Hello!
I'm new on programming plugins for Adobe After Effects and just wondering if there is an API to call After Effects from an external Software?
I'm starting coding a software to administrate some After Effect projects with the same content. This content includes placeholders which should be replaced with Adobe Illustrator files, but the Illustrator Files are individually for each project and after replacing them the project should start rendering itself.
I read and searched the SDK, the PDF and example files for days now, but i can't find something really useful.
The way i would work on it:
- Programming a Plugin for replacing the placeholders (the path of the files can be read from an temporary textfile so the Illustrator Files can be put in the individual projects)
- Programming an individual Software which contains all projects-paths and a database including the paths of the Illustrator Files (this Software starts the A.A.E-Project-File and activates the Plugin)
Can you tell me with which example project i should start or is there a better way to program such a administration tool?
Software: Visual Studio (C++)
Operating System: Windows 7 64bit
Thanks for your Help!
Best Regards
Manuel