Automation Blocks - Run Script...

Question

The tracking software I use (Syntheyes) exports out .jsx files and creates scenes inside AE. It's great! With Automation Blocks, I'd love to run the script and do a bunch of repetitive tasks after it's imported and clean up the scene.

Is there a way to launch a specific .jsx script from an animation block?

m1jackson · Accepted Answer

Do you get this when running the menu command from AB? Then I guess at the moment there is no workaround, unfortunately...

Drag, Ok. I do have a workaround for now. I'll very much be looking forward to the next version.

Mathias Moehl · Answer

Hi Mike,it is on my feature request list for future versions but not available, yet. The only thing you could do right now is to save a jsx in Ae's scripts folder, such that it shows up in the Ae menu File->Scripts (same as we do for keyboard shortcuts). Then you can use the block Execute Menu Command to execute that script.Workflow could be- always keep a script with name say "tempscript.jsx" in your scripts directory (it needs to be there already when you launch Ae such that it shows up in the Ae menu).- when you need to execute a script overwrite the file tempscript.jsx by that script and execute the menu command "tempscript.jsx".

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