Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects and Particular for visual aid.
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Run Time: 29:38 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
- Introduction To Writing Scripts Day 1 – Expressions
- Introduction To Writing Scripts Day 2 – Expressions
- Introduction To Writing Scripts Day 3 – Javascript
- Introduction To Writing Scripts Day 4 – Photo Wall
- Introduction To Writing Scripts Day 5 – Photo Wall
This is the second tutorial on the road to generating script files for After Effects. I read the comments from Part 1 stating that those are expressions, not actual Javascripts. I figured, to learn what Javascript does from scratch, you have to understand expressions first, because you can immediately see what the changes do. There will be one more tutorial on placing layers with expressions, then we’ll move on to actual scripts. In this tutorial you will learn how for-loops can help analyzing several frames in order to customize effects.
Tutorial
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The Whole Series
- Introduction To Writing Scripts Day 1 – Expressions
- Introduction To Writing Scripts Day 3 – Javascript
- Introduction To Writing Scripts Day 4 – Photo Wall
- Introduction To Writing Scripts Day 5 – Javascript
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Thank you for this post and tutorial !!!
nice tut ………thnx a lot………
Thanks for the tutorial.
One question…at around 6:40, you are discussing the linear interpolation and created a variable “val.” However, you never actually used it. Did you mean to change the array below it from [temp, temp] to [val, val] to call those modified values to be used? Just making sure I didn’t miss something.
@Mike
You’re correct, that should have been [val, val]. I guess it escaped me since it worked anyways.
good catch.
Cheers
thanks. I play with expressions a little myself. Speaking of that, I am attempting to write a script to effectively duplicate a selected or group of selected layers and link all possible keyable parameters to the original layer. I have worked through pieces of the script but cant put it all together. Any way you could help? I think it is pretty simple problem, but for the life of me, I cant figure out where.
anyway, thanks for the tutorial. I always enjoy learning new tricks.
Interesting !
Very nice tutorial, but still nothing about AE Script. :(
It’s very very long introduction to Scripting ;)