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Both After Effects and Premiere Pro are scriptable using the extendscript API Adobe have provided for them: here are docs for AE and PP. Extendscript is based on Javascript (ES5). …

Use a dropdown. Select Dropdown Expression Control from Effects>Expression Controls and hit edit to input the colour names. Then use a switch to deal with the four possible choices. let colourChoice …

The problem that you won't be able to easily fix is the missing parts of the right hand in the foreground layer. But if you're ok with that there are a couple of ways to do this shot. First you could …

That script uses the variable shrink, which paradoxically increases with time. Just make it decrease with time, e.g. by replacing the first line with these two: var endTime = 123; //how long you wan …

If you go to the sequence window you can hit uu (that's double tapping the u key), to show all modified properties. Then copy all the keyframes and values (drag the cursor over the whole timeline area …

I think you might be getting confused. Have you tried re-importing the video back into AE and checking the alpha channel there? Otherwise use your player app's information function to check the pixel …

Are you exporting to h.264? Try rendering to a master file in a intermediate codec like ProRes, Cineform or DNxHR. Rendering to h.264 involves referencing multiple frames to create the intermediate f …

Why not import the folder into PP and watch and sort them in PP? After all that is the whole purpose of the application. As you watch them you add the ones you want to the end of a timeline (hit the …

Is the camera moving? If it's a still shot you could make a clean plate of the empty city in Photoshop and use a green screen for the actor. If you don't want the shot locked-off you can cheat add som …

There's a script that does it for you (I just wrote it). You can get it (free, open source, WTFPL license) here on my blog. With the playhead in a gap, run the script and it will pull the layers after …

@user2248 is on the money. The only software I know of that can do this sort of thing is ffmpeg. I'll expand on his answer: Import mymovie.mp4 into Premiere Pro, or audition or whatever. Do your sou …

you're using 4:2:0 colour, as most image formats will be 4:4:4, so that will save some space -tune "stillimage" tells the encoder (by default the fabulous x.264 encoder, which is way better than anything Adobe …

Firstly it looks like your sequence is 720x480, i.e. standard definition DV NTSC. This is the default sequence for Premiere, and has been since dinosaurs roamed the earth. Since it's about 1/16th the …

The easiest way to do this is to use an expression. First you convert audio to keyframes. Then set an expression on your opacity channel. If you drag the pick-whip for the expression to the audio keyf …

I get the feeling you think collapse transformation means something that it doesn't. What Collapse Transforms does is to leave all the transformation properties in the subcomp intact and available t …