First Steps

First Steps

Preliminary Checklist

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Introduction

This chapter includes several lessons that you can gradually work through and provides a quick and easy introduction to AE's scripting language.

You can use AE Script in order to control and handle various processes. For example, you can change and process objects or execute arithmetic operations.
Scripts simplify processes because they replace many steps that otherwise would have to be executed manually. They also provide unique functions such as arithmetic functions and process loops.

All executable objects can include scripts. Process tabs are available for this purpose.

The general structure of scripts is described in the document script structure.