Improve Your AE Script Development Workflow With Sublime Text 2

Improve Your AE Script Development Workflow With Sublime Text 2

on Nov 21st 2012 with 7 comments
Tutorial Details

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

After Effects scripts development workflow can become really tedious when you don’t want to use the Adobe ExtendScript toolkit. With this Sublime Text 2 build system you will be able to instantly copy your script in your scripts folder and run it in After Effects.

Tutorial

Download Tutorial .mp4

File size: 174.2 MB

Update : Once you extract the .zip in your packages folder, rename it to AfterEffects.

 
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  • http://fabiantheblind.info/ Fabian

    Hi Sebastien,

    pretty cool Build System. Thanks a lot.

    But there is problem.
    If I download the zip from github.com it is called “After-Effects-Scripting-Sublime-Text-Package-master”. Your Build System points to a folder called “AfterEffects” within the ST2 packages folder. So ST2 can’t find that folder if I copy or clone it into the packages.

    So the “AfterEffectsScripting.sublime-build” has to be changed to point to the folder, or you must rename your repository.

    Cheers
    Fabian

    • http://twitter.com/sebastienLavoie Sébastien Lavoie

      Hi Fabian,

      Thank you for pointing out the problem, you are right. I have updated the Github readme for the moment stating that users should rename the folder to AfterEffects and I will work on modifying the build system to make it check for both folders names.

      Again thanks a lot,

      Sébastien

      • http://fabiantheblind.info/ Fabian

        No problem,
        anybody who wants to learn scripting has to deal with bugs sooner or later. So its more like the first task to master. : ) Again thanks again for the build system. I already forked it. Great thing!

        :fab

  • http://twitter.com/li_regli Zhiqiang Li

    Hi Sebastien,

    I like your build system.
    But I can’t get it work on my computer.I’m using Windows 7 sp1 ultimate 64.All I got is this,

    My AfterEffects is installed in “E:Adobe”,so I changed the path in “build.bat”.

    Anything esle should I do to make it work?

  • http://aescripts.com aescripts

    While “coding” in Sublime Text might be better than in ESTK, the reason you should use ESTK is because of the debugger. Using the technique you show above does not give you the debugger unless I am missing something. I would love to use Sublime Text if I can get the debugger to work with it.

    • http://twitter.com/sebastienLavoie Sébastien Lavoie

      You are right, it does not use the debugger’s tool (yet). It is, in fact, in my todos list ;)

  • 郭超

    中国一名热爱Ae的的人，好吧虽然不知道教程里面在说什么我也不懂英文，但是看样子很厉害O(∩_∩)O哈哈~HAHA