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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

9 months

The align tool in After Effects is broken. Introducing Align Pro 👉 Put simply, everything you can do with Illustrator's align tool, is now possible right inside After Effects.

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Matt Volp

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2 months

Hidden Features of After Effects — Position Guides It's easy to add a guide to an After Effects composition, but how do you position them accurately? We find out in this handy tip! How many of you know about this one?

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Matt Volp

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2 months

The native After Effects Pre-compose tool isn't good enough, so naturally, we fixed it. Introducing Pre-compose Pro 👉 on sale right NOW for just $7.50. A brand new pre-comping experience with loads of new features.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

Hidden Features of After Effects — Feather Masks. Create cool gradients and feathery goodness with the Mask Feather Tool. How many of you know about this one?

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

Hidden Features of After Effects — Auto-keyframe Turn this on to have After Effects add a keyframe every time you change a value, even if the property isn't already keyframed. How many of you know about this one?

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2 months

Hidden Features of After Effects — Time Between Keyframes Ever wanted to know the amount of frames between keyframes super quickly? Well, here's all you need to do. How many of you know about this one?

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

Sometimes, After Effects can be slow, but it doesn't have to be. Introducing QualityControl 👉 on sale right NOW for just $14.25. Easily manage the preview render quality of your project — save layer properties, effect parameters and composition switches

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

Hidden Features of After Effects — Keyframe Indices. Ever wanted to have your keyframes labeled with their indices? (In other words, the number of each one from left to right). How many of you know about this one?

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

7 months

We've just shipped v1.2 of Align Pro for After Effects — you can now align layers to your composition's title/action safe guides. It even works if you've set custom values in your preferences! Get it here for just $10 👉

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

Hidden Features of After Effects — Secret AE Project! Did you know there is a secret After Effects project hidden in your system files? The Adobe team often change this for each update with some cool easter eggs inside. How many of you know about this one?

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 month

Hidden Features of After Effects — Reposition Shape Layer We all know how to create a shape, but did you know you can reposition it as you draw? How many of you know about this one?

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

Something that's always been missing from After Effects is a dedicated stroke properties panel — specifically a place to edit the dash, taper and wave settings. Until now. StrokeStyler is so simple and fast, it feels like a built-in part of #AfterEffects .

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

3 months

PSA: If you use After Effects and you haven’t bought the Align Pro tool yet, stop what you’re doing and pick it up. It’ll be the best $10 you’ve ever spent. It's so good, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

9 months

We've just shipped v1.1 of Align Pro for After Effects — you can now arrange the icons in a completely vertical column as well as a horizontal row, so no workspace is left behind! Get it here for just $10 👉

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

Hidden Features of After Effects — Sequence Layers. We all know there are many 3rd party scripts that can do this, but After Effects can actually do it natively. How many of you know about this one?

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

11 months

Did you miss my latest freebie for After Effects? AutoMotion adds automatic, keyframe-less animation to any layer, transform or effect property with 1, 2 or 3 dimensions. Oh, and did I mention it's totally free?! Get it here 👇

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

Well, what a day. Just found out that we got a mention on the most recent Motion Mondays from @SchoolOfMotion and it goes without saying that it was a massive surprise and a huge honor. If you're new here, then thank you and welcome! We've got a ton more 'Hidden Features of

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

Ever wondered how to change the UI highlight color of After Effects from the classic blue to something totally unique — like this purple? Here's a 🧵 on how to do just that.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

It's time to take your ScriptUI to the next level and build custom, interactive user interfaces for your After Effects tools. Learn about the ScriptUIGraphics object and the Custom element class in Extendscript and how to create this fancy button here 👉

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

Working with emojis inside of After Effects is a pain in the ass. There, I said it. But, AfterEmoji from @Tack_Studio makes it simple, easy and fun to insert them into comps as fully-editable, native shape layers. Get it here 👉 for only $19.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

7 months

Wondering what all the hype over Align Pro for After Effects is about? Well, here's a chart to explain all. Get it here for just $10 👉

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

Well, the internet has spoken. All 'Hidden Features of After Effects' are now on YouTube. I'll be posting all future ones to this playlist as well as the other usual platforms.

