Question
Do I Need the AE SDK For This?
Hi,
I hope this posting isn't in the wrong place. I've asked a similar question in the general forum, but have had no "bites" yet.
I'm wondering about custom animation effects (*.ffx files). When browsing through the project templates with AE7, I ran across the Expression Sampler.aet template. This project contains many compositions. These compositions contain effects that I cannot find anywhere in AE. For example, the "bounce" composition contains an effect called "Bounce". It looks to be a simple collection of controls to be used for animating parameters for an expression. By itself, it appears to do nothing. I believe it's main purpose is to supply values for an expression.
What I can't figure out is how to create such an effect (collection of controls). How would I reproduce something similar? Do I need to use the AE SDK? or is there some feature in the software that will suffice, that I just haven't found yet? I've been scourering the 'net and the Adobe site with no luck.
I know about the six Expression Controls effects, but those will only allow you to add one control per effect. You can't group a bunch of related controls together.
Again, I hope I haven't misplaced this question. Thanks,
Tim
I hope this posting isn't in the wrong place. I've asked a similar question in the general forum, but have had no "bites" yet.
I'm wondering about custom animation effects (*.ffx files). When browsing through the project templates with AE7, I ran across the Expression Sampler.aet template. This project contains many compositions. These compositions contain effects that I cannot find anywhere in AE. For example, the "bounce" composition contains an effect called "Bounce". It looks to be a simple collection of controls to be used for animating parameters for an expression. By itself, it appears to do nothing. I believe it's main purpose is to supply values for an expression.
What I can't figure out is how to create such an effect (collection of controls). How would I reproduce something similar? Do I need to use the AE SDK? or is there some feature in the software that will suffice, that I just haven't found yet? I've been scourering the 'net and the Adobe site with no luck.
I know about the six Expression Controls effects, but those will only allow you to add one control per effect. You can't group a bunch of related controls together.
Again, I hope I haven't misplaced this question. Thanks,
Tim
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