Zorro-The Layer Tagger

posted on September 12th, 2008 by lloyd in Scripts    17 Comments »

Zorro makes selection and isolation sets easy and possible in after effects by adding  tags to layers.  Similar to the way you would tag photos in Flickr, you can tag layers in your comps and then select or isolate those layers in groups by using the tags.

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Random Layer Selector

posted on August 20th, 2008 by lloyd in Scripts    No Comments »

Random Layer Selector

Randomly selects layers. There’s 4 options for how many layers are selected randomly:  You can randomly select most of the layers, many of the layers, not many and finally you can have it randomly select very few of the layers.

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Nth Layer Selector

posted on August 11th, 2008 by lloyd in Scripts    2 Comments »

photo © thiwenquicha via Flickr

Based on a user request over at the creative cow, Nth Layer Selector will select every Nth layer.  
If you have a set of layers already selected it will select every Nth layer from within that selection otherwise it will select every Nth layer from the whole comp.

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Create Trimmed Adjustment Layer

posted on June 6th, 2008 by lloyd in Scripts    6 Comments »

photo © haircutsz via Flickr

Based on a user request here on aescripts, CreateTrimmedAdjustmentLayer will create a new Adjustment Layer and trim it to the range of the selected layers.

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Trim to Layer Above & Trim to Layer Below

posted on May 27th, 2008 by lloyd in Scripts    4 Comments »

photo © Stephen Train via Flickr

Based on a request over at http://aenhancers.com Trim to Layer Above will trim the layers that are selected to be the same length as the layer above it. This should be useful for track mattes, glows, tint layers, adjustment layers, difference layers, etc.

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Layer Chain

posted on March 18th, 2008 by lloyd in Scripts    No Comments »

Parent layer to one above

Based on a request over at aehancers.com this script takes the selected layers and parents each one to the layer above it.

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Layer Handles

posted on March 18th, 2008 by lloyd in Scripts    No Comments »

Layer Handles

Adds a user definable number of frames to the in and out points of the selected layers.

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Layer Random Shifter

posted on February 28th, 2008 by lloyd in Scripts    9 Comments »

Random Layer Shifter PaletteLayer Random Shifter

Randomly shifts the selected layers in time within user defined range.

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3D Layer Distributor

posted on June 12th, 2006 by lloyd in Scripts    2 Comments »

Super simple script that distributes layers in 3D space within set ranges. (you can set the ranges by editing the script)

Download: 3D_Layer_Distributor

Layers2Grid

posted on June 12th, 2006 by lloyd in Scripts    1 Comment »

Arranges Selected Layers in a Grid with a choice to arrange them by Rows first (Left to Right) or by Columns first (Top to Bottom). Layers should all be the same size.

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Fit2Frame

posted on August 30th, 2005 by lloyd in Scripts    No Comments »

Fits selected layers (they can be different sizes and pixel aspect ratios) proportionally to fill the Comp frame by giving you the choice of either cropping or letterboxing.
Download: Fit2Frame