After Effects Feature Request – Auto restart

[John Cuevas]

You have the “Cntl + Alt + Shift + P” which will open your most recent project. There is also a script that will do it too, Load Project or Template at Startup

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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[Gary Huff]

[John Cuevas] “You have the “Cntl + Alt + Shift + P” which will open your most recent project.”

Still manually closing the app, relaunching, and pressing a keyboard combination when I could simply click a menu option and have it do that on its own.

[John Cuevas]

Then check out the script, should do exactly what you need.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[Gary Huff]

[John Cuevas] “Then check out the script, should do exactly what you need.”

John, I don’t think you understand the issue. These projects are, first, constantly changing. Thus having a script I have to manually set just adds to the time involved, doesn’t subtract from it.

Second, I still have to close the app and re-launch it myself. And I don’t always have it in the dock (I trend to constantly change what is in the dock because there’s nothing more annoying then accidentally opening apps while trying to launch others), so if I have forgotten to add AE back to the dock, it’s not as simple to open up.

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

You’re the only person I know that installs plugins only as and when they need to use it. I suppose that you then uninstall these plugins as soon as you are done with the project? This doesn’t sound like an efficient way to use plugins.

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[Ridley Walker]

[Gary Huff] “I trend to constantly change what is in the dock because there’s nothing more annoying then accidentally opening apps while trying to launch others)”

I know we each have individual workflows and develop work habits, so take this with a grain of salt – but moving things in and out of the dock seems like more trouble than its worth.

I have a minimal dock, just Finder, QT 7, Downloads, Documents folder and Trash. I rarely click to open apps, having been a QuickSilver user for years and lately I’ve transitioned to using Spotlight to launch apps by typing the first few characters of the app’s name.

For info on the excellent and free QuickSilver see: https://qsapp.com

I find it faster and easier than the Dock, YMMV – indeed I expect it would.

[Chris Wright]

you could script something in autohotkey or vb. a single button like windows+q would close ae, open previous project, uninstall plugins silently, and do all sorts of funky stuff automatically.

[Walter Soyka]

If you’re going to make a request to support this workflow, why not request the ability to refresh plugins without quitting and reopening the app?

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[Gary Huff]

[Walter Soyka] “If you’re going to make a request to support this workflow, why not request the ability to refresh plugins without quitting and reopening the app?”

That would be fine too. I am assuming that there might be a larger issue at stake by doing so.

Even FCPX has to be shut down and relaunched to show plugins. Not aware of any other NLE that doesn’t do the same.

[Gary Huff]

[Roland R. Kahlenberg] “You’re the only person I know that installs plugins only as and when they need to use it. I suppose that you then uninstall these plugins as soon as you are done with the project?”

I guess I am just trying to find the right effect and so I do some Google searches and look for effects that might possibly either save me time or allow me to generate an effect that I can’t do myself.

And, on top of that, the majority of the time the plugin description vs. its actual abilities are overblown.

You never uninstall software trials that you decide aren’t worth paying for?