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The tool you keep wishing existed takes about an afternoon to make now

Every editor has a list. A panel that renames the selected clips the way the archive wants them. A script that builds the same twelve compositions you build every Monday. A button that exports the four formats your client always asks for.

Together we find the bottlenecks and the speed bumps in your workflow, and then we automate as much as possible to remove them.

Now you can build your own tools without knowing how to code. Over two days you build working plugins for Adobe Premiere and After Effects where the AI writes the code and you decide what the tool should do — and you learn to test the tools, so you are not shipping code you do not understand.

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What we cover
  • Length2 days
  • FormatOn site or online
  • LanguageNorwegian or English
  • CategoryAutomation

After the course you can

Build your own Adobe Premiere and After Effects plugins with AI

  • Build, test and install a working UXP panel for Premiere
  • Build a ScriptUI tool for After Effects that does a job you actually have
  • Write expressions that would normally need a developer
  • Set up reusable skills and an MCP server so the assistant knows your way of working
  • Test a tool before trusting it, fine tune the UI, and hand it to a colleague

What we cover

The program

Setting up an assistant that knows your job

  • Connecting an MCP server
  • Installing and configuring the assistant with the right permissions
  • Giving it knowledge of your workflow, your naming rules and your delivery specs
  • Reusable skills: teaching it something once instead of explaining it every time

Knowing what to build

  • Panel, script or expression — what each one is for
  • Which problems are worth automating and which are not
  • De-mystifying an existing tool to understand how it works

A panel for Premiere

  • What UXP is and how a panel is put together
  • Building a simple demo panel
  • Loading, reloading and debugging it while you work
  • Building a panel your team needs

A tool for After Effects

  • ExtendScript and ScriptUI — the correct stack for After Effects
  • Building a simple script
  • Building a script your team needs

Advanced expressions

  • Getting expressions written, explained and corrected
  • Rigs that would take a day by hand
  • Keeping them readable so the next person can maintain them

Working safely

  • Testing before you trust
  • Backups and version control for tools as well as projects
  • The most common traps

Distribution

  • Packaging a tool so a colleague can install it
  • Packaging a tool to sell it
  • Keeping it working across versions and machines

The honest bit

You will not become a developer in two days, and we do not pretend otherwise either. What you become is someone who can build and verify a small tool for a job you understand better than any developer does.

Who it is for

Editors, motion designers, graphic designers and content producers who want to automate their own workflow in Premiere, After Effects or both. It works for people who have never written a line of code and for people who already script.

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of Premiere or After Effects. No programming experience required. You need a Claude Pro or Max subscription, a machine with the software installed and permission to install developer tools and load panels.

Bring

Bring the list. The one in the back of your head, of things you and your team do by hand every week. That list is the curriculum for day two.

Open courses

Prefer a fixed date for one person?

Also runs as an open course at Qross Kurssenter — classroom in Oslo and live online on the same dates.

Also runs as an open course at Institutt for Journalistikk, at Pressens hus in Oslo, with member pricing for the press organizations.

Questions

About this course

I have never written code. Is this really for me?

Yes, and that is the reason it exists. The assistant writes the code. Your job is to describe the tool precisely and to test whether it does what you asked, and both of those are editing skills rather than programming skills.

What do we end up owning?

Whatever you build during the two days, in your own files, on your own machines. There is no platform to stay subscribed to for the tools to keep working.

Will these tools survive a Premiere update?

Small tools usually do. When one breaks it is normally a single call that changed, and you leave able to find it and fix it — which is the whole point of spending day two on building and testing rather than on more features.

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Want this for your team?

Tell me what goes wrong today and you get a written plan and a price back. Two sentences is enough.

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