After Effects Scripting For Beginners [2022]

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can you make a tutorial about: selecting path inside shape layer and copy it so i can easily past it into position of other layer

Can't thank you enough bro 💙. Please upload more such videos.

// Create an array to store the start and end points
let points = [];

// Function to enable the tool
function enableTool() {
// Prompt user to select starting point
let startPoint = prompt('Select a starting point');
// Prompt user to select end point
let endPoint = prompt('Select an end point');
// Push the start and end point to the array
points.push({ startPoint, endPoint });
}

// Function to export the video project
function exportVideoProject() {
// Iterate over the array containing the start and end points
points.forEach((point) => {
// Create a new video project from the start and end points
let videoProject = createVideoProject(point.startPoint, point.endPoint);
// Export the video project to a media encoder
exportToMediaEncoder(videoProject);
});
}

Do you know where is more info on UI for this API? Not even the official documentation mentions a single thing about things like window, button etc

Hello Nate and thanks for your very helpful videos !
I am a AE scripting beginner and I have a really dumb question (can't find an answer anywhere) : When you instal your .jsx file in the SriptUI Panel of AE you can launch it from the Window pannel, that's nice. But! Each time a launch my scripts that way I get an empty dockable windows named the same way than my script...
---> How can you create a Button in that window that can launch your script ?

Amazing AE/Javascript INFO! Much appreciated

You are freaking incredible dude. I've been an AE user for years but have little knowledge of scripts or expressions. Discovering this info after all these years of using AE makes me feel pretty dumb but better late than never. My goal is to become proficient in javascript and expressions in 2023 so I'm gonna be spending a ton of time watching your videos. Any tips on learning this stuff faster? I want to be a beast like you.

Can't execute in vs code. This error coming in it. "Unable to find Adobe After Effects executable defined in settings. Make sure you have that path set-up correctly."

LoL i started learning scripting less than 2 hours ago and now i know a whole bunch of things

How do you add custom button Icons and Branding in the Script window? Like a professional Script?

Hi! Thanks so much ! 😁😁👍👍

When I use "palette" like you did, it opens for a second and immediately closes. It only works fine when I use "dialog."

That's really well explained, thank you !

Hey Nathan. Thanks for the shout out for Adobe Script Runner. Appreciate that. However, I just want to clarify one thing - you don't need to have ExtendScript Debugger extension to be installed in order to run Adobe Script Runner.

Goat!

Thank you so much, it's very usfull.

Tak!

can you run AE headless ? Or it's always open ? Can you import it in to a JS program or it's something you run inside AE only ? Thanks

Thanks so much for all your tutorials. I need help with the script, when I start I get the error

"Error Code#21: null is not an object @file'/c/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8/AE%20Scripts/LoopScript.jsx' [line:33, col:1]"

what could be a mistake? Thank you in advance!)

WOW! Super Great tutorial.

bro how can i make it pre compose each layer

Thank you so much!

dude, you deserve so many more views. I know it is a niche market as few people even are trying to get into scripting and plug-in development, but you are my hero for all the work you do to keep us on this journey with you.

Hi Nate, Thank you for a great tutorial. How can I select multi layers and comps in the Project panel? then get alert their names… for example?

Hi Nate, I couldn't understand exactly why do you prefer Adobe Script Runner on ExtendScript? Kindly explain it a bit.
As far as I use ExtendScript it seems more fast to execute the script and omits that extra step to select the program to run the script and just needs to select target engine once. Also if you don't set up the jsonconfig.json file then it won't require you to set the script path everytime and works just fine without this file.

Thanks so much for all your tutorials and creating a new 2022 guide, Nathan! 🙏 A huge help for us coding newbies.

Thank you, this is very helpful.

Thanks a lot for all the effort you put into sharing the knowledge with us.

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