• Adobe After Effects

  Script to automate rendering of multiple identical compositions

  Posted by Graham Quince on June 18, 2009 at 12:08 pm

  Hi guys,

  Hoping there is an easy way to do this. I regularly have to digitise old video tapes and chop them up into 20 minutes segments and then render them out to sit on our intranet. Right now, I use Scenalyser to timer record the tapes, Premiere to edit the sequences then I import the project into AE, set the comp sizes to 640×480, shrink the PAL DV videos to fit and add them to the render queue.

  Is there any way to automate the manual composition size setting and video scaling (it’s always 87%) and render queue addition?

  Graham

  http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films

  Graham Quince replied 16 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Andy George

  June 18, 2009 at 4:12 pm

  Hi Graham,

  Not exactly what your looking for but maybe helpful.

  https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_RenderLayers

  This script renders each layer of a comp individually.
  So you could just create 1 composition, drop your video in,
  sequence layers and it should do the rest-

  -Andy
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  Jan Sherlink

  June 18, 2009 at 11:07 pm

  You can create an Output Module with Stretch or Crop settings,
  just keep your Pal Composition and let the Output Module scale down to 640×480

  cya,

  Jan
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  Graham Quince

  June 22, 2009 at 8:56 am

  Thanks for all the help guys.

  Jan, the trouble with using the compression stretch settings is the output includes the nasty black and white blocks recorded from the original picture. Resizing in AE we don’t scale down to see the overscan area.

  Dave, I’ve looked before for a batch program and ended up using AE. I wish PPro would just do batch.

  Andy, that’s a great site, very useful to have all the scripts together,

  thanks again everyone

  Graham

  http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films

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