NT Productions shows how to gain access to menu commands with ExtendScript.

After Effects scripter, Nathan Lovell adds to his tutorial series covering ExtendScript training. The latest installment looks into using menu commands with Adobe’s scripting environment to launch anything that you can see under the menus in After Effects. The tutorial shows how to work with Menu ID’s and the app execute command too.

You can use command ID’s to gain access to some functions in After Effects that everyday scripting cannot. Using these techniques, you can pretty much have the ability to handle almost any contextual menu within Adobe After Effects.