
With those in place, you can create a jsx file, at any time hit F1, find 'Adobe After Effects', the script will be saved and run within AE.ĭavid Torno helpfully shared links to his pretty extensive free training series too, cool stuff: I had trouble getting it going the first time, but watching this video clarified. The older Extendscript editor works, but its, well, old. Will try again one day, using this link as a guide: There's also a way to link directly to VSCode, but last time I tried it refused to work. That same web page says to set After Effects as the target, this is done from the first dropdown in the top left, where it says 'ExtendScript Toolkit CC', change that to 'Adobe After Effects 2022'. Amusingly you can't launch it from the creative cloud launcher, but it should be available from your Windows start menu.

Restart creative cloud, you'll find Extendscript Toolkit CC. Go to creative cloud, prefs, turn on 'show older apps'. Turns out its hidden, this page gave clues to where it is:

Several tutorial sites mention a scripting interface, but I couldn't find it. Hit the windows key and R at the same time, type 10.2 JSX isn't very strict about syntax.
