I am fully aware that Adobe does not "officially" support Media Encoder scripting through ExtendScript in the way they do for most of the other applications.  But it is possible: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2170163/is-adobe-media-encoder-scriptable-with-extendscript However, it only seems that the script can be run by opening up the ExtendScript Toolkit and manually clicking the green arrow which causes the script to run. Naturally, this is far from ideal.  For other Adobe applications, such as After Effects, the script can be run from command line in the following fashion:     "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2018\Support Files\afterfx.exe" -r  "script/path/here.jsx" (See here for a reference: Run .jsx File From Command Line Windows ) However, when trying the same thing for Adobe Media Encoder (replacing it with the appropriate path), no such luck.  Although the Media Encoder window becomes active, the script does not run. Another thought was to put `#target ame` at the beginning of the script and then try running it with ExtendScript directly.  When doing so, you get this window: Unfortunately, clicking "Yes" does absolutely nothing. The goal here is to be able to run my .jsx script for Media Encoder in some kind of automated fashion, without having to open ExtendScript and manually click on the green arrow each time.  Surely there's some way to do this, but apart from the methods I've tried above which don't work, I cannot think of anything.  What exactly is clicking that little green arrow doing, and is there any way to emulate that click from command line?  I'm willing to try anything to enable me to run this script completely automated. Any ideas?!? For reference, I am using Adobe Media Encoder CC 2017 and Windows 10 build 14393. ... View more

In extendscript, how can I check if a layer has a specific effect applied to it?  For example, suppose I want to check if a given layer has the "motion tile" effect applied to it.  Essentially, this is the pseudocode of what I want: var layer_number = 1; if (app.project.item(1).layer(layer_number) has motion tile applied) {   alert("It does!"); } else {   add motion tile effect to app.project.item(1).layer(layer_number); } Can somebody please help me translate this pseudocode into real code that extendscript will recognize for After Effects?  Thanks. ... View more

I'm running After Effects CC 2014.2.0 on Windows 10. By default, some of the following items in the timeline panel are not displayed by default.  For example, see the "mode" and "key" columns I've pointed out in red in this image: I also don't have the columns in the same order as typical (I moved over the column containing the "solo layer" button, for example, to the right of the layer name instead of the left, which is the default). On another machine, I copied the entire %AppData%\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects\13.2 folder over to a brand new install of this particular version of After Effects.  Believe it or not, all those changes that I had made to the timeline panel columns appeared! So this tells me that, somewhere in this folder, in one of these files, this information is stored.  However, does anybody know exactly WHICH file?  I see this entire list, but I want to know which one in particular contains this information: If you know the answer, please share, and also please share where you found this information; I don't see any documentation on this, and I'm really interested in knowing. ... View more

I'm writing an HTML panel for Photoshop for personal use, and when a button is clicked, the following function in a .jsx file is called, and then EvalScript updates a text field with the path of the current open document. function getcurrentfilepath() {   return app.activeDocument.path.fsName; } But I run into problems whenever the button is clicked and there is no document open, or the document that is open hasn't been saved yet.  So in these instances, the text "EvalScript error." ends up in my text box.  See the image below: I would like to be able to control what text is returned whenever the error occurs.  So that means that I need to add code into my .jsx file so account for situations in which the app.activeDocument.path.fsName property is not valid.  So essentially, I need to do error handling.  But I'm not sure how to check if that property is valid.  So how can I change my function to return a different string whenever the app.activeDocument.path.fsName is not valid? ... View more

Observe the following lines of code: #target Photoshop var joy = app.activeDocument.path; alert(joy); Test this when you have some file open in Photoshop.  For example, it outputs something that looks like this: /d/5)%20Projects/My%20Projects but I need it to look like this: D:\5) Projects\My Project Now, let me make this clear; I need it in EXACTLY the format that I showed immediately above.  I'm working on a Windows machine, and I need to return this filepath in the Windows format for my HTML panel so that the user has easy access to it.  I need it to be just a standard string that includes the spaces and doesn't add in those extra percent signs and twenties.  Unfortunately, I have no idea how to do this. So the real question here is; how can I obtain the active document's file path in the typical Windows format? ... View more