Motion designers often face the challenge of rendering individual layers from a composition for client reviews, asset delivery, or pipeline integration. Manually duplicating comps, soloing layers, and setting render queue outputs can be tedious and error-prone. The script you’ve shared elegantly solves this problem by automating the entire process. Let’s break down how it works,…
Here is another useful After Effects script that adds a marker-style highlight to selected text. This script is an improved version of SY HIGHLIGHT and still under progress.
Supercharge Your After Effects Workflow: The Ultimate Marker Script If you work in After Effects, you know that markers are your best friend. They are the unsung heroes of complex timelines, helping you sync animations to audio, note key moments, or simply keep your project organized. But let’s be honest: placing them manually, one by one, is tedious and time-consuming. What if you could add dozens of precisely-timed, color-coded markers to your composition or layers with just a few clicks?
Setting multiple features: Here are some other settings: Here are the set of functions available for text styling in After Effects expressions (all used on the style object): Function Purpose setFont(fontName, [startIndex], [endIndex]) Set font by PostScript/system name setFontSize(size, [startIndex], [endIndex]) Set font size setFauxBold(boolean, [startIndex], [endIndex]) Enable/disable faux bold setFauxItalics(boolean, [startIndex], [endIndex]) Enable/disable faux italics…
This After Effects script thoroughly cleans your project by automatically removing all expressions from every layer and property within your compositions. It recursively scans through property groups, ensuring that even nested expressions are eliminated. With built-in error handling and detailed logging, the script not only reports the total number of expressions removed but also provides…
Here is a function to convert any shape path into a bezier path. Make sure that you selected the sub path under contents. Manually Convert Parametric Shapes into a Bezier Path In this short guide, I’ll demonstrate how to effortlessly transform any Parametric Shape into a Bezier Path within Adobe After Effects. Step 1: Choose…
This script sorts all layers in a composition by their Z position, moving them into order based on their depth in 3D space. It does the following: