After Effects Command IDs

v2.0.1

Find and use Command IDs for scripting in Adobe After Effects across versions.

Full blog post: https://hyperbrew.co/blog/after-effects-command-ids/

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Viewer

Open the viewer to quickly search and find the Command ID for your version of After Effects:

https://hyperbrew.github.io/after-effects-command-ids

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Usage

Use Command IDs in After Effects with app.executeCommand();

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JSON

Download the complete list of JSON file for each version of After Effects in the /json/ folder.

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Scanner

v2.0 adds a MacOS Menu Scanner to the process to capture even more Command IDs.

To run yourself:

• clone the repo on Mac
• install dependencies: yarn
• Launch the desired After Effects version
• Update the version variable in parser\menu-scan-run.js to your After Effects Version (e.g. 2024, 2025, etc)
• run the scanner: yarn scan (or just yarn scan-post if you already have generated the 1-results-raw-vvvv.txt which takes several minues)
• wait several minutes for the process to complete
• results will printed to: 8-merged-results-vvvv.json

See the scanner in /parser/menu-scan-run.js for more details

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Menu Develop Quickstart

• Install: yarn
• Develop: yarn dev
• Build: yarn build