• Adobe After Effects

  Scripting Question – Randomize/Shuffle FootageItems

  Posted by Steve Pugh on September 22, 2011 at 5:53 pm

  Hi all,

  I’ve got a comp project with several dozen footage items laid out in a grid. I would dearly love to be able to shuffle them around easily and quickly, to make a large number of different videowall type grids.

  Not being the greatest scripter, I’m reading the user’s selected footage into an array of FootageItems first – call it selectedFootage[]. My thinking was to copy the filepaths into a new string array and shuffle them, then loop the original arrey beginning to end, calling ReplaceWithSequence on each footageItem to replace it with it counterpart in the newly shuffled array.

  I can’t seem to get the full pathnames out of the original footageItems into the new array in a way that will work with ReplaceWithSequence.

  Is there some cleaner, more elegant way to accomplish this that I am missing? I can post my code if you want a good laugh.

  Cheers,
  Steve

  Steve Pugh replied 14 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Ben G unguren

  September 22, 2011 at 7:07 pm

  Steve
  You should post this in the AE Expressions forum. I’m not a strong enough scripter to figure this out, either, though I’d like to hear what others have to say on it.

  Ben Unguren
  Motion Graphics & Editing
  http://www.mostlydocumentary.com

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  Steve Pugh

  September 22, 2011 at 7:25 pm

  Ah, good idea (forum newb here….) Will repost, thanks!

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