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Visual Studio Code Stuff
May 19, 2018
At this point, the majority of my work is in developing scripts for Adobe After Effects. The language used here (Extendscript) is a fork of ES3 from 1999. It’s old. This means that we’re limited to very, very vanilla javascript when we develop, with polyfills or helper libraries taking a lot of the headache out of this process. I use Visual Studio Code as my one and only code editor. Apart from providing a wonderful development experience, you can sort of…
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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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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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