Live Update - how to know if its on?
Has anyone ever required to find out if current render call is during live update or not? I would have imagined that it should be available at AEGP_GetCompFlags(), but its not! In such case a smaller...
View ArticleHow to compile .rc file?
Hi everyone. I'm trying to change a version of my plugin in the .r file, but it does not recompile the resource file - the version number stays the same. I tried copying custom build settings from...
View ArticleDoes Adobe Pixel Bender work with AE CS6/Premiere Pro CS6
Hello All, I want to create a GPU accelerated video processing plugin for After Effects/Premiere. I just came across Adobe "Pixel Bender" here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pixelbender.html It seems to...
View ArticleCalculating the blending ratio
Hey guys! I'm trying to blend two images together using the WorldTransformSuite->blend function. I want to be able to control the blending ratio with a slider. Now, I looked into the AE_EffectCB...
View ArticleDetect parenting event
Hi! Is there a way to detect when user sets parenting on a layer?PF_Event may be? Thanx,François
View ArticleCan I create Paint Effect brush strokes from code?
Hi, Long time reader, first time poster. Will the SDK enable me to draw "Paint Effect" brush strokes from path data with per-vertex pressure information? I have been using ExtendScript to...
View ArticleAny way to click a button on an effect?
Hi there. I'm trying to figure out a way to simulate a user pressing a button on an effect. I've seen others asking about this w/o...
View ArticleFlattening Data for Sequence Data & Arbitrary Data, is this so different from...
Howdy folks, I have an effect plugin that needs to store persistent data. I've read all the forum threads I could find discussing flattening/unflattening data, the SDK sections discussing this, as...
View ArticleUsers receiving error: Couldn't find main entry point for myPlugin.plugin...
Hello all, I've recently released a plugin into the wild and a few (1/20) people have been receiving this error. A cursory search on that code doesn't really give me a lot of helpful information about...
View ArticleCreateNewFolder: Mismatch between SDK function and documentation
Hi, There is a mismatch between SDK documentation and actual API function. SDK Documentation:Creates a new folder in the project. The newly created folder is allocated and owned by After Effects....
View ArticleLayer_parameter doesn't trigger any call
Hi! my plugin's using position path from a null layer. I select this null with a Layer_parameter.However, I don't get any call when this path changes... even with WIDE_TIME_INPUT set. The 'solution' I...
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set the size of the layer using resizer
Hi All, I try to understand the sample project resizer, and I have some problem. when I apply the effect "resizer" ,I find that I can only get a canvas which size is customer defined, but the...
View ArticleAny tutorials/examples of using JUCE as a GUI for the Panelator?
Hi All, I'm trying to replace the PanelatorUI_Plat class with Juce GUI. Though, it should be simple and strait forward, I'm literally failing to make the things work. Any examples/tutorials for doing...
View ArticleGetting footage file paths from project file
Maybe this isn't the best place to ask, but I'm curious if there is a way to get a list of all of the footage files in a project and list their file paths, using only the .aep project file. My goal is...
View Article.Plugin Files
Dear After Effects Developer Community, Sorry for being annoying and posting lots of questions, but hopefully this is the last one. I've finished with the code for my plugin, and I'm ready to test it...
View ArticleWhy would rowbytes be negative and 4 times larger?
When receiving input and output worlds in Premiere (registered with pixel format of PrPixelFormat_BGRA_4444_32f), I keep getting the world that has the rowbytes equal to -30720 (for a typical 1920x1080...
View ArticleLayer Parameter Returning Cropped Pixels
How can I get a smart plugin to return me all pixels from a "texture" layer parameter, when this layer is bigger than the effect layer? Example - I have a 2048x2048 pixel "texture" layer that I...
View ArticleDeleting all keyframes
What is the best way to delete all keyframes of a stream? Calling KeyframeSuite3()->AEGP_DeleteKeyframe for every key works, but takes quite a bit of time. I was hoping to just virtually toggle the...
View ArticleAE SDK XCode 5
Hello I recently installed XCode 5 on my OS X 10.9. Suddeny i having problem compiliny ma projects. I also tried the example Projects but non of them seem to work. Is there a solution ? Will there be...
View ArticleCan't load plugins in the MediaCore folder
So, my After Effects is installed in "E:\Adobe\After Effects CS6",so the MediaCore folder's path is "E:\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS6\MediaCore".I just started to learn the SDK yesterday. When I was...
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