Introduction To Writing Scripts Day 1 – Expressions

Introduction To Writing Scripts Day 1 – Expressions

on Aug 24th 2010 with 14 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: Just After Effects... Enjoy!
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Run Time: 20:22 min
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This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Introduction to Writing Scripts

Introduction to Writing Scripts

This series of tutorials will get you closer to the world of variables and case-by-case analysis. The introduction to Javascript will start with After Effects expressions and continue on to writing scripts that build an entire scene. Expressions and Scripts are used to automate values that would take a long time to keyframe or building scenes containing a lot of similar elements, with a few lines of code.

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  • timofej

    Thank you Frederik!

    Great tutorial! Even if I thought that I could the basics of the Expressions I learned some new things. Looking forward to see the next chapters.

  • http://www.georun.net georun974

    Thank you very much !!

  • Jonas

    Nice :)

  • Spencer T

    Great for the basics, but I would love to see some more advanced stuff. Also, if you are just doing the basics you should cover things like adding semi-colons to lines and other such scripting essentials.

  • seth

    i liked that tutorial, for a change i feel i learned something i can use in my projects. I’ll look forward for the next session.

  • valoos

    Nice tutorial, but everything is about expressions not scripts. AE scripting compare to expressions is completely different, huge tool with other, greater possibilities.

  • Pyetro

    Thanks a lot.
    Great tutorial to start scripting in after effects!

    I’m waiting for the next one!

  • Ironpotato

    Great tut I hope you have time to make some more expression driven tuts in the future. I am just getting into scripting in AE so thanks for shedding some light on the subject.

  • Rico

    Nice! Please make a second one! this one is very interesting

  • Ashish

    Hey thanx a lot…also keep in mind bout people like me who r null in scriptin…but damn m interested

  • Damjan

    Looking forward to see the next chapters

  • Daniel

    Great tutorial! Very clear!

    Caveat –

    The term is “Vah-ree-ya-bel” [variable] not “var-i-e-bel” :)

  • Spencer T

    He’s right, it’s kind of deceiving now that I think about it…

  • http://www.sinestesia.co Diego

    Anyone that wants to do _really_ cool stuff with AE needs to learn expressions at one point or another. Thanks a lot for this series!