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Ae SDK Smartfx — Development skill for Claude Code

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After Effects SDK SmartFX development: 32-bit rendering, pre-render phase, efficient partial rendering, and GPU effects.

How to install Ae SDK Smartfx

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/dvschultz-adobe-hut-ae-sdk-smartfx/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/dvschultz-adobe-hut-ae-sdk-smartfx && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dvschultz/adobe-hut/HEAD/.claude/skills/ae-sdk-smartfx.md -o ~/.claude/skills/dvschultz-adobe-hut-ae-sdk-smartfx/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Ae SDK Smartfx does

name: ae-sdk-smartfx description: "After Effects SDK SmartFX development: 32-bit rendering, pre-render phase, efficient partial rendering, and GPU effects."

AE SDK SmartFX

Guide for implementing SmartFX in After Effects plugins for 32-bit and efficient rendering.

What is SmartFX?

SmartFX is an extension of the effect API that provides:

32-bit per channel (float) support - Full HDR/linear color
Efficient partial rendering - Process only needed pixels
**Bidirectional

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