[Lloyd Alvarez]

Hey Frank,

I went ahead and put it together for you. I agree that scripting can be very daunting.. you can take a look at the code if you want to try to figure it out.

https://aescripts.com/2008/02/07/render-email-incremental-save-and-shutdown/

-Lloyd

[Lloyd Alvarez]

>>So I do consider this a bug.

Hey Filip (and everyone else),

I hope you file bugs with Adobe when you find them. This is the only way to make sure they are aware of them and queue them to be fixed. You can file bugs (and feature requests) here:

<https://www.adobe.com/go/wish>

-Lloyd

[Lloyd Alvarez]

AE ships with a render and email script as well as a save and increment script.. Joining them should be fairly trivial and adding a system command to shut the machine down should also be fairly simple.. You should give it a try.. that’s how i got into scripting!

-Lloyd

[Lloyd Alvarez]

I think he wants the value to countdown by 1’s from 10 to 0 not jump from 10 to 1.

This will go in increments of 10 until it reaches 10 then will go in increments of 1 from 10 to 0.

if (value > 10) {r=10} else {r=1}
Math.round(value/r)*r

[Lloyd Alvarez]

Did not see your comments as negative, I was just responding to some or your points. The speed is simply due to the fact that AE has been optimized quite a bit in recent years especially CS3 running on a Macintel box. So all that speed is credit to the Adobe crew not me. I am just working on 1 layer and I isolate it before i do the work, so comps with tons of layers won’t affect what I am doing. But it defintely looks like you are doing more speed optimization than I am. I wasn’t so concerned with speed this time around since i felt the wait was reasonable and didn’t want to risk missing cuts at the expense of some time gained.. but optimizing for speed sounds like a fun challenge for the next revision.

As for the booze proposal, you can contact me off list. My email is my name @ aescripts

-Lloyd

[Lloyd Alvarez]

Hey Bouke,

In my testing my script processed the footage very quickly, I don’t have precise benchmarks but it’s definitely faster than realtime. As for color correcting in After Effects vs somewhere else, I think that’s up to each person, but AE has very powerful CC tools and also masking and tracking etc for very precise secondary corrections. It also works in 32 bit now so you can stack corrections without any fear of clipping.

All I aimed to do with my script (as I do with all my scripts) is to provide a tool that would help you save some time, so if you need to split some footage into scenes whether it be for color grading or adding effects or whatever now you don’t have to do it by hand.

-Lloyd

[Lloyd Alvarez]

You can assign keyboard shortcuts to the first 20 scripts in your script menu by editing the Shortcuts Prefs file which is in the Preferences directory. Once you open it, search for “ExecuteScript” and you’ll see the entries where you can assign any keyboard shortcut you want.

-Lloyd

[Lloyd Alvarez]

No expression needed, you can do this by simply selecting all your layers and choosing LAYER->TRANSFORM-FIT TO COMP (or Fit to Comp Height or Width if you wish to keep them proportional)

-Lloyd

[Lloyd Alvarez]

Sounds like a job for sampleImage which is unfortunately only available in CS3

-Lloyd

[Lloyd Alvarez]

Aha! Didn’t realize you could go into the negative… now that makes sense and yes, now i can do what i want.

Thanks as usual!