Top 5 Sites for AE Scripting Resources

Jeff McIntosh — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:39:18 +0000

1. After Effects Scripts

2.Dan Ebbert’s Resource for AE scripting and expressions

3. Creative Cow After Effects Scripting

4. XScriptorium

5. AE Enhancers

Honorable mention
Greymachine’s 5 Favorite Expressions

Shadowbox.js Flash media and Google Analytics

Jeff McIntosh — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:19:36 +0000

One breakthrough that I made when developing my new website was the ability to track when Shadowbox.js was initiated to view an FLV file. Traditionally the standalone JW FLV Media Player that Shadowbox.js utilizes can call the flashvar “callback” with the value “analytics”. Unfortunately it looks like this flashvar is no longer supported and if it was it would not work because Shadowbox.js uses AJAX to load its player and content.

The premise of the solution comes from Google’s Analytics Help article: How do I track files (such as PDF, AVI, or WMV) that are downloaded from my site? The solution is to place a piece of JavaScript code within the HTML link’s tag. Here is an example that relates to calling Shadowbox.js content from a website:

Click here to play my video

Here is the breakdown of what is happening: the video myvideo.mp4 is being called to play in my Shadowbox player at a resolution of 640×480. An onclick JavaScript is also being called at the same time telling Google Analytics to track the page view for the category “videos” for the item “myvideo”. The category does not have to be named “videos” however you will want to choose a name that helps keep things organized because this is what will come up in your Google Analytics Top Content Report.

One last note is that you need to place your Google Analytics Tracking code at the top of your page within your tag and not at the bottom. This is necessary because the tracking code needs to be initiated before the onclick Javascript links can work.

Written by Jeff McIntosh

After Effects Scripts

Jeff McIntosh — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:19:15 +0000

A great place to find custom made After Effects scripts is aescripts.com. Lloyd Alvarez is the creator of the site and is a genius at creating AE scripts. He was even gracious enough to create for me a custom script that installs a video output control panel for my external video monitor. Go check out his work and see all the goodies that he has created.

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Top 5 Sites for AE Scripting Resources

Shadowbox.js Flash media and Google Analytics

After Effects Scripts