Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #44099
From: Chris Zwar <chris@chriszwar.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] make comp timecode start at 0 not offset from parent
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 08:41:53 +1000
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
As the others said, you can set the timeline start in the comp panel.
However if that's not exactly what you meant, maybe this script will help you out:


It's a crude hack together of a Dan Ebberts / Brian Maffit script from a few years ago that makes the precompose function work exactly the way I've always wanted it to :-)
If you follow the original thread at AE enhancers:

http://aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=51

you'll see that all sorts of people have modified the precomp feature to customise it to their wishes, including naming options etc.  I keep meaning to update my script to include a better naming option (I think the version linked to above has a hard-coded name from the project I was working on at the time) but I'll get around to it one day...


-Chris

On 05/06/2012, at 5:55 AM, mike cardeiro wrote:

I am on cs6, coming from cs3.  Is there any way to have my precomposed composition start at timecode 0?  This is how it worked in cs3, now if I precompose a layer that does not start at 0 in the parent comp, my new precomp starts at a negative number.  I do a lot of 3d rendering and need to now absolute frame numbers...yes I can do math but I would rather just look at my comp time and see the atual frame number I am looking at as opposed to this negative number sillyness.
 
Mike Cardeiro
Editor/Animator/Compositor
D4 Creative Group - Philadelphia, PA
215-483-4555
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