Hidden Features of After Effects

Whether you've been using After Effects for 5 years or 5 minutes, these are the hidden features that everyone should know.

www.youtube.com

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

StrokeStyler from @Tack_Studio brings the much-loved 'Align Dashes to Corners' functionality from Illustrator to After Effects — no more tedious guesswork or complex math! Get it here for just $19 👉

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

💡After Effects scripting tip: watch out for the mispelling of 'Silhouete' when getting or setting the blending mode of a layer to 'Silhouette Alpha' — you should incorrectly spell it with just one 't'. If you spell it correctly, it won't work!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

💡After Effects scripting tip: get and set the active tool in the Tools panel such as the pen tool, type tool, or the puppet tool. Useful when you want to prompt the user to carry out a specific task. Read more here 👉

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

💡After Effects scripting tip: use 'app.project.revision' find out how many actions a user has made in a project.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

If you're serious about levelling up your scripting skills inside of After Effects, here's a 🧵 of the essential resources you'll need.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

I'm only a month or so into having @AJFleet_Co as my accountant and boy has it been good. I can't recommend him and @HF_Strategy enough!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

I love pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in After Effects. I’m working on a tutorial series exploring how to use nothing but Extendscript and ScriptUI in After Effects to take your script panels to the next level — just like @Tack_Studio ’s AfterEmoji browser panel 👇🏼

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 month

We've recently dived head-first into the world of Bolt CEP from @hyperbrew and it has completely transformed how we build extensions for Adobe. It is wonderfully built, beautifully crafted and a true joy to use. If you've not tried it, you should. 10/10 would recommend 💯

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

Pure 🔥🔥

jayisforjelly

@JayIsForJelly

2 years

Thanks for the swag @dash_studio !! Woooweee 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

The easiest and fastest way to encode your scripts from JSX to JSXBIN is to use the Adobe Development Utils extension from @_alexmunteanu for @VisualStudio . Get it here 👉 Simply select your code, right-click and choose 'Encode JS selection to JSXBIN'.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

7 months

Regular expressions can be tricky. This is one of the best real-world applications of AI. 10/10 would recommend. from @gd3kr

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

9 months

This looks super interesting. Can't wait to try.

Kevin Snyder

@freshmograph

9 months

Stratify for @AdobeAE is so close. I'm looking forward to sharing it! Now you can sort your layers as well.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

💡After Effects scripting tip: use 'app.project.dirty' to check if a project has been saved — in other words, 'dirty' files will have a * next to the file name in the project window title.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

@mediaeasier True Comp Duplicator still wins that one. And it’s free!

True Comp Duplicator

Creates a complete duplicate of selected comp hierarchies including subcomps with many options.

aescripts.com

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

MASSIVE opportunity here. Even though I’m super happy being self-employed, I still get kinda jealous when I see these top studios are hiring 😅

dash

@dash_studio

2 years

BIG NEWS: WE'RE HIRING! Dash is looking to expand our team of thirteen to include a passionate Motion Designer & Sr. Motion Designer to help grow our studio. Check out our career page to learn more! Retweets & shares are appreciated!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

8 months

New year, new me? Well, not quite, but I would like to reintroduce myself to all of you who found me via our latest tool, Align Pro. I'm an animator & developer based in Manchester, UK. I run @Tack_Studio — a motion design studio specialising in intelligent animation production.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

Hidden Features of After Effects — Pre-compose Pro Not quite a hidden feature, but one you should definitely know about. This time, I take you through our new tool for After Effects, Pre-compose Pro. On sale NOW for just $7.50 until July 20th 👉

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

💡After Effects scripting tip: automatically update your copyright notice with the correct year using the Date object.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

@leonroy_ @AJFleet_Co @HF_Strategy Hands off! Lol jk. I stole him from @AdrianBentley , @Jamesp0p and probably hundreds more people in the lofts.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

At @Tack_Studio , we're always thinking about new ideas for tools in the software we use every day. We want to help motion designers create more efficient workflows. 💭 If you could fix one thing inside After Effects or Premiere Pro to make your life easier — what would it be?

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

9 months

@syfpsy Not yet, but this one of the top requested features since launch. We’ll be adding it very early in 2024!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

Keep your eyes peeled for this in the coming weeks! 🔥🔥

Tack Studio

@Tack_Studio

1 year

📢 Our new tool, QualityControl is a real time-saver. Save layer properties, effect parameters and composition switches like frame blending, motion blur and depth of field to three presets; low, medium and high, then apply them project-wide, instantly, in 1 click. Coming soon!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

Our latest tool — StrokeStyler — is out now! Save time twirling and focus on animating.

