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Extendscript Toolkit: Setting default document text
May 11, 2017
When I use ESTK, I always want to start with the same foundation, setting up an IIFE so I can play and not fuck with AE/ESTK global scope. For this example, the snippet below is what I want to start with. Note: This involves editing ESTK Required files. Edit at your own risk! These files are located here on Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC\Required Method 1: Prepopulate temp file on Startup 01startup.jsx, line 246 If you only want…
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CEP: Logging Errors
October 3, 2016
When working on Flow, we were looking for a way to log standard JS console errors to a file, so that if something broke we’d be able to quickly diagnose the problem and fix it in a patch. Straightforward enough! However, as the CEP standard is evolving, we found that there was some discrepancy in behaviors between different versions of AE with respect to how to enable logging and where the log files are saved. With any luck, this can help. The CEP documentation mentions that there are many Chromium Command Line Switches…
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Download: Per-Version AE Icons for Windows
July 21, 2016
Because I write scripts, I keep a whole bunch of different versions of After Effects installed. This can get a little unwieldy, considering the icons don’t change much between versions! With this in mind, I quickly whipped up some alternate AE icons for Windows (I don’t know much about icons on MacOS, so no idea what size/formats are needed, sorry!). They’re fairly pixely, just trying to keep the same dimensions and form factor of the existing. In the zip, there…
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Preset: Shape Layer Inner Stroke
August 3, 2015
Shape Layers. Strokes. You know how they work– add a stroke, and it’ll increase in width both internally and externally from the path. But what if you want to preserve the outer edge of your path, adding strokes internally only (a la Illustrator?)
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Preset: Point on a Circle
In a throwback to Points Along A Line from several years back, here’s a quick expression for ya– “Point on a Circle.” Straightforward, yeah? Yeah.
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ExtendScript: Delete Saved Settings
July 22, 2015
Working in ExtendScript and need to delete a setting you’ve saved to your users’ preferences file? Did some looking around and it seems there was no way. Until now! Found that you can use the method to delete settings. Just need to target it with the prefix “Settings_”, and save the prefs file afterward, but otherwise seems to work just fine. The only caveat here is that the section header will remain, however that seems to have no negative effect. var sectionTag = “testSectionTag”; var…
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Script: Explode Shape Layers 3!
April 27, 2015
Hey all! Mid-Februrary I pushed a major update to Explode Shape Layers, turning it into an all-in-one shape layers toolbar. Want to know more? Check out the download link below, or check it out in my portfolio.
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Workflow: Cloud-Syncing After Effects Addons
November 11, 2014
I have a laptop. And a desktop. My laptop has AE CC2014, CC2012, CS6 on it, and my desktop has all of the above, plus CS5.5. That’s a lot of AE! Now, one thing that comes up very, very quickly with having multiple machines (or even multiple AE installs) is that all of your scripts, presets, plugins and even your workspaces have to be set up from fresh every time! As a word of warning, this is a fairly technical…
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Netflix Genre List (by agid)
August 15, 2014
This is completely irrelevant to motion design, After Effects, expressions and scripts, as a disclaimer. Recently, while working at home, I’ve been going through a lot of Netflix. I usually keep media playing all day while I work, as a type of focused white noise. As part of this, I’ve been watching a tonne of food-related media. Fiction, non-fiction, historial fiction, documentaries – as long as it’s about food, cuisine and/or cooking, I want to watch it. Now, Netflix has this great system of dynamic…
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Preset: linear() – Syncing Precomp Audio to Main
February 18, 2014
The Idea OK, so, you’re working on an amazing infographic piece slated to become the best thing out there since that Stuxnet video. You’ve got your master comp with the audio bed in place, and have a series of precomps w/ audio & graphics sequenced and arranged together in your main composition. You’re working away on your project, have everything in each precomp chapter timed out and synced properly with the audio, and then… your client wants to re-record the…
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