I never really used Motion math. What did that script do exactly?

Alex

Hmm, isn't this a job for auto-orient towards camera?

<<reading a series of names from a text file, creating a comp for each name, a text layer in each comp with each name, and then rendering out the comp so you have 500 individual movies? >> Well, I suppose you could look into Photoshop scripting and/or actions. I think that with AE you could do this...

Ok, here is what I want to do. Don't laugh, it is a little silly. I make signature tags... sometimes in excess of 500 (same graphic, different names) I was told that I could make a script and use that to do the 500 names automatically attaching from a list of names I have, into the same gif graphic...

I'm working on a tracking project, and I'm getting quite frustrated with the inability to position your target layer anywhere in the comp. Attach points can't help me because I'm tracking a layer for Position and Scale, hence having two track points (and I positon these track points on the brightest...

Did you take a look at Paul Tuersley's script "split layer at markers" in the scripts library? I think it works with markers in several ways, so you could probably learn something from taking a look at it.
Maybe Paul can elaborate?

Alex

I've been wanting to modify my first script, posted in the scripts tutorial section (Add Expression/Slider to a comp) Basically this script will add a hard-coded expression and a slider control effect to all layers inside a selected composition. What I'd like to do is 1/apply the expression to selec...

I'm not sure scripting can do something like that. I have to check, but I believe the amount of UI elements that scripting can create are limited. So I guess a calculator would be pretty basic, if not down right ugly. Also I don't think you could invoke a palette from any place in the app. Right now...

This is a "work in progress tutorial". It follows the various steps I had to go through to create a simple script that fulfilled a simple but real-world need. The tutorial was revised 3rd Aug 04 by Paul Tuersley, who's helped clear a few things up a bit. The project I was working on was an...

I'm working on a script related to masks myself, as I need a script to add a specific mask to 40 or so layers in a comp.
I'm finding some useful information on Dan Ebberts site (Motionscript.com) about mask creation. Did you check it out?
Alex

This expression, to be applied to the rotation stream of a layer, will create a realistic oscillating look. It was created by Brian Maffit and Michael Natkin. It can be found on the bonus CD of the Total Training AE 6 DVD. from = -45; //one end of your oscillation to = 45; //the other end of your os...

I just tried to apply an expression to mask shape, but it doesen't seem to want to allow me to. If I alt-click on the stopwatch nothing happens...

I also tried to make another parameter follow Mask Shape, but won't work either.

Alex

Well, there isn't any real documentation out there that is focused specifically on scripting for AE (except for the scripting guide, that isn't really of great help except as a reference). The best thing you can do at this point (before anybody ventures to write something a bit more elaborate on the...

This is a combination of effects that will greatly enhance keying for DV orginated footage. The original recipe (invented by Mats Olsson) is a combination of Channel Combiner (to go from RGB to YUV space), Channel Blur (to blur the green and blue channels, which will reduce some of the noise in thos...

I'm interested in finding out what type of scripts people are looking for. For example, are you interested in scripts that allow you to automate import options? Scripts to allow you to manipulate files that are on your hard drive? Scripts that allow you to create specific types of objects in your ti...