ExtendScript is the scripting language for Adobe apps. You still need the app to be running in order to use it. Some apps, (After Effects being one of them) can be run headlessly, and you can do some editorial operations.   Aside from that each app is different. Some like AE and Premiere can be exported to an XML structure, but that will require a lot of reverse engineering and trial and error to get stuff to work.   Smoothest path forward for automating Adobe projects is using ExtendScript through ScriptUI or a CEP panel for more complex workflows and UIs. Some more info on the differences between Scripts, Extensions, and Plugins here: https://hyperbrew.co/blog/scripts-extensions-plugins/ ... View more

That will disable the need for code-signing on your machine. If you're distributing your tool to other users, you'll want to set up signing successfully.   Yes you need to make a cert first and use that to sign your panel. More info in the CEP Cookbook:  https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources/blob/master/CEP_11.x/Documentation/CEP%2011.1%20HTML%20Extension%20Cookbook.md#signing-extensions ... View more

Just need to learn CSS to get all the styles to look the way you want:   https://www.w3schools.com/Css/   And like Arie mentioned Spectrum is the standard that most Adobe apps use, some more strictly than others. So you can use that as a reference to get you most of the way there. ... View more

What are you trying to do in the background? The iidea is you wait for the modal to be complete before doing other stuff. Due to ExtendScript limitations there usually isn't a way around this unless you have a CEP panel and your task can be offloaded to the JS side. ... View more

Did you accidentally add a few ms gap at the start? Drop both tracks in the timeline and select "Show Audio Time Units" to see if you trim one if they line up.   If not double check your settings in the sequence and files. ... View more

In AE, Premiere, and AME it's best to avoid polyfills (modifying prototypes) like this and instead use helper functions. More info on why here: https://hyperbrew.co/blog/top-2-extendscript-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them/ ... View more

I don't think there's an easy way to do this aside from the method your describing. It might be possible with a 3rd party tool like Selector however I haven't tried it myself. ... View more

You'd either need to setup a new sequence with the audio channel mapping that you desire as the final result (2 channels) and import your 4 mono audio tracks into there, or on export, select your preset, and adjust the audio export settings to do what you're trying to describe. The first method should be easier. ... View more

This has been highly requested recently, but still no API methos for setting OCIO settings via ExtendScript or C++, aside from enabling ACES mode with:   app.project.ocioConfigurationFile = 'ACES 1.2'   In the meantime you can try reverse engineering the prefs files if you'd like, but that will only work for new projects, not existing ones. ... View more

Yes this is all hacky, but not sure of a better way unless you want to fire off headless renders with aerender.   Answer to your question would be the same if you're using Bolt or not, evalTS() is just a type-safe wrapper for the native csInterface.evalScript().   If you need some async call to trigger CEP space from ExtendScript, you'll need to use something like PlugPlug.     Listen on CEP Side:       // if using Bolt CEP, import csi ( essentially new CSInterface() ) csi.addEventListener('myEventName', function (evt) { // Do stuff });       Call on ExtendScript Side:       try { var xLib = new ExternalObject("lib:\PlugPlugExternalObject"); } catch (e) { alert(e); } if (xLib) { var eventObj = new CSXSEvent(); eventObj.type = 'myEventName'; eventObj.data = 'myData'; eventObj.dispatch(); }       ... View more

What do you mean by return control to CEP? If you mean your function is completing before rendering is done then yes, this is expected.    If you want to call some function in CEP only after rendering has completed (from inside your renderFinishedMessage() function) then register a CSXS Event and call it from ExtendScript with PlugPlug. ... View more

A right, renderAsync() is a strange one. ... View more

Yes, also subject to change without notice. ... View more

You can look up encryption types, look for patterns, try various decoders, ask ChatGPT. ... View more

Using a scheduleTask or setTimeout is just going to wait the specified number of ms (in this case 200) before running, if your render takes longer then that won't work. You want to check if your render is done before running your action after. ... View more

Move that inside your renderFinishedMessage() function. ... View more

How are you retrieving this data and for what sort of mask property (Opacity / Effect / etc) ... View more

Yes, @ConstantinMaier answered it pretty well below, you would via system.callSystem() ... View more

Contact Adobe Support for these sorts of questions: https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html ... View more

Here's a post on getting started with Adobe Scripting: https://hyperbrew.co/blog/building-adobe-scripts/   And you'll find the best documentation on scripting in After Effects in Docs for Adobe: https://ae-scripting.docsforadobe.dev/ specifically Layer Objects and Properties Objects. ... View more

or apparently as @ConstantinMaier pointed out in his example, this also works, probably better than a command ID:   app.project.showWindow(false); app.project.showWindow(true); ... View more

Best of luck! ... View more

Project panel has to also be focused in addition to the right footage being selected for the command to work. One method is to close and re-open the projet panel by running the command id twice before you apply 2255:   app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId("Project")); app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId("Project")); (you'd need to adjust for whatever Python bindings you're using) ... View more

You'll want to break your entire panel into smaller pieces and test to see what's going wrong. If you are having an issue with a specific problem, try opening a new thread for that issue. ... View more

You can use aerender to render headlessley in the background which would avoid both of these issues. Just make sure you save your project first: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/automated-rendering-network-rendering.html ... View more

Believe the project panel needs to be focused and footage selected for it to work if I recall correctly. Revealing in source I think was one approach to ensure this worked. ... View more

If interested in the ProjectItem approach, here's some more info on that: https://ppro-scripting.docsforadobe.dev/item/projectitem.html#projectitem-setcolorlabel ... View more

You can change clip colors in a track via the API, but only by changing the clip's project item color and having the timeline setting "Show Source Clip Name and Label" enabled in Premiere, which doesn't work for everyone's use case since each project item can only have one color across the whole project.     Only other way is to change them manually, or set a hotkey to change a specific color and trigger that hotkey with AHK or something hacky like that. ... View more