Tools for
video editors

UXP is Adobe's modern plugin runtime and it runs a completely different JavaScript environment from what you're used to. No AudioContext. No Worker. No readFileSync. This is the production reference built while shipping BeatMarker — every quirk confirmed in production.

Every tutorial on CEP says the same install paths. In After Effects 2026, those paths do nothing — no error, no log, just silence. Claude Code found the real path by reverse-engineering Adobe's own bundled extension. This is the guide that didn't exist.

Switching between stereo and mono happens dozens of times a day for a video editor who checks audio mixes. Windows buries the toggle three clicks deep in Accessibility Settings. One keyboard shortcut was the fix — and that meant building a native C# utility from scratch, for the first time.