Saving expressions as presets

[Xavier Gomez]

Hello,
i don’t think there is anything designed for this within AE but there are some scripts that allow to save and sort expressions. I won’t give you a name because i think there are several (not sure) and i don’t know all of them. Have a look at aescripts.com., category After Effects / Expressions.

Xavier

[Scott Green]

Thanks for that, I’ll take a look now.

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[Scott Green]

No luck, I typed ‘Save Expressions’ in the search but didn’t find anything useful. I guess I’ll keep searching, sure there’ll be something buried somewhere in there.

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[Mitch Mann]

Sure you can. Check out the thread a few threads back called “Both in and out” in which an expression is saved as part of a preset.

[Scott Green]

Works for me, thanks very much 🙂

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[Scott Green]

That’ll sure save me some time opening my text doc and scrolling through all the expressions I’ve got saved in there.

Do you think anyone has saved any presets anywhere with all of their expressions that they’ve got for other people to use? That might be worth searching for.

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[Todd Kopriva]

As others have already indicated, you can save and apply expressions as part of animation presets.

In fact, all of the animation presets in After Effects in the Behaviors category are essentially just expressions.

There’s more about saving animation presets here.

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