CCA – Color Control Automation About After Effects Script for improving and increasing productivity when creating Color Controls. CAA automates the process of generating and managing Color Controls, as well as the expression links for those colors. Bonus function: Automatically apply Colors on Text Layers, making them easy to link with Color Controls. As a Utility Script it was build to ease the labor intensive process of creating Color Controls, Color Picking and Pick-Whipping everything by hand in order to create the Expression links. Features CREATE Individual / Universal Color Controls UPDATE Individual / Universal Color Controls DELETE Color Expressions BAKE Control Colors APPLY Text Colors 3 Processing Methods: Process Active Comp Process Selected Comps Process All Comps Select 8 Different Color Effects: Fill Ramp 4-Color Gradient Stroke Tint Tritone Drop Shadow Shapes (Fill and Stroke) Intended Users After Effects Artists who work with large projects and need a quick way of creating and managing Color Controls. Script Overview / Tutorial Technical Details CCA (Color Control Automation) works with Adobe After Effects CS5.5 or Newer Version. Script has been tested processing over 30,000 Color Effects in one AE Project for about 5 min.
CCA – Color Control Automation
About
- After Effects Script for improving and increasing productivity when creating Color Controls. Stop Pick-Whipping and let the Script do it for You!
- CAA automates the process of generating and managing Color Controls, as well as the expression links for those colors.
- Choose between 8 different Color Effects to be processed by the script at any time.
- CCA has been extensively tested on many After Effects Templates, as well as other complex AE Projects.
- Bonus function: Automatically apply Colors on Text Layers, making them easy to link with Color Controls.
What’s different from other Script?
- CAA is not a palette Script, there is no fancy interface or steep learning curve. No third party plugins or any kind of installation necessary each time you deliver a project to your client.
- As a Utility Script it was build to ease the labor intensive process of creating Color Controls, Color Picking and Pick-Whipping everything by hand in order to create the Expression links.
Features
- CREATE Individual / Universal Color Controls
- UPDATE Individual / Universal Color Controls
- DELETE Color Expressions
- BAKE Control Colors
- APPLY Text Colors
- 3 Processing Methods:
- Process Active Comp
- Process Selected Comps
- Process All Comps
- Select 8 Different Color Effects:
- Fill
- Ramp
- 4-Color Gradient
- Stroke
- Tint
- Tritone
- Drop Shadow
- Shapes (Fill and Stroke)
Intended Users
- After Effects Artists who work with large projects and need a quick way of creating and managing Color Controls.
- Freelancers who prepare projects for clients and want a way to send easily customizable files that work with native AE Controls.
- After Effects Template Authors.
- Anyone who is looking to save hours or days by not pick-whipping and creating Color Controls by hand.
Script Overview / Tutorial
Technical Details
- CCA (Color Control Automation) works with Adobe After Effects CS5.5 or Newer Version.
- Script has been tested processing over 30,000 Color Effects in one AE Project for about 5 min.
- Your processing speed may vary based on your AE Project complexity and system configuration.
- (1) Script comes with a couple of limitations to be aware of when preparing your Comps and Layers. For more info please checkout the Script Overview video linked above.
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