Automation Blocks - Toggle Transparency Grid

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December 5, 2022
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Hello, I want to use the Change Transparency Grid mode for the background for multiple or active compositions, but I didn't find it in the Set attribute blocks in AE Comp and AE Project Items. It doesn't exist, or I couldn't find it.

Thank you.

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Mathias Moehl

Community Expert

Unfortunately, Mylenium is right. Ae scripting has no function for that and hence also Automation Blocks cannot do it.

And you can execute menu commands, but as far as I know, this only works reliably for menu entries of the main menu of Ae.

Mathias Möhl - Developer of tools like BeatEdit and Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro and After Effects

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PolyArtboardAuthor

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Thank you both. I'll try to find another way.

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PolyArtboardAuthor

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app.activeViewer.views[0].options.checkerboards = true; // making comp background color disable, checkerboard enable
app.activeViewer.views[0].options.checkerboards = false; // making comp background color enable, checkerboard disable

@Mathias Moehl Can you add this as a block or a set attribute choice?

Thank you to Tomas Sinkunas (RenderTom) for this scriptlet: AE Script: Clean View — Bitbucket

Mylenium

Legend

Actually it just seems to fire a menu command as per this document:

https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/AECC2015_MenuIDs_v1_0_1-1.pdf

There's no dedicated script command otherwise, at least as far as I'm aware. That means you can already do that with Automation Blocks.

Mylenium

Legend

I don't think it is accessible by scripting at all, so even Automation Blocks can do anything about it.

Mylenium

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PolyArtboardAuthor

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Thank you, @Mylenium, I have the MoBar script and can do it with the scripting, but I can't use it with Automation Blocks. For the batch process, I need to use Automation Blocks.

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