage layer. Then I would like to to do different things to them, say adjust the position of the camera and adjust the rotation of the footage. I think I can find the duplicate part, but could anyone point me in the right directio how to "seperate" camera layers from footage layers so I can assign stuff to them individually?

Posted: **December 27th, 2010, 8:51 am**

Hi Simma,

Layers are objects so you can test to see if they are instanceof's known objects like this:

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var selLayers=app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers;

for (var i=0; i<selLayers.length;i++){
    if(selLayers[i] instanceof CameraLayer) alert("Layer: \""+selLayers[i].name+"\" is a camera");
    if(selLayers[i] instanceof AVLayer) alert("Layer: \""+selLayers[i].name+"\" is an AV layer");
    }

-Lloyd

Posted: **December 27th, 2010, 8:52 am**

btw, to figure out what the object name to test against is, just do an alert on the layer and it will tell you what it is within brackets like this: [AVLayer]

Keep in mind that these are case-sensitive.

-Lloyd

Posted: **December 28th, 2010, 4:02 am**

Thank you Lloyd, you (and this site) is very helpful. I did search for info about this but couldn't find any.

Don't know if this is correct, but it worked for me;

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var selLayers = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers;

for (var i=0; i<selLayers.length;i++)
    if(selLayers[i] instanceof CameraLayer){
   var myCamera = selLayers[i]
   var dupCamera = myCamera.duplicate();
    
   
} else {
    var myLayer = selLayers[i]
    var dupLayer = myLayer.duplicate();

 }

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