Body: <p>Hello Fellow VFX / Motion Designers,</p>
  
  <p>I have spent a large amount of time going in circles trying to self-solve this one but time on the project is running low on time so I must ask the elder hive-mind for advice / assistance.</p>
  
  <p><em>I have a finalized marker-based-animation master composition that I need to template and build out.</em></p>
  
  <p><strong>The issue I am facing is that I cannot sync the 'root' Null layer's comments to the comments of their companion-nested-control Nulls.</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>There is 3 markers in total for each Nested Null - I only need to change the value of the middle / second ones</strong> </p>
  
  <p>Structure Example:</p>
  
  <pre><code> # Master Comp Layers
  
    - [NULL] Outer Control A.1 &gt; {Source for Null A.2}
     - Animation In Marker - Comment: "My Content"
  
    - [COMP] # Nested Animation A &gt; [Hidden/Shiied for organization sake]
      - [NULL] Inner Control A.2 &gt; {Target for Null A.1}
        - Timeline In Marker - Comment: [Blank]
        - Animation In Marker - Comment: "My Content"
        - Animation Out Marker - Comment: [Blank] or " " 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried a few of the free marker plugin's and available expressions to no avail - I think I'm missing something obvious here. They will copy and paste ad-hoc - but I need to setup a long-term link / sync here.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to clone a layer's marker's via script? Or is there a plugin that can set this up for me? </p>
  
  <p><em>Full disclosure: Of course - I do have to keep project overhead fairly low so I'd prefer a native / free-plugin way to do this.</em></p>
  
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 4.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2019-08-21T01:38:50.363Z
Comments.Text: So you want to copy the comments from the outer null to the second inner null?
Comments.UserDisplayName: stib
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 4.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2019-08-21T14:55:00.153Z
Comments.Text: Ideally - just not manually more then once and not every time I update. I have many nested compositions here and I'd prefer not to drill down through them all every single time to edit the source marker.
  
  
  Edit: I've seen applications where marker comments dictate what marker is used from a sub-comp. 
  
  
  Given marker comments are open for expression I was hoping there was a script or otherwise expression that I could apply that would automatically feed the comment text from my outer null to the inner nested null.
  
  
  Edit 2: I'm sorry for formatting - I can't line break in the comment
Comments.UserDisplayName: spaceleviathan
Tags: <after-effects><animation><after-effects-expressions><automation><after-effects-scripting>
Title: How to sync Markers Comments between root Control Null & nested-in-comp-Null / Layer
UserDisplayName: spaceleviathan
ThreadText: # How to sync Markers Comments between root Control Null & nested-in-comp-Null / Layer
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-08-19)
  
  Hello Fellow VFX / Motion Designers,
  
  I have spent a large amount of time going in circles trying to self-solve this one but time on the project is running low on time so I must ask the elder hive-mind for advice / assistance.
  
  *I have a finalized marker-based-animation master composition that I need to template and build out.*
  
  **The issue I am facing is that I cannot sync the 'root' Null layer's comments to the comments of their companion-nested-control Nulls.**
  
  **There is 3 markers in total for each Nested Null - I only need to change the value of the middle / second ones**
  
  Structure Example:
  
  ```
   # Master Comp Layers
  
    - [NULL] Outer Control A.1 > {Source for Null A.2}
     - Animation In Marker - Comment: "My Content"
  
    - [COMP] # Nested Animation A > [Hidden/Shiied for organization sake]
      - [NULL] Inner Control A.2 > {Target for Null A.1}
        - Timeline In Marker - Comment: [Blank]
        - Animation In Marker - Comment: "My Content"
        - Animation Out Marker - Comment: [Blank] or " " 
  
  ```
  
  I have tried a few of the free marker plugin's and available expressions to no avail - I think I'm missing something obvious here. They will copy and paste ad-hoc - but I need to setup a long-term link / sync here.
  
  Is there a way to clone a layer's marker's via script? Or is there a plugin that can set this up for me?
  
  *Full disclosure: Of course - I do have to keep project overhead fairly low so I'd prefer a native / free-plugin way to do this.*
  
  **Tags:** after-effects, animation, after-effects-expressions, automation, after-effects-scripting
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: So you want to copy the comments from the outer null to the second inner null?  
  > **username_0**: Ideally - just not manually more then once and not every time I update. I have many nested compositions here and I'd prefer not to drill down through them all every single time to edit the source marker.   Edit: I've seen applications where marker comments dictate what marker is used from a sub-comp.    Given marker comments are open for expression I was hoping there was a script or otherwise expression that I could apply that would automatically feed the comment text from my outer null to the inner nested null.   Edit 2: I'm sorry for formatting - I can't line break in the comment  
  
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