The error I get when I get rid of the PC part of the script is : "After Effects error : Can't import file "shutoff.sh":unsupported filetype or extension. (0-1)" If I look at the desktop (place where the file was rendered), the .sh file was created. However if I double click on it...

Pierre, about your second problem, do you mean adding keyframes for a specific property?
If so, check out my tutorial called "Add Slider/Expression to a comp"
http://aczet.free.fr/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=59

If that is not what you mean, could you clarify?

Alex

I'm not sure I understand you correctly. Couldn't you just select the folder and import? It will import into that folder already.
Why do you need scripting?

Alex

Byron Check this page out : http://www.apple.com/applescript/quicktime/ You might find some useful info in one of the scripts you can download there. Then to run the applescript I guess you could find inspiration in Impudent's script to render and shutdown, more specifically the following lines : //...

Unfortunately in the current state it doesen't work on a mac. The error message says : "There is no defautl application specified to open the document "shutoff.bat" So it seems that the part of your script that doesen't work is the creation of the sh file. I saw the bat file being cre...

Wouldn't this be inverse kinematics? I'm sure there are loads of recipes to do this around the web. I know there is one in the Total Training DVD for After Effects, set 3 ( the one that covers Expressions).
I'm sure Dan Ebberts has something down his sleeve too.
Check Motionscript.com maybe?

That is exactly what I've been thinking of developping. How have you been going around doing this? Using the Socket object?
If so, can the socket object upload the rendered file/thumbnail and .txt file that will populate the mySql db?
Do you do that with php?

On the mac, the prefs file is stored with your user preferences. It is a text file that can be 'easily' edited.

Impudent has a script here called "SamplerSizeRadio" that writes to the prefs file. You might want to check it out.

HTH

Alex

This tutorial will help you with a very simple task, but that, in my experience, can occur quite often. When you have a layer with many keyframes applied to it, may it be by you, by the tracker, by the wiggler, by expressions converted to keyframes, by motion sketching, or any other technique, you m...

The "beach ball" from hell problem is due to a combination of three things in AE : 1/Projects with a lot of nested comps and the pref "Synchronize all related items" activated 2/The undo history 3/Project complexity You can try to turn off synchronize time and/or reduce the numbe...

Yeah, I'm afraid it might get a bit too complex. We didn't create the web database here. I think they use php but I'm not up on web tech at all. The best way I thought it might work is if my script could create the same file or entry that the form does and just bypass that form altogether. That's p...

That's something pretty powerful and interesting your trying to do Byron. I think that part of it falls out of the scope of AE Scripting though, but i might be wrong. For example, I don't see how you could fill in a form in AE that would connect to a remote database and populate the appropriate reco...

We have a client site where we can upload quicktimes and other files for the client to log into and view. Can javascript interface with web pages and follow links and enter data into forms? I want to write a script that takes the current comp and renders a small quicktime and associated thumbnail i...

With master Dan Ebbert's compliments..... numx = 10; numy = 10; numz = 10; space = 75; center = [thisComp.width/2,thisComp.height/2,0]; xIdx = (index - 1)%numx; yIdx = Math.floor((index - 1)/numx)%numy; zIdx = Math.floor((index - 1)/(numx*numy)); x = space*(xIdx - (numx - 1)/2); y = space*(yIdx - (n...

Here is an alternative syntax (probably a bit longer than Paul's) The following script will set a new marker "Fade Up" at time 0: // assume app.project.item(1) is CompItem, and has 1 layer. var myMarker = new Marker("Fade Up"); app.project.item(1).layer(1).property("marker&q...