For templating projects like telling brooms to fill buckets.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a script for Adobe After Effects designed to make templating (and using templates) easy. It provides rules for creating template compositions which can be filled as simply as filling out a form and attaching images.
Installed like any other AE script; download the both the script and the UI Panel from the downloads page, then add the unzipped script file to your AE Scripts folder (Applications/Adobe After Effects <version>/Scripts on a mac and Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects <version>\Support Files\Scripts on a windows) and the unziped UI Panel file to the ScriptUI Panels subfolder.
Once both the script and the UI Panel are installed, restart AE (if it’s open) and open the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.jsx from the bottom of the ‘Window’ menu. You can then doc the panel wherever works for you and run the script from young Mickey’s magic button.
Starting with version 2.3.0, you must also install the Google “dwebp” CLI app. You can do so by Downloading it (either from google or it's included in this repo under 'dependencies') and placing it in the same folder as the main script file.
In order for the script to be able to troubleshoot problematic image files, you must give it permission to write files. You can do this my going to Preferences > Scripting & Expressions in After Effects and checking the “Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network” box.
Full documentation can be found at http://proteus.adamthomashoward.com/sorcerer-script/.
If you have any questions, feature requests, etc please reach out to Adam Howard at [email protected].