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Check if Effect is Installed?
So I'm automating a lot of complex tasks involving RevisionFX's Twixtor plugin, and I'm testing to see if twixtor is even installed in the first place. It works just fine but it's very slow since I'm...
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After Effects cs5 - need Dodge and Burn tool effects in some area of a picture
HiAre theretoolsinAfter EffectsCS5having the same effect as"Dodge Tool"and"Burn tool" i Photoshop ?Ihave 2facestofadefrom"Layer1" to "Layer 2" but there are somedarkareas of"Layer1"I need tolighten,...
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Free Function Friday Release Date Announcement
Back in April of 2013 I began releasing the After Effects ExtendScript Training Series . For over two years many After Effects users have written to me about this series with questions, and thanks for...
View Articlequery timecode display
Is there a way to query wether the user has set their timecode to display in frame or not? If not can anyone think of a clever way to test for this.
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Comparing two Arrays and generating a new Array.?????????
Hi guyscan some one solve this problem. plz... Say i have two arrays, one is String Array and other is selectedLayers array with same source names(a,b,c) selected in after effects.Now i want to...
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Script for duplicating layers and set new positions
hello everyone I have some problems with scripting in After Effects. I decide to begin with scripting for a better workflow. I tried to make a script which duplicates selected 3Dlayers.The number of...
View ArticleTrying to launch program from Command Line
Hello! I am trying to figure out how to get programs to launch from the Command Line. Been searching around on google for days and haven't found any solutions that are working for me. Here's the code...
View ArticleCC 2015 HTML5 panel issue
Oh, I almost forget it. In cc2015,my html5 panels couldn't work at all,none of them except the new Adobe Color Theme in Supporting Files folder. I can not find any panel changes in After Effects...
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How to make XMP metadata added via extend script appear in AE Metadata Window?
Hi all, I add xmp metadata via extendScript to our AE files when a script is executed. The metadata is being written and saved in the file just fine and I can read the data via extend script....
View ArticleCopy to Clipboard
I have a script that generates a text file.I can save it just fine, but I need to be able to also copy it to the system clipboard.It needs to work on whatever platform a user happens to be on: Windows,...
View ArticleDockable Script Size Problem
I have this simple script here and the bounds are not working for the window size. I would also like to make the long text at the bottom move a line down at a certain length so that the window is not...
View ArticleIs it possible to call a hotkey command from script?
There are a handful of commands I'd like to access from script, however, there don't seem to be any ways to do so. For example, I would like to trigger the Timeline command to "Scroll topmost selected...
View ArticleSet a negative startTime for comp from script.
I have a script for processing footage where retaining frame numbers is important. In order to do this I need to set the start frame of the composition to a negative value. I was trying to do this...
View ArticleUpdating UI Elements based on External Actions
I have a script that I am trying to update based on selecting a different effect. So let's say for example you have a Box Blur and Curves effect applied to a layer. The script recognises what you have...
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Search a layer by a part of its name
Hello community!I'm working on a script and at some point it has to get me a layer according to some parts of the layer's name.I know the way to find the exact name with the line:...
View ArticleExtendscript Toolkit freezes intermittently when linked to AE CS 2014
Whenever I have ESTK linked to AE CC 2014 I get intermittent freezes, during which ESTK becomes unresponsive for a few seconds. Unlinking it from AE eliminates these freezes, but this obviously means...
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Wrote my first simple script, any critique is welcome.
I am new to javascript and coding in general but have been learning over the past few months thanks to Dan Ebberts, David Torno and Processing. My creative director asked me to write a script that runs...
View ArticlePosterize Time Changing Frame Rate Problem
Hey guys, I'm looking at this issue with my code. I'm trying to set the frame rate value of a Posterize Time effect.I am having issues with it not being defined. I have done the same process with other...
View ArticleInterpret Footage > change Framerate with script ?
Hi guys, I'm importing image sequences with my script, recreating the local folder structure.All this works fine, but now I would love to add a framerate option. To maybe specify a different framerate...
View ArticleHow to apply animation preset to a selected or all layers through a script?
Hello all, I have several layers and I want to apply a random animation preset to each layer through a script.I know how to apply an effect, for eg. [somelayer].property("Effects").addProperty("Block...
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