• Adobe After Effects

  database scripting

  Posted by Cmixon on September 12, 2005 at 6:42 pm

  I’m being given is an after effects project that has 2 logos moving over a pre-comped element. The logos are interchangable and they live in seperate folders (they don’t have to). I want to be able to put the game matchups in a database of some sort and have the logos change from the database. Then I need to render out the animation. Can scripting help with this project? I have almost 2,000 variations to render out.

  Dylan Reeve replied 20 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  September 13, 2005 at 12:05 am

  I think you’d have to convert your database to some kind of text file and the parse it with the script, but it all sounds doable.

  Dan
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  Dylan Reeve

  September 13, 2005 at 1:04 am

  Another option would be to make some sort of intermediate layer that would interface between the database and the AE script.

  As AE has a socket function, I am planning to do something a bit like this with an HTTP request to a PHP script that will return text data formatted to generate results.

  You could also probably make some sort of application that would generate text files for your script to read in.

  I don’t believe there is a way to directly interface with a database (although I imagine it might be possible on some level) or to execute a program and capture the output.

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