Plugin Development for After Effects - 01 Introduction
After Effects Plugin Development is quite a complex subject. There is little information about it that is why I thought I should make a series on how to actually create after effects plugins and how development for after effects works. We will use video studio to create a affects plugin in this video.
Today I handle the basic setup and how to run our first project hope you like it!
I'm going to assume you know the basics of C++ because otherwise the video's will go way to deep.
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General Steps in the video:
1. Download the after effects SDK
2. Visual Studio on PC / Xcode on mac
3. My pc - advanced system settings - Environment variables - AE_PLUGIN_BUILD_DIR & EA_RUN_PATH
4. Start VS in administrator mode
5. Set the variables by using alt + enter to point to the plugin
6. Set a break point
7. Run and build your effects plugin!