This script is designed for easing my workflow in AE. I was honestly surprised that there were no toolbar buttons or panels for this packaged in AE already. Sure, you can right click in the layer panel and choose your new layer that way, but when the panel starts filling up, you need to scroll down to find a blank space in order to right-click -> add new. I was frustrated with the constant process, so I made this quick and dirty AddNew panel.
The New Solid button doesn’t work perfectly yet, as it brings up the system color picker, but editing the solid color after placement is easy with ctrl+shift+y. Still searching for a way to use the Adobe color picker.
Download: o3_AddNew version 1.5
Place in “Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels”, and as always, if the ScriptUI Panels folder doesn’t exist, simply create it.
AddNew – AE Script Panel
This script is designed for easing my workflow in AE. I was honestly surprised that there were no toolbar buttons or panels for this packaged in AE already. Sure, you can right click in the layer panel and choose your new layer that way, but when the panel starts filling up, you need to scroll down to find a blank space in order to right-click -> add new. I was frustrated with the constant process, so I made this quick and dirty AddNew panel.
The New Solid button doesn’t work perfectly yet, as it brings up the system color picker, but editing the solid color after placement is easy with ctrl+shift+y. Still searching for a way to use the Adobe color picker.
Download: o3_AddNew version 1.5
Place in “Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels”, and as always, if the ScriptUI Panels folder doesn’t exist, simply create it.