ae script to find and isolate active layers under playhead

Question

Im not a scripter just an after effects editor looking for a script..I sometimes open comps with hundreds of layers and tracking down the source layer(s) of what im seeing on screen takes up a lot of my time and energy. Im looking for a simple one trick script that will isolate whatever layers are active under the playhead bar. I imagine this would work similar to the search timeline feature "ctrl f" in that it would instantly (with a quick key) hide all layers except those under the playhead and over 0% opacity. I found a script plugin called reveal layer but it seems very complex and after watching 3 videos i cant verify that even does what i need. Any suggestions?

Mylenium · Answer

There is no such script because there is no simple internal function call for it. Any script will completely have to rebuild this functionality from scratch which has the ill effect of missing relevant layers under certain conditions or showing layers at a wrong time. Sorry for the bad news, but you have to accept those limitations. For most simple comps those auto-select scripts should work, though. Things may just get wacky once time-remapping or otherwise manipulating time comes into play like nesting comps with different framerates or using expressions.

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