After Effects Scripts

Speaking at AENY

lloyd — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:53:49 +0000

UPDATE! In case you were not able to make it you can watch the presentation courtesy of AENY (make sure to watch it full screen) If you are in New York City on January 29th I will be speaking at the AENY meeting about using scripts in After Effects to improve your workflow. Stop by and say [...]

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After Effects CS4 Studio Techniques Book

lloyd — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:52:20 +0000

I am proud to announce that Zorro and BG Renderer are featured in Mark Christiansen’s just released and totally excellent Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques book. This is one of the best books available for After Effects and a must have for intermediate...

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Throttle 1.2

lloyd — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:00:08 +0000

This is the CS4 update to the popular Throttle script. It works with the new multi-processing throttle system that was introduced with CS4 that manages how many CPU’s are to be left free for other applications. This version also adds a little known hidden preference that allows you to...

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BG Renderer

lloyd — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:01:56 +0000

BG Renderer is a script that allows you to render your Render Queue items in the background while you can continue working in After Effects. It runs as an embedable panel that is saved as part of your workspace. This version is compatible with After Effects CS4 and CS3, you can get the AE7...

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Zorro-Very Important Update!

lloyd — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:41:00 +0000

I found a very significant cross platform issue with Zorro. When a project is created and tagged with Zorro on one platform, say Mac, and then that same project is opened on Windows, the bullets that are used to identify tags don’t get properly translated. This is an unfortunate side effect...

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Zorro-The Layer Tagger

lloyd — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:52:06 +0000

Zorro makes selection and isolation sets easy and possible in after effects by adding tags to layers. Similar to the way you would tag photos in Flickr, you can tag layers in your comps and then select or isolate those layers in groups by using the tags. Please watch the video tutorial to...

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Load Project or Template at Startup

lloyd — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:12:29 +0000

Based on a request over at the creative cow, this script will launch a project or template every time your start After Effects. For example, if you have a certain folder/file structure you like to keep for your AE projects, you can setup a virgin project the way you like it and save it as [...]

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Render Frame at Markers

lloyd — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:53:26 +0000

Based on a request on the AE-List, this script will render (actually send to the render queue) any frames that are marked by layer markers that are within the comp work area. This would be equivalent to going to a point in time in your comp and selecting “Save Frame...

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Video Preview Throttle

lloyd — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:39:59 +0000

We are expanding the Throttle family based on a user request to have quick access to the video preview preferences. You will need to select an Output Device and Output Mode first in Preferences->Video Preview. Once you’ve done that you will be able to control the rest of the settings...

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Random Layer Selector

lloyd — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:26:16 +0000

Randomly selects layers. There’s 4 options for how many layers are selected randomly: You can randomly select most of the layers, many of the layers, not many and finally you can have it randomly select very few of the layers. The most, many, not many and very few selection works by first...

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