Hey Mike, You can do exactly what you describe by doing what I was saying. Just declare the object in the main body of the script and it will be a global variable to your script. No need to pass it explicitly to your functions. Of course it will be a global variable across all scriptUI scripts like ...

Hey Mike

What I do on advice from Jeff Almasol when I asked the same question was to create an object to store global variables and make the object name unique to each script. Lloyd

Colors are stored in RGB so if you want to adjust the saturation you need to convert the color to HSL first, adjust the saturation then convert it back to RGB. There's built in functions to do both of this convertions.

Lloyd

Hey Philip app.executeCommand is an unsupported function, or a "private api" as Apple calls them so it's best to avoid using it as there is no guarantee that it will work. I use it only when there is not other option. In the case of New Comp from selection, it is very easy to do that throu...

Hi Adam,

You can use my Batch Search and Replace Paths script to see how AE sees a path. Import the file you would like to know the path of into AE and run the script in Test mode with the XML option off. This will generate a text log file which will show you the path the way AE sees it.

Lloyd

Expressions are evaluated on a per-frame basis so there is no easy way for it to know the result of the previous frame. You would need to keep the black frame count in the script which requires a bit more involved code. If you want me to do this for you please contact me directly. You can get my ema...

It's a much simple expression just to detect a black frame: myExpEffect.property("Slider").expression = "p=[width/2,height/2];\n " + "s=sampleImage(p, radius = [width,height], postEffect = true, t = time); \n"+ "c=0; "+ "if ((s[0]+s[1]+s[2]) == 0) { c= 1}...

Hey Adam, Very easy to adapt Magnum to do that. Magnum uses sampleImage() to get an average color for the frame and then compares to the following frame and if it is beyond the threshold different then it creates a cut so you can change that code to look and store 3 frames and compare. The black fra...

This script will do it for you: http://aescripts.com/skydome

Not sure I follow your question 100% but you can trim your camera layers to change which camera is the active camera in the comp.

-Lloyd

On page 16 of the CS3 scripting guide.

-Lloyd

If you use osascript in your scripts they will cause a hard crash in CS5 and OSX 10.6.2

To fix the problem you need to prefix it with arch -i386:
I strongly urge everyone to update their scripts now before CS5 becomes widespread

-Lloyd