Hi all, just wanted to share a new tutorial series I have launched today that I think a lot of you may find helpful.
We've all posted here in this forum looking for help with scripting. There are many reasons why too. One of which that keeps making the rounds is the lack of documentation for ExtendScript. When I first started scripting for After Effects five years ago, the CS3 guide is all there was and it did contain the proper information, but as a newbie I was unable to understand the guide to get any real help from it. I didn't know Javascript then and I was super frustrated. Asking questions and searching forums like this was my only option really. No real training existed, that I'm aware of, that truly covered how to use ExtendScript. That is, until now. I have spent the better part of my weekends over the past year recording this training series to give the After Effects community a decent collection of information in one place to help get people started in scripting. This series comes in at over ten hours in length and is being released in segments on a weekly basis as of today. There is a lot to cover in ExtendScript and I do cover much of it. I'm unable to hit 100% of it as I too am still learning some of the more advanced aspects of it. I do cover however the basics of Javascript, looping through project items, creating folders, creating comps, creating layers, reading various project information, building GUI's, creating/reading txt documents, etc...
If you are a newbie looking to learn ExtendScript, a frustrated artist who's confused by programming, a script developer looking for more info, then at one point or another I believe this series will help you.
The first three episodes begin here:
http://provideocoalition.com/news/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-1-2-3
Keep an eye out for more posts each week. thanks, and I hope you find this resource useful.
-David Torno