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‎Oct 11, 2024
07:20 AM
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(Copying my workaround from the other thread) @Daniel_Peterson the workaround I found is to use JavaScript as the osascript language instead of the default AppleScript: osascript -l JavaScript -e 'ae = Application("Adobe After Effects 2024"); ae.activate(); ae.doscriptfile("myscript.jsx");'
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‎Oct 11, 2024
07:18 AM
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I tried reaching Adobe Support and they responded with "we don't have enough training; try the community forums" (one of the craziest responses I've seen from a customer care organization - actual response below) The support response verbatim: "This email is regarding your open case with us. We checked the script issue on our end. It seems like the older scripts that worked on Ventura is no longer available on Sonoma on the current version. The workaround would be to use the 23 version. Scripting is something that is we are not trained on so the best we can suggest you is to reach out to community forum regarding this and share this with our team there. " However, I did find a workaround that worked for me: Instead of using AppleScript, use JavaScript (still using osascript). So something like this works: `osascript -l JavaScript -e 'ae = Application("Adobe After Effects 2024"); ae.activate(); ae.doscriptfile("myscript.jsx");' (The capitalization of the language `-l` flag is important)
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‎Oct 03, 2024
10:01 AM
It seems that the Extendscript File object write() and writeln() do this as well. It's *very* surprising to silently convert characters. For example, this explicit use of write converts the newline to a carriage return: var f = new File("/tmp/test.log");
f.open("w");
f.write("test\n");
f.close(); Results: > hexdump /tmp/test.log
0000000 6574 7473 000d
0000005 Same results if I replace `write("test\n")` with `writeln("test")`! This is a surprising bug.
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‎Oct 02, 2024
12:05 PM
Is this true for any use of Applescript with After Effects? Before Sonoma I used Applescript with AE 2024 to DoScriptFile. It's no longer working. After Effects has no entry in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Automation. All osascript / Applescript usages with AE 2024 result in `34:103: execution error: Adobe After Effects 2024 got an error: AppleEvent timed out. (-1712)`
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‎Oct 02, 2024
11:59 AM
Seems that Applescript support is broken in macOS Sonoma with v24
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‎Dec 08, 2022
04:01 PM
Fast Start does not appear in Media Encoder that I can find. Here's an Adobe discussion from 2019 about fast start / MOOV atom placement: https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-media-encoder-discussions/mp4-faststart-moov-atom-placement/td-p/10311138 It looks like an Adobe Employee confirmed the placement with "Thanks for the clarification. Yes I can confirm that we always place MOOV atom at the beginning of the file (right after FTYP atom) when exporting to H.264 in MP4." If this is true (and remains true in the native exporting from After Effects in AE 2023) then I think that's sufficient enough for my needs.
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‎Dec 08, 2022
11:20 AM
Sorry. Typo. This is about After Effects 2023. I'd edit the post if I could.
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‎Dec 08, 2022
07:55 AM
I'm happy to see native MP4 encoding being reintroduced to After Effects after being unceremoniously ripped out 6–7 years ago.
However, there's a lot lacking in this "first" pass.
A major need for getting a usable file straight out of After Effects is having a "Fast Start" option that places the MOOV atom in the correct place (at the front of the file) for progressive download / pseudo-streaming.
Can we please get this option added in a patch and quickly?
(We have Enterprise Support which is incredibly dismissive and told me to fill out the "wish form" which just redirects to Community…)
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‎Dec 08, 2022
07:51 AM
It seems like a lot of options are missing for the reintroduced native MP4 rendering. A very important one is any kind of "Fast Start" option that puts the MOOV atom at the front of the file to assist with progressive download / pseudo-streaming. (We have Enterprise Support, which is basically garbage, and they told me to come make comments on the Community Forum.) Is there any chance we could see a fast-follow-up patch to expand the MP4 muxing options to include Fast Start?
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‎Mar 18, 2022
02:26 PM
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v23.2.1 Release I've pasted an item into a new document. It's too big. I press Cmd+T to transform. I grab the bottom left corner and drag up and to the left until I get close to the document bounds. It does not snap. I expect it to snap given that all snapping options are turned on in View > Snap To. Pressing shift brings the transform out of "maintain aspect ratio" and now it snaps to the document bounds (but it doesn't maintain aspect ratio anymore)… What am I doing wrong?
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‎Mar 17, 2020
03:00 PM
I uninstalled ESTK and rebooted and I'm still getting "(#15)Can't initialize target." I choose "Select the target application", choose After Effects, (if it's closed, I'm prompted to open it: yes/no), then I get the #15 error. Any other ideas?
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