April 19th 2012 08:00:43am
In this episode:
Javascript basics will be essential to building most of the functionality of your scripts in the long run. Episodes 2 and 3 will go over the more common bits of Javascript code that you will be using in this series, and beyond.
While most artists freak out when hearing the term “coding”, I assure you I will try to make this as painless as I can. I started as a compositing artist, and had zero coding background when I tried ExtendScript. It did take me some time to figure it out initially since I didn’t have a resource like this series, but I always told myself that if I did learn ExtendScript I would share that knowledge. Hopefully saving you the long process I had to go through. Lots of reverse engineering and failures to understand what did what.
Learning coding has opened up so many doors, and has improved my workflows tremendously. Just wait until you run a batch script to process 1000’s of items for the first time. One button click and a few minutes or seconds of process, saving you hours, or days of manually doing the work. At that moment you’ll know that you made the right choice. The effort was worth it.
