Refer to 2dCam.pdf

Refer to 2dCam.pdf

1. Install Adobe After Effects
2. Install Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit for debugging. For me, the official dmg installer would not work, so I downloaded using from this link that I found on a forum post, and then the installer itself was broken so I had to right click > Show Package Contents, then open Contents/MacOS/Install with the the termianl.

The ExtendScript Toolkit app freezes constantly for me, so I developed using VSCode and ran it using the Run script file... menu item in After Effects. Then, whenever there was an error, I would jump into ExtendScript Toolkit to for it's error messages, logs, data browser etc.

I also went into Preferences... > Documents and turned on Automatic Reload of Changed Files so that the changes I make in VSCode show up automatically in ExtendScript Toolkit.

• After Effects Scripting Guide
• JavaScript Tools Guide
• Match names PDF
• Run the log_selected_match_names.jsx script to log every match name of the selected layers.
• Run the get_image_binary.jsx script to get the binary of a PNG or JPG, for inlining in scripts.