• Adobe After Effects

  Script commands and syntaxes?

  Posted by Daniel Martinez on October 15, 2007 at 5:36 pm

  Hi there,

  I know how to script in maya and I am somewhat an experienced programmer.

  Now what I need is a list and description of the different commands and syntaxes in after effects scripting.

  I need to process an external txt file, and cast data from it into aftereffects text layers, and also trim the layers based on the data from the file.

  To be exact I’m going to turn a spruce subtitle file (STL) into subtitles in after effects.

  The STL file is formated like this:
  TC, TC, Subtitle

  “00:00:03:24 , 00:00:06:29 , Did you read the paper today?”

  So again the question:
  Where to go for a syntax and command decription list?

  Thank you.

  Daniel Martinez replied 18 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  October 15, 2007 at 7:30 pm

  The AE Scripting guide pretty much has everything you should need:

  https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/pdfs/aftereffectscs3_scripting_guide.pdf

  Dan
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  Daniel Martinez

  October 15, 2007 at 8:35 pm

  Thank you – it is exactly what I was looking for!

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