Audio Markers in AE Project

[goofy687]

I'm trying to get audio markers into the AE project. I have saved the audio using Adobe Audition, which has a marker. Now when i bring this audio to AE project. I need to go to LAYER->MARKER->UPDATE MARKER FROM THE SOURCE. After this the marker shows up in the timeline.

Now I want to achieve the same using expression or a script. How do I 'UPDATE MARKER FROM THE SOURCE' using a script or an expression ? Is this possible?

[Mathias Moehl · Accepted solution]

An expression cannot do that (it can only set the value of the property it is applied to but cannot change anything else in your project).

Scripts can execute arbitrary menu commands as follows

var commandId = app.findMenuCommandId("Update Markers From Source")
app.executeCommand(commandId);

Note that this only works with the English user interface version of Ae. If you use another UI langauge,

you have to enter the respective translation of "Update Markers From Source".

Also make sure the layer is selected before executing the code.

Also note that with our extension BeatEdit for After Effects, you can create beat markers easily direcly in After Effects.

[Roland Kahlenberg]

Markers from PPro are brought over into AE — not too sure about Audition to AE.

There is also the case for preoperly setting up XMP metadata for such interchanges. More info here - https://helpx.adobe.com/audition/using/viewing-editing-xmp-metadata.html#viewing_and_editing_xmp_met...