var aeToJSON = require('ae-to-json/after-effects');
var ae = require('after-effects');

ae.execute(aeToJSON)
.then(function(json) {
  // do something with the json outout
})
.catch(function(e) {
  throw e;
});

JSON.stringify(aeToJSON(), null, '  ');

// shim in es5 functionality
require('es5-shim');

// you might want to make JSON be a global
JSON = require('JSON2');

var aeToJSON = require('ae-to-json');

// do something with the aeToJSON function

{ 
  // meta data for the project
  project: {

    // items which are used in the Project panel
    // this includes: 
    //  Compositions, 
    //  Footage (images, videos, solids, etc.),
    //  Solids,
    //  etc.
    items: [
      // Composition Type
      {
        typeName: 'Composition',
        // these are the Compositions layers
        layers: [
          {
            // this includes all properties for this layer
            // properties are things like:
            //  Transform, (position, scale, rotation, anchor, etc.)
            //  Material Options,
            //  Effects,
            //  etc.
            properties: {

              // this is what the transform property would look like
              Transform: {

                // Transform's have their own properties
                // This is what X Position on a high level would look like
                "X Position": {

                  // if a property is animatable it will contain keyframes
                  // keyframes will be a two dimension array where each element
                  // on the second dimension is a key frame
                  "keyframes": [
                    // each key frame has a time (in seconds) which is at [0]
                    // a value which is at [1] (values can be scalar values 
                    // or arrays represented by arrays)
                    // 
                    // And an optional ease value. Generally you'd need more
                    // than one keyframe to have ease values.
                    // 
                    // It should be noted if no keyframes were added in After 
                    // Effects for ease of use one keyframe will be output with
                    // the value at time 0
                    [ time, value, ease ]
                  ]
                }
              }
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        typeName: 'Footage'
      },
      {
        typeName: 'Folder',
        items: [
          // this items folder would contain
          // Compositions, Footage, Solids, etc.
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}