Plugins, HOW DO I MAKE THEM???
by Reuben Lemer
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Mar 13, 2008 at 6:04:57 pm
Hi again,
There are so many ae plugins out there that there might at well be... I'm no good at similes. Anyway, I was wondering if there was a simple way to make your own plugins for After Effects. All I want is a customized title, with sliders that are the parent of individual effects which are on a preset I make. Because I have loads of presets, but its really irritating when I want to change them because I have to go into each individual effects and change it from there. Does anybody know if there's a simple way of doing this?
Re: Plugins, HOW DO I MAKE THEM??? by Ian Corey on Mar 13, 2008 at 6:18:42 pm
You could use Expression Controls on Null Object then Pickwhip the Properties of your preset effects to the Expression Controls.
For ease, maybe you can set up a project with all of the presets you commonly use (parented to the Expression Controls) and import that project into into any project you foresee a need for those presets.
Re: Plugins, HOW DO I MAKE THEM??? by Reuben Lemer on Mar 13, 2008 at 7:49:33 pm
Thanks, this is just what I needed, just seen Aharon Rabinowitz's tutorila on expression controls, thanks for giving me the right phrase ;). But one thing about them, can you join them so for example you have one effect with a point expression control and a slider expression control or do you always have to have individual sliders?
Re: Plugins, HOW DO I MAKE THEM??? by steve Roberts on Mar 13, 2008 at 9:08:11 pm
An effect's property (e.g. lens flare brightness) can have only one expression applied to it. However, that expression can refer to the value of one control, or it could combine the values of multiple sliders through addition, subtraction, multiplication, whatever .. inside the expression.
But maybe more to the point, an effect can have any or all of its properties controlled by one or more expression controls.
