How to merge multi expression controls by scripting

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April 20, 2022
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I want to merge multi expression controls to one effect.

Please tell me how to make original control effect like the attached image.

I thought the addProperty() method help me but could not reach the correct answer.

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Paul Tuersley

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There's this: https://aescripts.com/pseudo-effect-maker/

But I guess you already know that as you grabbed your image from there. And then a google search for 'pseudo effect after effects' gives me a bunch of results including this tutorial:

https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/creating-pseudo-effects-in-after-effects/

Where you can see that these pseudo effects are created by adding to AE's PresetEfects.xml file. I presume that is what the above script is doing and you'll need to code something similarly complex to achieve this. There's no magic 'make pseudo effect' scripting command.

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in_the_skyAuthor

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Thank you! You've opened the way for me.

But after proceeding for a while, I faced a new problem again...

I went ahead with this video and the binary is magical. I could not customize the effect I want.

https://youtu.be/FOazhcjKFYU

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Paul Tuersley

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If your aim is to distribute a pseudo effect designed by yourself from inside a script then yes, after creating and applying it manually in After Effects, saving it as a .ffx animation preset then embedding that in your script would be a good way to do this. Then your script would just need to write that .ffx file to the user's computer and use applyPreset to apply it. I don't see any reason that wouldn't work.

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