Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #47040
From: Phil Spitler <phil@bonfirelabs.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Script to display individual image sequence burn-in
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:16:43 -0800
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>, <stephen@sv2studios.com>
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If you put a text layer above your image sequence and apply this expression to the source text it will display the source name and the frame number (provinding it starts at zero).

newName = " ";

n=thisComp.layer(index+1).name;

for (i=0; i < n.length;i++) {


if (n[i] != "[" ) {newName=newName+ n[i]};

else break;

}

newName + timeToFrames(time);




Hope this helps.

Phil




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On Dec 13, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote:

I’m working with some long space image sequences (20,000+ frames) and need a quick way to identify a specific frame in a sequence. I need to hack some way for AE to tell me which filename of the imported image sequence is on screen, ideally via visual burn-in layer – but it appears AE can only reference the file name? The workaround would be doing math but that gets awkward very fast.
 
Is this possible in AE?
 
stephen van vuuren
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