• Adobe After Effects

  Automate keystrokes

  Posted by Frank Muldoon on March 14, 2015 at 6:20 pm

  I am doing a boring repetitive task in After Effects that involves a set of keystrokes that I have to do like a million times, no exaggeration, a million. OK maybe less than a million but still it is a pain in my wrist.

  The sequence is something like this: Option right bracket, Page Down, Command Up Arrow, Left Bracket.

  Is there any way to automate this series of keystrokes or make a Macro?

  Thanks in advance to all the wonderful, intelligent, helpful folks at Creative Cow Forums!!

  Frank

  Frank Muldoon replied 11 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Brian Charles

  March 14, 2015 at 7:15 pm

  Since you’re using a Mac you can use Automator, here’s a link to a tutorial, the example uses FCP but could use After Effects.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsjRSHmJZLM

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  Frank Muldoon

  March 15, 2015 at 1:22 am

  Thanks for that but I am clueless about Automator. The tutorial seems to be showing the Automator in action but not how to program it. Will this work with commands and not just TEXT fill ins?

  Frank

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