Any Tuts On Writting Plug-Ins In AE????

[Alon_a]

Are you sure you want to actually write a plug-in? There is some SDK documentation on the Adobe website, but for what you describe this hardly seems necessary. Apply the effects to one layer and save them as a .ffx preset which you can then apply to the other layers, or use an adjustment layer, or if all else fails write a script – this is still much easier than an actual plug-in. Scripting is covered in the AE docs, and also over at Dan Ebberts’ site, particulary this section:

https://www.motionscript.com/ae-scripting/table-of-contents.html

– AA

[Carl Sollenberger]

Thank you.
Yea – I thought it might be fun to try and write a plug or two…

[Barend Onneweer]

I think all AE plugins are written in some flavour of C.

What you want is called “macro’s” in Shake, and “capsules” in Combustion. You build a concoction of existing plugins, build a custom UI around it (similar to expression controls), and wrap it into a single item.

But AE doesn’t do this. Sending in feature requests may help though 🙂

Bar3nd

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