This script is superseded by one at Blender.org and is therefore deprecated. This is a version of https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/BAC/browse/master/io_export_after_effects.py updated to work with Blender 2.9. I fixed this before discovering the official and more robust update. This repo remains for those asking the same questions as I did.
NB. Not currently an add-on and will need to be run from script page of Blender.
- Select the objects and camera etc that you wish to export, and go to File>Export>Adobe After Effect (.jsx)
- Save the file.
- Open After Effects (Version > CS3)
- File>Scripts>Run Script File and select your file. It will ask you to name the comp. Any name will work
- Next, after it is done, go into the Project panel and open up your comp. Nulls objects and a camera should be there, matching the motion of the ones in blender.
Several changes to the Blender API occurred between these versions. This script contains simple fixes in order to run in newer versions of Blender.
Blender has adjusted its mathutils module, replacing the asterisk * with the at symbol @, aka the PEP 465 binary operator, for multiplying matrices with vectors.
384 matrix = Matrix.Translation(cam.matrix_basis.copy() @ track.bundle)
More information here: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/129473/typeerror-element-wise-multiplication-not-supported-between-matrix-and-vect/129474
Named parameters must be passed with argument name.
737 box.label(text='Animation:')
More information here: https://b3d.interplanety.org/en/porting-add-on-from-blender-2-7-to-blender-2-8/
Blender now longer uses INFO_MT to refer to top level menu but instead now uses TOPBAR_MT
765 bpy.types.TOPBAR_MT_file_export.remove(menu_func)