Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #50435
From: David Torno <torno@sydefxink.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] After Effects ExtendScript Training (complete series)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:00:45 +0000
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Thanks everyone, you're very welcome. Glad to hear you are finding it useful. :)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Griffin [mailto:dagrial@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 11:08 AM
To: 'After Effects Mail List'
Subject: Re: [AE] After Effects ExtendScript Training (complete series)

Thank you very much!

Daniel Griffin
www.kubikafilms.com


2013/8/12 Marco Domingues <marcodomingues@gmail.com>

> Thanks you so much!
>
>
> On 12 August 2013 16:08, Byron Nash <byronnash@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?).
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Joe Stern
>>> CNN Post Production
>>> Atlanta
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 11, 2013, at 1:58 PM, David Torno <torno@sydefxink.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> http://www.motionscript.com/
>>> http://www.toolfarm.com/product/after_effects_expressions_series_1_bundle
>>> 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 1: (Intro)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-1-2-3
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 2: (Javascript Basics p1)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-1-2-3/P2
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 3: (Javascript Basics p2)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-1-2-3/P3
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 4: (After Effects Object Model structure overview / Script
>>> Preparation and development tips / Single Item Access of various project
>>> items, comps and layers)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-4
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 5: (Access Renderqueue items, output modules and file paths /
>>> Multiple item access of project items, comps and layers / Batch change all
>>> renderqueue items file paths)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-5
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 6: (Collecting data into an Array() / Changing values / Various
>>> tips)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-6
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 7: (Create new comps and folders / Create Null, Solid, and Text
>>> layers)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-7
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 8: (Create multiple comps of various sizes / Use Undo group /
>>> Add solids to match each comp / Various tips)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-8
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 9: (Globally change blue solids to red / Replace solid name blue
>>> with red)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-9
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 10: (Build a custom function to collect all CompItem objects /
>>> Modify function to dynamically allow for choice of CompItem, FolderItem or
>>> FootageItem)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-10
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 11: (Build a floating GUI with groups, buttons, checkboxes,
>>> radio buttons, dropdown lists, progress bars, icon buttons, images, static
>>> text, edit text boxes, sliders, scroll bars, panels with names, tabbed
>>> panels with multiple tabs, listbox lists, listbox lists with multiple
>>> columns, or tree view lists)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-11
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 12 P1 & 2: (Build a dockable & floating combo GUI with groups,
>>> buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdown lists, progress bars, icon
>>> buttons, images, static text, edit text boxes, sliders, scroll bars, panels
>>> with names, tabbed panels with multiple tabs, listbox lists, listbox lists
>>> with multiple columns, or tree view lists)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-12
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 13: (ExtendScript Developer Utility script release / Retrieve a
>>> list of all project item footage file paths)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-13
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 14: (Processing text strings)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-14
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 15 P1 & 2: (Keyframes)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-15
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 16 P1 & 2: (Create text layers from text document)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-16
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 17 P1, 2 & 3: (Export property info to text document)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-17
>>>
>>>
>>> Episode 18 P1, 2 & 3: (Dockable list of all effects used in project and
>>> export to text document)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-18
>>>
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>
>>> http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/video/after-effects-extendscript-training-ep-19
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------
>>> David Torno
>>> Visual Effects Artist and Supervisor
>>> http://www.ghosttownmedia.com
>>> E: david@ghosttownmedia.com
>>> O: 213.739.2290
>>> C: 818.391.6060
>>> ------------------------------------------------
>>> http://www.sydefxink.com  (main portfolio)
>>> http://aeioweyou.blogspot.com (vfx tutorials and AE scripts blog)
>>> http://mactex.blogspot.com  (free textures blog)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>



 
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