KBar support for Keystone 2

What is KBar?

Kbar is a widely used extension for After Effects that allows to create customizable toolbars. More informations on: https://aescripts.com/kbar/

Example of KBar with Keystone 2 buttons

Set up Keystone 2 features in KBar

1. Go in KBar settings (⚙️ icon in KBar)

2. Click Add button

3. Click Run JSX/JSXBIN File

4. Click BROWSE and select main.jsx file in Keystone installation folder:

   WINDOWS

   C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\com.aescripts.keystone2\panel\jsx\main.jsx

   MAC

   /Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions/com.aescripts.keystone2/panel/jsx/main.jsx

5. Indicate the Script function (see the table below)

6. Add the corresponding description (optional)

7. Add the corresponding icon (optional)

Example of a button creation in KBar

Icons & Script functions

Ref.	Icon	Description
00		Icon of Keystone 2

Keyframes functions

Ref.	Icons	Script functions	Description (optional)
01		keyAlignFirstKeyCTI	Align on the first keyframe
02		keyAlignLastKeyCTI	Align on the last keyframe
03		keyAlignInPoint	Align on the layer in point
04		keyAlignOutPoint	Align on the layer out point
05		keyStaggerDescending	Create descending stagger
06		keyStaggerAscending	Create ascending stagger
07		keyStaggerRandom	Create random stagger
08		keyDistribute	Set interval
09		keyStretchFirstKey	Stretch from the first keyframe
10		keyStretchLastKey	Stretch from the last keyframe
11		keyStretchCTI	Stretch from the CTI
12		keyShift10FramesLeft	Shift 10 frames to the left
13		keyShift1FrameLeft	Shift 1 frame to the left
14		keyShift1FrameRight	Shift 1 frame to the right
15		keyShift10FramesRight	Shift 10 frames to the right
16		keyDuplicate	Duplicate on the CTI
17		keyDuplicateFlip	Duplicate and flip on the CTI
18		keyFlip	Flip the keyframes
19		keyCopy	Copy
20		keyPaste	Paste
21		keyAlignNearestFrame	Align on the nearest frame
22		keyConstantSpeed	Set constant Speed
23		keyOverlapCleaning	Delete all keys between selected keys

Layers functions

Ref.	Icons	Script functions	Description (optional)
01		layerAlignInPointCTI	Align layers in point on the CTI
02		layerAlignOutPointCTI	Align layers out point on the CTI
03		layerAlignInPoint	Align layers on the earliest in point
04		layerAlignOutPoint	Align layers on the latest out point
05		layerStaggerDescending	Create descending stagger
06		layerStaggerAscending	Create ascending stagger
07		layerStaggerRandom	Create random stagger
08		layerStaggerPreserve	Preserve existing stagger
09		layerStretchInPoint	Stretch from layer in point
10		layerStretchOutPoint	Stretch from layer out point
11		layerStretchCTI	Stretch from the CTI
12		layerShift10FramesLeft	Shift 10 frames to the left
13		layerShift1FrameLeft	Shift 1 frame to the left
14		layerShift1FrameRight	Shift 1 frame to the right
15		layerShift10FramesRight	Shift 1 frame to the right
16		layerTrimFirstKey	Trim layer on the first keyframe
17		layerTrimLastKey	Trim layer on the last keyframe
18		layerTrimAllKeys	Trim layer on the first and last keyframes

The reference numbers are useful to quickly find the icons in the folder.

Download .kbar file

Save yourself the trouble of manually writing all the functions with this ready-to-use .kbar file! It contains all KBar-compatible Keystone 2 functions with associated icons.

The .kbar file contains all functions and icons, but you need to specify the correct path to the jsx file specific to your computer for each function.

6KB

Keystone 2.kbar

Suffixes (optional)

It is possible to add a suffix to the end of the script function in order to force Keystone 2 to group keyframes by layer, by property or all together.

• -LAYER groups keyframes by layer. Correspond to the default behaviour of a simple click.

• -PROPERTY groups keyframes by property. Correspond to the ALT (⌥) + click behaviour.

• -GLOBAL groups keyframes all together. Correspond to the SHIFT + click behaviour.

Suffix Example

alignFirstKey-PROPERTY will force the alignement of all the selected keyframes of each property on the CTI without having to use the combination ALT (⌥) + click.

Suffix example

• Suffixes are optional and without any suffix the hotkeys ALT (⌥) and SHIFT apply like in the extension.

• Suffixes are not available for all features, such as Constant speed, Overlap cleaning or Align to nearest frame.

Download Keystone 2 icons

• All the icons are available in 2 colors: - gray (classic) and blue for the keyframes features - gray (classic) and green for the layers features

• The icons are in svg format, so feel free to modify them if you wish.

48KB

Keystone-2-icons-for-KBar.zip

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