CCA – Color Control Automation

About

• After Effects Script for improving and increasing productivity when creating Color Controls. Stop Pick-Whipping and let the Script do it for You!
• CAA automates the process of generating and managing Color Controls, as well as the expression links for those colors.
• Choose between 8 different Color Effects to be processed by the script at any time.
• CCA has been extensively tested on many After Effects Templates, as well as other complex AE Projects.
• Bonus function: Automatically apply Colors on Text Layers, making them easy to link with Color Controls.

What’s different from other Script?

• CAA is not a palette Script, there is no fancy interface or steep learning curve. No third party plugins or any kind of installation necessary each time you deliver a project to your client.
• As a Utility Script it was build to ease the labor intensive process of creating Color Controls, Color Picking and Pick-Whipping everything by hand in order to create the Expression links.

Features

• CREATE Individual / Universal Color Controls
• UPDATE Individual / Universal Color Controls
• DELETE Color Expressions
• BAKE Control Colors
• APPLY Text Colors
• 3 Processing Methods:
  • Process Active Comp
  • Process Selected Comps
  • Process All Comps
• Select 8 Different Color Effects:
  • Fill
  • Ramp
  • 4-Color Gradient
  • Stroke
  • Tint
  • Tritone
  • Drop Shadow
  • Shapes (Fill and Stroke)

Intended Users

• After Effects Artists who work with large projects and need a quick way of creating and managing Color Controls.
• Freelancers who prepare projects for clients and want a way to send easily customizable files that work with native AE Controls.
• After Effects Template Authors.
• Anyone who is looking to save hours or days by not pick-whipping and creating Color Controls by hand.

Script Overview / Tutorial

Technical Details

• CCA (Color Control Automation) works with Adobe After Effects CS5.5 or Newer Version.
• Script has been tested processing over 30,000 Color Effects in one AE Project for about 5 min.
• Your processing speed may vary based on your AE Project complexity and system configuration.
• (1) Script comes with a couple of limitations to be aware of when preparing your Comps and Layers. For more info please checkout the Script Overview video linked above.

Templates created with CCA:

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