The After Effects Array Script can be quite handy at times.
Anything that will allow you to work faster and better in After Effects, should not be overlooked. After Effects is notorious for being a click-heavy, time-intensive dinosaur.
This becomes more evident when you work on high-end pipeline driven applications, such as Houdini, Maya, Nuke, Fusion and the like. Every application has its quirks — my point is that some applications just seem to be built for work and can handle a lot of it.
how to work faster in after effects using scripts, plugins and other techniques.
So working better and faster in After Effects becomes an important topic. Here, Motion Designer Bart Verlaak opens that will be a series of videos on how to work faster in After Effects using some 3rd party tools, techniques and tips.
Here, Bart starts by showing how the array and sortie scripts can save you a bunch of time in your workflow and process.
Array is almost like a C4D Cloner tool for After Effects, allowing you to easily duplicate and layers and change their properties in bulk.
Michael Delaney’s Sortie tool for Ae, offers some advanced ways to sort layers in the composition timeline.
