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Lower Third in AE and working with CasparCG
Hello @ all,
looked through this forum, and on Google, I don‘t find the right answer.
We‘re working in the event- and TV-Business, and now I set up a CasparCG system for lower thirds, openers, bumpers, etc. Now, when working with lower thirds in live situations, we need to edit them in real-time. We‘re creating the thirds in AE, and exporting via BodyMovin to HTML5.
Is there a way, to define dynamic fields like „name“ „f0“ and „freetext“ „f1“ so we can fill them in the CasparCG client? Does anyone has experiences?Thank you very much, and best regards from Switzerland, Thomas
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for reply. CasparCG is no editing application. CasparCG Server is a Windows and Linux software used to play out professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs as a layerbased real-time compositor, coming from Swedisch Television SVT. Playing graphics is done in HTML5 or Flash (OK, this is more and more dying ????). So, if working in HTML5, you render in AE via BodyMovin to JSON.
My question is, if I can define variables in AE, not static text. You can do it to Premiere, but that looks proprietary, and not for live-live.
In the client of Caspar you can fill HTMLvariables, either in JS or JSON. That‘s the thing, I‘m figuring out.Cheers, Thomas
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As I understand it, all the JSON stuff is handled in the BodyMovin script, so that is where you’d need to look I think — I’d suggest contacting the BodyMovin authors.
That said, You can create any variables you want inside expressions or scripts. I’m not familiar enough with BodyMovin script to suggest how to get those into a JSON output.
Andrew Somers
VFX & Title Supervisor
https://www.GeneralTitles.com
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