Justin Taylor | Hyper Brew, Bolt, Open Source and Adobe Plugin Development

About this episode

Jack Vaughan interviews Justin Taylor about plugin development, automation tools, and the evolution of the Adobe plugin landscape.

Today I'm speaking with Justin Taylor, editor, motion designer, and founder of [Hyper Brew](https://hyperbrew.co), a company that builds plugins and automation tools for creative teams. If you listened to my conversation with Adam Plouff, you'll know that Adam builds many of his tools on top of something Justin created called the [Bolt frameworks](https://github.com/hyperbrew). Adam makes the tools. Justin makes the tools the tool makers use. This episode goes deeper into the development side than most. We talk about what "pipeline" actually means at studios like Buck, how the Adobe plugin landscape evolved from expressions to CEP to UXP, and how Justin turned open source into a business model. If that's not your world, the conversation opens with his journey from churning out product videos to automating the boring parts, and closes with where video tooling is headed (AI, Figma acquiring Weavy, and whether we'll all be writing our own tools soon). ## Topics Discussed - From shooting product videos to automating the edits in Premiere Pro - Working at Verasity CoLab and sharing tools with a mid-size video team - Getting ProIO on aescripts and meeting Lloyd Alvarez - Meeting Zack…

People in this episode

Guest: Justin Taylor

Topics covered

• Adobe plugin development
• open source business model
• pipeline development
• automation tools
• video tooling
• creative teams

Keywords

• Hyper Brew
• Bolt frameworks
• AI
• Figma
• Weavy

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Bolt, Premiere Pro, Cinema 4D, Figma, Nuke, Maya, Houdini, Hyper Brew, ExtendScript, CEP

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