Layer Repeater

Easily animate offsets in space and time for multiple layers
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Description

Easily animate offsets in space and time for multiple layers

UPDATE!

There is now a version 2.6 of Layer Repeater.

I have added controls to leet you offset layers in time! Shift them, offset, randomize, and loop them all you want. Enjoy!

Also, this version has a new effect called LayerRepeater_2_6.ffx, so it shouldn't interfere with old versions.

After unzipping the file, you will have:

  • Layer Repeater v2-6.jsxbin
  • A folder called layer_repeater_effects
Simply copy both to your ScriptUI Panels directory (application or user) and restart After Effects

Instructions:

  1. Run the script from the Windows menu
  2. Select the layer you want to duplicate
  3. Choose how many layers you want to make a copy of
  4. Choose if you want the layers to have 3d properties or not
  5. Click Layer Repeater GO!!!
    • There will now be a composition in place of the layer you wanted duplicated
    • There will also be a null added to your composition with controls to affect the duplicated layers


After running the script, you will be able to animate offset and random parameters of many layer properties. These include:

Anchor Point

Position

Rotation

Scale

Opacity

Animation through time with a frame offset


Included in the download are full descriptions of all the properties that Layer Repeater can control.

Discussions

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Version History

2.6.6 -

Dec 4, 2022

Support added for layers with the position property separated

2.6.5 -

Aug 14, 2022

Added a .manifest file to help installation wehn using the aescripts + aeplugins manager app to install

2.6.4 -

Dec 1, 2020

Fixing a small bug in the time remapping expression that could sometimes cause the expression to error and not evaluate

2.6.3 -

Jun 27, 2020

Adding in files to retain partial compatibility with After Effects versions older than CC 2019. Older version back to CS 6 should now work again, however they will not have any time remapping features that were added in Layer Repeater v2.6

2.6.2 -

Jun 16, 2020

Updating script file name for compatibility

2.6.1 -

Jun 13, 2020

Fixing a bug in the time remapping controls

2.6 -

Jun 12, 2020

Adding new controls to let you offset layers in time

2.5 -

Oct 6, 2019

Adding button to duplicate the Repeater comp

2.4 -

Sep 7, 2017

No longer need to be admin to install.

Added checkbox to reverse order of layer stacking

2.3 -

Dec 17, 2013

Performance upgrade. Added an active checkbox for "Random"

If you don't need random amounts, disable it and everything will perform faster

Compatibility

After Effects

2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6, CS5.5, CS5, CS4, CS3