Comments on: rd: Pre-compose

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:32:52 +0000

Jeff -

Yes, that’s exactly what I was trying to say. That would be great thing. Hope it can be done.

Thanks!

Dave

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By: Jeff Almasol

Jeff Almasol — Mon, 30 May 2011 05:00:32 +0000

hi dave… if i understand correctly, you want it to behave just like “Move all attributes” does manually, but just trim the precomp layer to match the original layer’s in/out points?

if so, i’ll investigate how difficult it’d be to add that option.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:15:43 +0000

I’d like to see this script have the option to work as I would normally work when trimming pre-comps. When Move all Attributes is selected in the regular AE pre-comp window, a pre-comp is made the length of the composition. I’ll then trim that pre-comp to be the length of my original layer(s). Now, when I jump in to that pre-comp, I stay in the same place in time as the original comp.

The way this script works, it creates a pre-comp that starts at frame 0 (and you can see the start and end marks on the pre-comp, instead of the comp being the actual length of the composition, but just trimmed down). So when you jump in to the pre-comp, you are no longer at the same place in time as the original comp. This is not as useful usually.

Any way this option could be added?

Thanks!

Dave

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By: Jeff Almasol

Jeff Almasol — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:43:05 +0000

hi erik… sounds like you’re doing everything correctly. one thing to try is double-click the comp in the Project panel to make sure it’s Composition panel is the frontmost panel, then try the script again. also, just to confirm, are you running the script from the File > Scripts > Run Script File menu command?

By: Erik Waluska

Erik Waluska — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:11:23 +0000

Hi, I just installed this and tried to run it but nothing happens. Tried several times using various options in the dialog but nothing makes any difference. I just selected several layers File>Scripts>rd_precompose. I’m on Mac OS X 10.6.6 with CS5. Am I doing it wrong or something?

By: Jeff Almasol

Jeff Almasol — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:26:33 +0000

hi dustin… the only way to launch scripts via keyboard shortcut (at least natively within AE) is if you assigned a shortcut to the Run Script #n commands in KeyEd Up, and made sure the script that you wanted to launch is in the Scripts folder (not Scripts/ScriptUI Panels subfolder) and named such a way that it’d appear in the first, second, third, etc. slots of the File > Scripts submenu. maybe some other script got installed and moved into the previous place that this script existed in the submenu? that’s all i can think of.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:47:25 +0000

Previously I’ve been able to launch this script with a hotkey using Keyed Up, but suddenly it no longer works. I’ve tried reinstalling the latest versions both of rd_Pre-Compose and of Keyed Up, but can’t seem to be able to launch it with a hotkey any longer. Anyone have any ideas why this might be?

By: cafe

cafe — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:41:24 +0000

thank you for the batch option. lovely

By: Jeff Almasol

Jeff Almasol — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:59:57 +0000

yeah, should be. just forgot to add the CS5 icon to the page. i’ll ping lloyd about that. thanks.

By: diego

diego — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:51:52 +0000

IS this script cs 5 compatible?

By: Jeff Almasol

Jeff Almasol — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:34:21 +0000

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.

By: Jose Negrete

Jose Negrete — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:14:11 +0000

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…