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After effects project open in script editor?

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May 9, 2018
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Is it possible from After effects project somehow export it to javascipt file or open project in Script editor?

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I'm new to After Effects and tried to create this After Effects Tutorial: Hologram - YouTube as example and now trying to convert it to Script. As I understood it is possible:

1) convert to JSON and then upload JSON file to Script editor?

or

2) Buy 100$ worth of plugin which can export composition and layers to Script editor?

P.M.B

Legend

darrdze wrote
I'm new to After Effects and tried to create this After Effects Tutorial: Hologram - YouTube as example and now trying to convert it to Script. As I understood it is possible:
1) convert to JSON and then upload JSON file to Script editor?
or
2) Buy 100$ worth of plugin which can export composition and layers to Script editor?

You can try CompCode before you buy it to see if it's what you want. Also it will be on sale for -25% starting in June.

Myls suggestion of Immigration is a bit cheaper but not as "user friendly" (I luv that euphemism).

Full disclosure...My coding knowledge lay entirely with MEL. I've never done anything more complicated than a linear expression in AE, I've done only one Lynda.com introduction to JavaScript & I've never tried CompCode. SO I'm essentially talking out of my neck....but my neck is pretty clever.

~Gutterfish

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darrdzeAuthor

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JSON file can be also binary? So maybe it is possible to convert AE project to JSON file and then convert JSON file to Script editor?

PGZ@Mobibase

Inspiring

Not a coder here, but had to approach JSON format for a while, interesting that with Lottie, an animation like this :

https://www.lottiefiles.com/128-around-the-world

translates to JSON code like this :

https://www.lottiefiles.com/storage/datafiles/e8edab32a32a8a9402f9cd63b457993c/Plane.json

Which i guess could be manipulated in script editor ?

Or am i off topic ?

P.M.B

Legend

There's a plugin called CompCode that exports compositions & layers to code, but not entire AEPs. Costs $100 too

https://aescripts.com/compcode/

~Gutterfish

Mylenium

Legend

The AE file formats are not editable. They are binary. Even the now deprecated AEPX export only has partially editable sections such as e.g. text strings. You have to use tools like Immigration or write your own scripts and plug-ins for an editable meta project format.

https://aescripts.com/immigration/

Mylenium

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darrdzeAuthor

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JSON file is also binary? So maybe it is possible to convert AE project to JSON file and then convert JSON file to Script editor?

PGZ@Mobibase

Inspiring

maybe this could help ?

Lottie is a mobile library for Android and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json with Bodymovinand renders them natively on mobile!

GitHub - airbnb/lottie-android: Render After Effects animations natively on Android and iOS, Web, and React Native

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darrdzeAuthor

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Could be useful, but as understood not in my case, because Lottie is used only for android and iOS

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