Further Reading for Debugging After Effects ExpressionsĬhris and Trish Meyer had a great series which spoke at length on the topic of After Effects Expressions. Check out the tutorial for Techniques for Debugging After Effects Expressions here. The second part consists of a practical example, where the expression will have some errors in it, which shows how the debugger can work pragmatically.įelt Tips give a great explanation of what expressions are doing, with a look under the hood of the After Effects Expressions engine. It is because the Source Text property can accept a wider range of input, by accepting a string, it can be used cleverly for the purposes of debugging After Effects Expressions.įelt Tips sections the tutorial in two parts, looking first at some of the things that are possible by using a debugging layer in After Effects, writing a little function that can show the methods and properties of an object.
This technique uses the source text property of a Text Layer in After Effects, as it is more forgiving than other properties such as position or rotation. Felt Tips posts a great tutorial showing how you can create your own tools using the source text property of a text layer to find problem areas of After Effects Expressions.Įxpressions in After Effects are a massively useful, but without any specific tools for the job, debugging them can be rather tricky Felt Tips.
Debugging tools in After Effects? Not if are seasoned in the way of scripting or writing complex and abstracting expressions, then no… AE’s tools for debugging expressions practically don’t exist.
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