If you’re talking about scripting, the only way to go about it is to add the effect to a layer, set the layer control to another layer, select “Effects & Masks” from the dropdown, then remove the referenced layer and now save the effect as a preset. Afterwards, you can apply the preset within your script and “Effects & Masks” will be selected…

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Hey, it’s quite a complicated thing, so I can’t give you my full code. It’s very long, interconnected with a bunch of other stuff, and also very specific to the use of this script. It would be too time-consuming to cover everything here but I hope you can figure out the rest yourself.

So let’s assume you’ve built your UI where people enter…

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There’s a workaround, however, I was only able to make it work properly on Windows. If you’re on Windows, here’s what you can do:

Not sure what you’re doing exactly but you can, for example, create some sort of UI where you let the user define shortcuts for a variety of scripts. Now save the different shortcuts, either to a file or to the AE…

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Well, when we’re talking about expressions, there is a way to declare a global variable in expressions and have them be accessible by other expressions. To do that you need to use the dollar sign to declare a variable, like this:

$.myVar = “Yolo”;

More about this here:

The global object in After Effects

However,…

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