Scripts or actions in AE

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Scripts or actions in AE

Posted by Peter Giffen on February 27, 2007 at 5:53 pm

Is there a “actions” function in AE. I need to resize a comp, change the scale and add a blur to 300 – 400 comps. I need to automate this. Any help would be great

Filip Vandueren replied 19 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
6 Replies

Colin Braley
February 27, 2007 at 7:15 pm

I think scripting would be the way to go on this, it shouldn’t be too tough.
~Colin
Peter Giffen
February 27, 2007 at 9:04 pm

Any Idea who I can hire to do this? I know nothing about scripts
Filip Vandueren
February 27, 2007 at 11:43 pm

Some Questions:

Are all the comps inside one project or is it a batch of different project files that need to be opened.
Is the scaling uniform, and the same for all comps ?
Is it a simple comp without 3D cameras, etc. ?
Will adding an adjustment layer with a blur do the trick or does that blur need to be animated ?

The script should not be that hard, I can do it for you in the next few days. How fast do you need it ?

PS: Just donate some money to charity…
Colin Braley
February 28, 2007 at 1:51 am

E-mail me off list at cbraley AT vt.edu if you would like to hire someone to create this script for you.
~Colin
Peter Giffen
February 28, 2007 at 6:03 pm

Thanks for offering to help, really appreciate that

Here is the deal

I have 300 or so quicktimes that are 1152×648, they are flash animation drawn @24fps, so I need to intruduce a pull down in AE to get them to 29.97 and onto Dbeta for broadcast. This is all fine it works well I am just telling you so you understand what I am up to.

I select them and drag them to the comp icon on the bottom of the project window and create individual comps for every quicktime.

Here is when I need a script to take over

1. I need to change them to all to 720×486 D1 comps @24fps

2. I need to change the scale of the quicktimes inside the comps to 56.5 x 75 (the animation is drawn 16:9 widescreen but I am delivering 16:9 anamorphic, tall and skinny)

3. I need to add a 0.2 gaussion blur to every quicktime and a level effect

The rendered qt needs to retain the file name of the original

Can you email me directly peter@editfarm.tv or I can call you

Thanks again this will save me hrs and hrs if it works, I have to repeat this for 26 shows

Filip Vandueren

March 3, 2007 at 6:01 pm

For future reference of other forum-users, here’s the script:

{
	// create a single undo step
	app.beginUndoGroup("resize and grade all comps");
	
	p=app.project;
	
	// travel thorugh all items in the project
	for (i=1; i<=p.numItems;i++) {
		
		var it = p.item(i);
		
		// apply only to Compositions
		if (it.typeName=="Composition") {
			// set W & H of the comp
			it.width=720;
			it.height=486;
			// set the pixel aspect ratio
			it.pixelAspect=1.2; // NSTC Widescreen
			
			var l=it.layer(1);
			// place and scale the 1st layer
			l.position.setValue([360, 243, 0]); // center it
			l.scale.setValue([75, 75, 75]);
			
			// add the effects
			l.effect.addProperty("Gaussian Blur");
			l.effect.addProperty("Color Balance (HLS)");
			l.effect.addProperty("Levels (Individual Controls)");
			
			
			// set the properties;
			l.effect(1)("Blurriness").setValue(0.2);
			
			l.effect(2)("Lightness").setValue(-2);
			l.effect(2)("Saturation").setValue(15);
			
			l.effect(3)("Input White").setValue(250/255); // this actually expects a value from 0 to 1 (255 = 1)  
			l.effect(3)("Gamma").setValue(0.8446);
		}
	}
	
	alert("Have a nice day \r greetings, Filip");
	app.endUndoGroup();
}

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