Thanks for putting this training together David. It's a great resource and a true benefit to the community.
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Joe Stern <joes31@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, David, for all of the work that you have put into this series. I appreciate all of the people mentioned in your post that have blazed the path for us. You have taken a topic that many consider "over our heads" and broken it down into bite-sized chunks. The lessons are easy to follow and make for a great overview of the subject. Bravo to you and your mentors. Adobe should make it part of their online training (Todd?).
With this weeks post of episode 19, I have now reached the end of the series. I wanted to consolidate all the links into a proper organized post, so that is why I am making this post. It has been a long journey to get to this point, and I am so very grateful to know and have met some of you in this forum. There have been many people in my life that have made it possible for me to learn a lot about After Effects over the years. Jeff Almasol being the key that helped spark that scripting interest so many years ago in 2007 when he saved my butt on a nightmare project. With my cry for help, and this script (http://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_NewProjectFromComp) showing up an hour later. It made me think about a ton of new possibilities. I still didn't know coding though which made the process VERY difficult. Step in Dan Ebberts and Harry Frank. They provided me the tools necessary to learn expressions, which broke open the doors and made my understanding of coding possible.
Paul Tuersley, and Lloyd Alvarez also quickly became my goto for scripting help and made my final transition into After Effects scripting possible. All of these men are gods in my eye and deserve such respect.
I made this series with the goal of providing a helpful tool to fill in some of the gaps of information that exists online on working with ExtendScript for After Effects. I also wanted to give back to the same community that so graciously gave to me over the years. That is why this series is free to the public, and why it is packed full of content. Sixteen hours, fifteen minutes and forty seconds worth of content to be exact. Yes, I made a script to add up the clip times.
Here is the complete list of the entire After Effects ExtendScript Training series. All nineteen episodes with over sixteen hours of video content. Enjoy.
Episode 4: (After Effects Object Model structure overview / Script Preparation and development tips / Single Item Access of various project items, comps and layers)
Episode 10: (Build a custom function to collect all CompItem objects / Modify function to dynamically allow for choice of CompItem, FolderItem or FootageItem)
Episode 19 P1 & 2: (Create custom functions to Retrieve layer types, retrieve all fonts used in project, retrieve a text layer's justification, retrieve a layer's blending mode)
