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[20 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 221 views]
My AE Nudge Keyframes Script Featured in Motion Graphics Exchange Website

My popular AE Script – Nudge Keyframes to Nearest Frame, is featured here
Download the latest version of my script here: download script

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[27 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 83 views]

From the Adobe Support Website:
The Adobe CS3Clean Script will help resolve installation problems experienced by users of Adobe Creative Suite software. The script will clean up any beta and pre-release installations. It will also look for and repair registry permissions and remove obsolete registry entries of older Flash Player versions, to ensure successful installation of …

AE Scripting, Featured, PS Scripting, Resources, Scripting »

[15 Aug 2009 | 3 Comments | 265 views]
Anders CG Blog, AE Scripts Blog & Adobe Scripts Blog Merges with Sundstedt.se Website

I have now merged and moved all previous posts from my highly popular AE Scripts Blog, Adobe Scripting Blog and previous Sundstedt.se Website to my brand new website Sundstedt.se. This will make it easier to maintain and keep things more current. I have removed all content from the previous sites. I have redirected …

AE Scripting, Resources »

[9 Mar 2009 | No Comment | 137 views]

New script as found on After Effects Scripts website:
This is the CS4 update to the popular Throttle script. It works with the new multi-processing throttle system that was introduced with CS4 that manages how many CPU’s are to be left free for other applications. This version also adds a little known hidden preference that allows …

3D, Featured, MEL Script, Maya, Scripting »

[22 Feb 2009 | 3 Comments | 102 views]
speed_calc (MEL) – velocity (mph)

I have developed a new neat MEL script that calculates the speed in miles per hour for any animated object in a scene. The script is executed automatically for each frame; either stepping frame by frame or by playing back normally in the timeline. The script is ~ 90 lines of code; and also uses …

AE Scripting, Scripting »

[13 Aug 2008 | No Comment | 273 views]

I found a new useful script from Byron Nash, which I think you should try out:
This script reads a user specified text file and
creates a text layer for each line of text in a
new comp called “Text Comp”, or it uses the active comp.
- adds expression to control a random placement in 3d space
- adds …

AE Scripting, Scripting »

[13 Aug 2008 | No Comment | 115 views]

Tracker2Mask is a new script by Mathias Möhl. It computes the movement of maskshapes based on the movement of trackpoints. It is easy and flexible to use. In particular you don’t need one trackpoint for each maskpoint. In the tutorial he shows how to rotoscope the shape of a moving car based on only four …

AE Scripting, After Effects, Featured, Miscellaneous, PS Scripting, Photoshop »

[26 Jul 2008 | No Comment | 65 views]
ZOOtech: Published Games I Worked On

Some of the games that I worked on while working at ZOOtech Ltd as an Application Engineer – 3D Specialist (2004-2008):

Me at my workstation developing games and other interactive projects.
Clifford Phonics

8 activities and games. One of the games I’ve worked on. “Everyone in my family loves playing the Clifford Phonics game!” Angie Beyer (Mother of …

AE Scripting, Resources, Scripting »

[16 Nov 2007 | One Comment | 115 views]

This is written for CS3 but should work also in CS4:
To add scripts that can later be added as a panel in the user interface, create a folder in the After Effects CS3 ‘Scripts’ folder called ScriptUI Panels
Example:
\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels
Then, any .jsx, .js or .jsxbin scripts that you add in there can be launched from the …

PS Scripting, Scripting »

[13 Aug 2007 | No Comment | 60 views]

This script is a great help when you want to know all the fonts that are used in all the PSD files of a certain folder. Run the script and select an input directory. A textfile will be created in the same directory listing all the font names. This is great when you are missing …

PS Scripting, Scripting »

[13 Aug 2007 | No Comment | 50 views]

Here is a function I wrote to refresh Photoshop, Enjoy!
function refresh() {
cTID = function(s) { return app.charIDToTypeID(s); };
var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
desc.putEnumerated(cTID(“Stte”), cTID(“Stte”), cTID(“RdCm”));
executeAction(cTID(“Wait”), desc, DialogModes.NO);
};

PS Scripting, Scripting »

[13 Aug 2007 | No Comment | 52 views]

1. Record an action that calls the script you want to execute.
2. Create a droplet from the action created in step 1.
3. Call the droplet from the command line with an image file as the sole parameter. The path to the image file probably needs to be an absolute one.
Thanks to xbytor for teaching me …

PS Scripting, Scripting »

[13 Aug 2007 | No Comment | 68 views]

This cool little script is very useful. When you would want to import all images in a folder and make one new layer in the PSD file for each image, use this great script! Works great, I have personally tested this script in CS3 and it works as suggested:
ImportFolderAsLayers_1-3-1.js

Script Author: Trevor Morris (tmorris@fundy.net) – with …

PS Scripting, Resources, Scripting »

[13 Aug 2007 | No Comment | 75 views]

I have formatted this list of Error Codes in Photoshop and converted it into a PDF, so it’s easy to print and keep on your desk/file of Photoshop Scripting resources. Thanks to xbytor over at ps-scripts for posting the list and figuring out a way to map error numbers to error strings!
ErrorCodesPS

PS Scripting, Scripting »

[13 Aug 2007 | No Comment | 70 views]

Mike Hale over at ps-scripts.com have recently posted a neat function called getFillColor, that gets the color of an solid color adjustment layer (shape layer). It expects activeLayer to be an adjustment Layer. The topic where you can find the function is available on this page
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// Function: getFillColor
// Description: Gets the …