Note: The palette cannot detect any errors in the scripts that you run from it. It’s just a quick way of launching scripts without restarting AE or using ExtendScript Toolkit (i.e., switching away from AE).

If a PNG file of a similar name and same folder as the script file (but with a .png file name extension) exists, it will appear next to the script name in the list.

Enhancements requested by Russ Maehl.

Nathan Clark has created some awesome icons you can use with rd: Script Launcher that he has graciously shared with the community: Download Icons

Version History

• v2.5 Fixed listbox text color in AE CS5. Filtered out script itself from appearing in the list (Aug 2010)
• v2.4 Initial release on aescripts.com (Aug 2009)

Change the frame offsets by entering new values in any of the four fields.

For the favorites buttons, captured times are in seconds. Also, although you can capture negative time values, After Effects restricts the minimum time value to 0 seconds (start of the composition); the maximum time is 10,800 seconds.

Your frame offsets and captured time favorites are saved as settings for use in subsequent sessions.

Originally requested by Scott Hudziak at DIGITALKITCHEN.

This script is used as part of the Cinematic Opening Title Redux tutorial hosted on Aetuts+

This script displays a palette with controls for slicing the selected layer into a grid. Slicing works best with non-rotated layers. If a parent null layer is created, it will be anchored at the layer’s current anchor point.

You can shrink each slice’s mask by increasing the Margin value (in pixels), and rounding its corners by increasing the Roundness value (percentage of half the shorter of the layer’s width or height).

Note: This version of the script requires After Effects CS3 or later. It can be used as a dockable panel by placing the script in a ScriptUI Panels subfolder of the Scripts folder, and then choosing this script from the Window menu.

Originally requested by Anthony Lassiter and Chris Meyer.

Enhancements requested by Matt Silverman.

If using a still or movie proxy, proxies will be rendered using existing render settings and output module template, preferably Best Settings / Photoshop for stills, and Draft Settings / Lossless with Alpha for movies.

Note: If you want to use a still-frame proxy, make sure to set the output module template to a still-image format. Conversely, if you want to use a movie proxy, set the template to a movie file format.

If using a file, you will be asked to select the file when you click the Set Proxy button. If using stills or movies, you are asked to select an output folder.

If using only the Selected Layers in Comp (i.e., not all layers), the selected layers are moved to the top of the comp as part of the sorting process. If sorting by Layer Name, layers that have not been renamed (i.e., their names appear enclosed in brackets), the brackets will sort those layers before renamed layers.

Note: The In and Out points of negatively stretched layers are identified by their positions in comp time (i.e., their out times are treated as In points, and vice versa).

This script is used as part of the Cinematic Opening Title Redux tutorial on Aetuts+

Originally requested by Phil Spitler.
Enhancements inspired by nab (www.nabscripts.com) and djuna (dwahlrab).

Rendering uses existing render settings and output module template, so be sure to create them beforehand. When you run this script, you can select the templates to use; select the range of frames for each selected layer to render; control if unselected, adjustment, active camera, and light layers should be rendered as well; and define the name for each rendered output. Each rendered layer will generate separate “render finished” sounds.

The Output Name Template can be defined with the same properties available in the File Name Templates dialog box, with the following additions:

• [layerName] — Current layer’s name
• [layerNumber] — Current layer’s index number

Note: If you select an output template that uses a single-image format (such as Photoshop), be sure to include the [#####] property in the Output Name Template.

Note: If the layer is completely outside of the composition time range, the layer will not be rendered. However, if you select a range of Work Area and the layer is outside of the composition’s work area, the layer will still be rendered.

Enhancements requested by Gary Jaeger and James Tobias.

Known issue:
• Using the “Leave all attributes” option on a single selected negatively stretched layer doesn’t trim the layer correctly.

Originally requested by Gary Jaeger.

To store the selected composition’s layer state, select the layer features from the Layer Features to Capture list, and then click the upward-pointing arrow corresponding to one of the six State buttons.

To recall a previously stored composition layer state, select the “target” composition in the Project panel, and then click the State button corresponding to the state you want to apply. The maximum number of layers affected is determined by the lower number of layers in the recalled state or in the current composition.

Originally requested by Stu Maschwitz.

Note: If you select the Keyframes = Selected option, the script might take awhile to finish, depending on the number of keyframes and the selected settings. Also, this option works on only the first selected layer.

There are four navigation buttons that you can use. The frame offset appears above each button, but you can change these to any positive number. These offsets are saved as settings for use in subsequent sessions.

Originally requested by Stu Maschwitz. Thanks for the challenge.

Markers created by this script are identified by a Frame Target value of “redefinery” so that they can be updated accordingly.

Note: The generated layer markers do not update automatically as you modify keyframes, but you can re-run this script to update them accordingly.

If multiple keyframes exist at the same time, and you have selected to use a non-custom or non-keyframe time comment, the information for each keyframe will be separated by semicolons. However, marker comments are limited to 63 characters.

Note: If placing markers on the top or selected layer, and the layer contains existing markers that you created, they will not be affected unless they exist at the same times as keyframes being identified.