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Creating Scripts with prompts
So, for some reason I cannot find any resources online so I am asking you,
is there a good resource/tutorial that explains how you can create scripts that you can save and run later that will apply a preset, but give you the opportunity to prompt the user for required information/parameters that is later used in the preset?
Kind of like a Wizard that steps the user through the process and may create compositions as required along the way?
I know it can be done, just have no idea where to start. Maybe there is a book?
Thanks for reading this and for forgiving my ignorance.
Cheers,
Chris
Orchard Film Studios, Canada
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Hi,
Help > Scripting Help…
links you to more or less everything you need to start scripting, but it’s a lot of things to read so here is some résumé:information about scripting for After Effects is all included in the After-Effects-CS6-Scripting-Guide.pdf, but it does not include UI stuff. UI related things are a topic on their own which is covered in the JavaScriptToolsGuide_CS5.pdf
Now these ressources are very detailed, most of the time you will find answers to your questions there, but they are also a bit dry (just a bit) and it is more useful to start with some concrete examples. It is less and less easy to find open code scripts but there are some. Dan Ebberts’ site:
https://www.motionscript.com/ae-scripting/table-of-contents.html
gives a few tutorials/examples to get started and see how it works. Then build upon that and the guides.
The adobe scripting forum is also helpful:
https://forums.adobe.com/community/aftereffects_general_discussion/ae_scripting?view=discussions&start=30&numResults=30#/I was about to forget!! On the Adobe forum you will find David Torno’s video tutorials which will lift you from absolute beginner to Senior Coder in 19 Episodes:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/5585539#5585539Xavier
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