Tack Studio

@Tack_Studio

1 year

StrokeStyler is here! A dedicated stroke properties panel — a place to edit the dash, taper and wave settings. Also, it brings the 'Align Strokes to Corners' functionality from Illustrator to After Effects. Grab your copy now.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

@Garfieldisdoc So, imagine you have effects littered all over your project, like Camera Lens Blur or Wave Warp. Usually, you'd set the render heavy effect parameters to low until you want to render, when you'd go back through and change them back to high. With QualityControl, you can add

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

@cmykasey @ae_screens @ema_colombo The OG

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

@LizMoves Keyboard shortcuts. Efficiency is key these days and should be learnt early!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

Version 1.1 of Pre-compose Pro is live! Lots of fixes, changes and brand new things, including the super-useful, 'Pre-compose all layers separately' option. Upgrade now! 👉

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

6. — @Tack_Studio 's Medium. Last but not least, our own Medium page, with helpful articles all about pushing After Effects to its absolute limits (and beyond!) by combining animation with a heavy but healthy dose of coding.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

@CyangStifano @AXS_UK I would remove your email from the screenshot unless you want someone to use it instead of you.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

💡After Effects scripting tip: find out what operating system your user is running with the Dollar ($) object.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

💡After Effects scripting tip: first-party effect match names can be super confusing. Here's a few of the most obscure ones to watch out for. Find all match names here 👉

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

@rbvisuals @animatabledotco I’ve been working on a tool to convert these pesky filled icons into strokes/paths. It’s not ready yet and I doubt it will be for your project but I’ll check back here when it is!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

7 months

Writing a new tool and realised that Adobe couldn't have come up with longer names for a tiny, unassuming cog icon if they tried: 'Collapse Transformations' &' Continuously Rasterize' 😏

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

9 months

@aembury Gotcha — I thought that’s what you meant. Perhaps if the reception to this one is positive I’ll consider updating it with 3D support in v2. If I do, I’d appreciate your input — I’ll get back in touch should that day ever come.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

Notion is easily one of the underrated and underused tools of all time. It’s amazing. We’ve managed to condense a complicated stack of studio management tools into one easy-to-use system and saved a ton of money in the process. Project management, HR, biz dev, marketing — you

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

10 months

It's that time of year again. Get 25% off everything at aescripts with code CYBER. That means you can pick up AfterEmoji, the best tool for working with emojis inside After Effects for just $14.25. Get it here 👉

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

6 months

But why? What’s so wrong with a real voice from a real human. I don’t get any of the hype around these applications of AI.

Tom Osman 🐦‍⬛

@tomosman

6 months

"You can tell its a human because AI doesn't use filler wor......" Voice models entering level 2.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

The folks over at Adobe have really been showing us scripting nerds some love lately! Thanks to @FakeGreenDress & @AdobeDWaterfall for leading the charge 🫡

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

I understand the power of ChatGPT and all the good it may bring in the future but right now in it’s current form, I hate it. Every day there’s something that used to require real skills and knowledge getting pushed aside in favour of a computer.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

@gradiaflow Well, I can think of a few reasons — although they’re mainly technical. It could be useful for writing expressions or scripts when you need to know exactly which keyframe to loop or edit?

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

@mysteropodes Not to the window itself, but it's possible to apply this kind of styling on groups, which you could set as the background element. I'll get to that in future articles!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

10 months

@hell_o_lovely @AdobeAE Great idea. In the meantime, this script should hopefully help you — if I understood you correctly!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

Yep. You read that right. Emojis are coming soon to an After Effects near you 🥳

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

7 months

It means the globals aren't born yet — what else? 🫠

AE Screens

@ae_screens

7 months

Anyone know what these errors are all about?

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

Well, it's that time again folks! Our ( @Tack_Studio ) entire catalog is on SALE at @aescripts . Align Pro — just $7.50 QualityControl — just $14.25 AfterEmoji — just $14.25 StrokeStyler — just $14.25 Get them all here 👉

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

4. Finally, navigate to the ‘Appearance’ settings in After Effects’ preferences and you’ll see a new button labelled ‘Change Color’. 🎨 You can now use this button to change the UI highlight color to anything you want!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

For the love of god, yes!

Sandy Lindsay MBE 🐝

@SandyLindsay

2 years

Come on @ManCityCouncil @TraffordCouncil and whoever else, please can we have some answers on the future of the ‘temporary’ cycle lane on the A56 which daily causes massive tailbacks and pollution but clearly doesn’t work for cyclists as I see about one a day if that??

