rd: Pre-compose
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This script displays a dialog box for pre-composing one or more layers (like the built-in Pre-compose dialog box), but adds the ability to trim the pre-comp to the selected layer’s duration, with optional trim handles.
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Known issue:
- Using the “Leave all attributes” option on a single selected negatively stretched layer doesn’t trim the layer correctly.
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- rd_Pre-compose UI
Originally requested by Gary Jaeger.
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How does this differ from Precomp-ToLayerDuration.jsx? The ability to add head and tails?
Hi Navarro… Doing some quick tests with one of my projects, it seems Chris Zwar’s script doesn’t have head/tails support, doesn’t trim to exact duration (it places the precomped layers at the start of the nested comp), doesn’t have a “Leave all attributes …” option, and doesn’t seem to handle negatively stretched layers correctly. There might be others, but that’s what I’m noticing so far.
I’m also working on an update that allows you to precompose each layer separately (basically, a batch mode), but that’s still farther out.
Awesome script. Thank you. Just curious, why does it disappear every time I use the script? I select it from the window and it appears and works as advertised, but once the script has been activated the pallet goes blank and I have to deselect from the Window menu then reselect to make it reappear. The pallet needs to be reset for each use.
Hi Syd… This script’s UI is a modal dialog box, not a dockable panel, so it’s not intended to be installed in the Scripts/ScriptUI Panels folder or to be run from the Window menu. Just run it from the File > Scripts > Run Script File command or, if you’ve installed it in the Scripts folder, from the File > Scripts submenu. Hope that helps.
hello,
a suggestion: modify the script to make it possible to pre-compose multiple layers separately: a trimmed composition for each layer!
thank you for the useful script!!!
hi marco… it’s been a popular suggestion for a batch mode. i’ll add your name to the existing request. thanks!
Any news on the feature requested by marco? It has been a pain so far selecting each layer individually and running the script (selecting corresponding boxes aswell) in a composition containing 100s of layers. I tried using different versions @ http://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=51. But none trimmed the layer + the parent composition accordingly as Pre-compose does.
Nevertheless excellent script. Thank you very much!
hi angelo… unfortunately, nothing new at this time. work’s been quite busy lately, so haven’t had much free time.
Very useful script. Thank you! This is saving me so much frustration. It makes you wonder why Adobe didn’t think of this.
CS5 ready?
hi navarro… should be. are you on CS5 and seeing something wrong?
:jeff
In CS5 doesn’t work. It opens a tiny, tiny window with no possibilities of clicking nothing due to its size…
In fact, I must force quit from After…
hi jose… i think what you’re seeing is a problem with some scripts (not just mine) that open on Mac as a short, thin window. you should be able to resize the window by clicking/dragging the lower part of this short window to the lower-right. it might take a few tries to hit the window’s edge.
i think by making the window non-resizable it’ll fix it, but i’ll see if i can find a better workaround. (i’m away from my Mac for a few days, though.)
thanks.