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Load Project or Template at Startup
Based on a request over at the creative cow, this script will launch a project or template every time your start After Effects. For example, if you have a certain folder/file structure you like to keep for your AE projects, you can setup a virgin project the way you like it and save it as a template by giving it a .aet extension. Now every time you launch AE your custom setup will be automatically loaded.
This script consists of 2 separate script files: loadProjectSetup.jsx and loadProject.jsx. Install loadProjectSetup.jsx in the Scripts folder first, then loadProject.jsx in the Startup folder inside the Scripts folder. Click on the image below to see the proper placement for both script files:
Restart AE and run loadProjectSetup.jsx first from the File->Scripts menu to choose which project or template you would like loaded at startup. After running the setup, whichever project or template was chosen will be loaded everytime AE starts as long as loadProject.jsx is in the Startup folder.
You can change the project to be loaded at any time by running loadProjectSetup.jsx again. To stop the project from loading at startup, simply remove loadProject.jsx from the Startup folder.
You can convert any after effects project by changing the file extension from .aep to .aet
Download: loadProject.zip
Hey Llyod Great stuff here! Thanks a lot for all the scripts.
However the loadProject script wont work, it just keeps crashing AE CS3
Any thoughts?
thanks
Jon
After following up with Jon we realized that the crash was due to the fact that he did not have permissions set properly for the Scripts folder.
I had to change my permissions owner from “system” to “admin” to be able to add a new folder in my scripts folder. This caused the loadProject script to not work properly.
So if you have to change your permissions to add a new folder to your scripts folder make sure you set it back before restarting AE.