Adobe after effects scripting

[Brendon Murphy]

Are you sure you need scripting? Or can you set up a template file and duplicate it for each lecture?

[ayat fatima]

yes I can do this.. But I’m beginner in animations, so, I’m facing problem in preparing a template even. I need help, it is related to my final year project. I really need to perform something for my presentation in proposal defence.

kindly do help me.

Thank You!

[Brendon Murphy]

Can you provide a bit more detail about what you need to accomplish?

[ayat fatima]

Actually I’ve to prepare a complete animated course of a subject. As it is final year project of BSCS program that is why I’ve to use scripting for animation. Without code it wouldn’t be considered as fyp. I’m finding difficulty in scripting. I’ve downloaded ExtendScript Toolkit CS5 and adobe after effects 2020 as well as CS6. when I’m writing scripts for adobe after effects CS6 in toolkit it is giving errors.

[ayat fatima]

Sir Brendon Murphy

Please do help me in adobe after effects scripting….

[Brendon Murphy]

Since there’s no specific code question here, I can offer a few ideas. My biggest suggestion is to keep it simple… set up a few lines of code that can be repeated for each section of the presentation.

For instance:

Put all your presentation text in a document on your computer (something like a txt or csv). Headlines can be on one line, with bullet points on subsequent lines.

Write a script that reads this text into AE based on the index of the line. Script some basic formatting rules to make your headline bigger, bold, and a different color. Set the duration of your comp to something reasonable.

Have your script precompose the text elements for that section, and then repeat for all other sections of your presentation.

Finish by putting all precomps sequentially into a master comp. Keyframe opacity on the precomps to fade in and out.

[ayat fatima]

thank You so much.

how can I write letter by letter text in after effects cs6

[Stephen Dixon]

ESTK is deprecated, Adobe recommends you use VSCode and the Extendscript Debugger add-on.

[ayat fatima]

I’m finding the error of “undefined object” or “the null is not an object” in the following code:

app.newProject();
var myComp=app.project.item[1];
var firstLayer = app.project.item[1].layers[1-2];

[Brendon Murphy]

Assuming you have already created a comp (or something else) within your project, the first item is index 0. The second item is index 1. Layer indices start at 1. So assuming that the comp also contains a layer, you can do this this to get the name of the first layer:

var myComp = app.project.item[0];
var firstLayer = activeComp.layer(1);
var firstLayerName = firstLayer.name;
alert(firstLayerName);