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

There has been a huge influx of incredible third-party development for After Effects already this year and we're only a week in. Here are some of the best👇🏻

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

This really hasn't had the recognition it deserves. It's perhaps one of the most creative uses of the Expression Selector in AE I've ever come across. Genius! 🏆

Luis Martínez

@luigimx_

6 years

If you're a motion designer, you definitively animate text. Expression Selectors in @AdobeAE are tricky, but you can use actual text to match and control selections. Watch a demo video I just made: #aftereffects #rigging #mograph #motionGraphics #luigimx

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

The new After Effects Properties Panel really is a gamechanger. StrokeStyler is the perfect companion for it, adding even more properties within easy reach!

Tack Studio

@Tack_Studio

1 year

Have you seen the new Properties Panel in the latest version of After Effects? It's a gamechanger — but doesn't include stroke dashes, taper or wave settings. StrokeStyler fills that gap and puts these 3 essential properties within easy reach. Out now!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

11 months

. @Tack_Studio — the technical animation studio, is now officially 18 months old, so it's about time we had a proper website. Well, is now live. We offer a range of digital products & creative services, combining the latest tech with the best in

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

@TeaMakerJason @FakeGreenDress I mean I knew the anchor point thing but never understood why it’s called pan behind. Mind blown.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

7 months

@longlivemikey @AdobeAE @ElementSupplyCo Impressive! 🔥

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

6 months

@longlivemikey If you do your design work in AE, then you almost certainly need to pick up our Align Pro tool if you haven’t already — it’ll change your life! 😏

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

@TeaMakerJason Yep! Coming in the next couple weeks.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 months

@DmytroKorolkov @SchoolOfMotion I haven’t yet, but perhaps there is a mandate to do that now! I’ve got a ton more to get through so I’ll upload them all when I release the next ones.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

3 years

@limbertools @BREW_C00L this is huge.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

3 years

@FakeGreenDress I spotted you when I watched it live! 👀 I’m ordering the Mac Studio M1 Max, the only thing I need now is the full M1 release of AE 🙏🏻

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

7 months

Hell yeah! High praise indeed 🔥

Thomas Alberti

@tom_01

7 months

i have a thousand scripts, extensions, and plugins and apparently none of them can distribute layers with equal spacing between the layer boundaries (not anchor points). align pro just did for 70 layers in ~1 sec. rare these days to make another purchase but here we are.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

@AdrianBentley Happy new year to you! But why have you shared a screenshot of a photo instead of the photo itself? 🤔

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

#JASMY if you know, you know. 🚀🚀

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

@freshmograph @aescripts This is dope. Gonna pick this new version up for sure!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

I’d give your copywriter a call and apologise if I were you. This copy is awful. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Marketing Max

@MarketingMax

2 years

1/ Ad copywriter This one is obvious because all tools built with this tech so far are copywriting tools but still... I was paying a very expensive ad copywriter so I just replaced them with this prompt for ChatGPT:

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

💡After Effects scripting tip: use 'app.version' to find out which version of AE your user is running.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

The #Barbie movie should be shown in all schools, every year, as part of the curriculum. Then the world just might be a slightly better place.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

@HayleyAkins Booking system for me!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

@gabor Hey man. Closely following your progress with T2. How many are on the waitlist? I’m super stoked to get access! 😬

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

11 months

@eyedesyn See you there, EJ!

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

@AdrianBentley I will keep my eye close to the ground.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

3 months

@stevekirby @lachamade Haha this is great. It seems you have to have multiple mathematics degrees to be able to wrangle any kind of expressions that deal with beziers in AE. Amirite?

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

@FrazDav @HulkHogan @MrLeeMcAteer you seen these, dude? Thought you’d appreciate.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

@AdrianBentley @McrBuilds @YadoGraffiti I’ve been wondering about these for years! You’ve got yourself a new follower.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

2 years

@FakeGreenDress Game. Changer. I’ve not been this excited for a new feature in a long time.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

@AdrianBentley Whoops.

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Matt Volp

@MattVolp

1 year

Thanks, Dwayne! The next one is coming very soon — just crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s.

Dwayne Terrell

@dwayneterrell

1 year

@MattVolp Really really enjoyed this Medium article. Can't wait for the next one. I will actually now NOT skip over that section in the Javascript Tools Guide ✊

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