Refer to 2dCam.pdf
Refer to 2dCam.pdf
- Install Adobe After Effects
- Install Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit for debugging. For me, the official
dmginstaller would not work, so I downloaded using from this link that I found on a forum post, and then the installer itself was broken so I had to right click > Show Package Contents, then openContents/MacOS/Installwith the the termianl.
The ExtendScript Toolkit app freezes constantly for me, so I developed using VSCode and ran it using the Run script file... menu item in After Effects. Then, whenever there was an error, I would jump into ExtendScript Toolkit to for it's error messages, logs, data browser etc.
I also went into Preferences... > Documents and turned on Automatic Reload of Changed Files so that the changes I make in VSCode show up automatically in ExtendScript Toolkit.
- After Effects Scripting Guide
- JavaScript Tools Guide
- Match names PDF
- Run the
log_selected_match_names.jsxscript to log every match name of the selected layers. - Run the
get_image_binary.jsxscript to get the binary of a PNG or JPG, for inlining in scripts.