Programming In Support Of Video Production

Although I am a programmer, I have a creative side and I've always loved the art of movies. After I became heavily involved in digital video through my participation on video sharing sites, I sought ways to bring my programming skills to bear on online video production. Although there aren't many possibilities to programmatically create videos, I did discover that After Effects Professional has a little known scripting engine. You can use JavaScript to script the After Effects application just like you can use Visual Basic for Applications to automate Microsoft Office applications. I am very comfortable with scripting because web development work involves more scripting than serious programming.

Video Sharing Sites APIs

Several video sharing sites provide developer APIs (application programming interfaces) to retrieve content meta data and information about the most popular videos. I enjoy working with these APIs to develop custom web applications.