How to automatically select every Nth layer?

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How to automatically select every Nth layer?
by marina tsaplina on Aug 11, 2008 at 7:40:00 pm

Hello,
i have over 150 ai layers- is there a way to select every 5th one, or every 4th one, or every 20th one, etc?

thank you.

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Re: How to automatically select every Nth layer?
by Lloyd Alvarez on Aug 11, 2008 at 11:27:58 pm

Hi Marina,

I wrote a script that will do that. You can get the script here:

http://aescripts.com/scripts/NthLayerSelector.jsx.zip

The script will select every Nth layer from within a selection of layers or if no layers are selected it will select every Nth layer from the whole comp.

To use scripts copy the file into the Scripts folder in your AE folder, restart AE and run the script from the File->Scripts menu.

-Lloyd

http://aescripts.com

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Re: How to automatically select every Nth layer?
by Serge Hamad on Aug 12, 2008 at 4:58:37 am

LIoyd! Thanks a bunch for this one;-)

always be a fan of your great stuff;-)

Salut.
Serge

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Re: How to automatically select every Nth layer?
by marina tsaplina on Aug 12, 2008 at 2:15:37 pm

WOW thank you! i guess you NEED to learn how to script if you really want to MASTER after effects....

thanks so much.

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