• Adobe After Effects

  Dynamic video creation based on scripts

  Posted by Simen Liberg on April 4, 2008 at 9:12 pm

  Hello,

  I’m trying to find a way to dynamically generate a video based on images in a folder. Each image would be animated based on size in a specified number of frames. There will also be transitions between the images.
  This whole comp should be generated and rendered server-side.

  First of all, is this at all possible?

  I would really appreciate if someone could give me some tips or point me in the right direction with this matter.

  Cheers,
  Simen

  George Leventis replied 15 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Brian Charles

  April 5, 2008 at 12:50 am

  Yeah Dave, I’ve been looking for that one too! Let me know if you find it.

  Simen, what you ask is possible in a tightly scripted fashion. You could write a script that generates a Compostion with most of what you seek. Start by checking out Dan Ebberts’ excellent site motionscript.com.

  I’m not sure whether or how After Effects handles file I/O so you may need to import the files first, but I’ll leave that discussion to the real experts.
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  Simen Liberg

  April 5, 2008 at 8:48 am

  he he, ok fine, my request may be a bit overwhelming, but I was merely seeking council with the people that know more about these things than I do, to see if pursuing this further is at all worth it.

  But sure Dave, I’ll let you know when I have the script all worked out 😉

  cheers,
  Simen
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  Simen Liberg

  April 5, 2008 at 8:52 am

  Thanks for the feedback, I’ll make sure to check out Dan Ebberts’ site.

  Re. the I/O, I was hoping it would be possible for AE to communicate/receive its information through an XML document.
  But, I will dive deeper into the whole matter and hopefully come up with something cool.

  Have a good one,

  cheers,
  Simen
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  George Leventis

  May 26, 2011 at 9:50 am

  Hi Simen,

  Were you able to find an answer to this eventually?
  I am interested in dynamically creating a short video, server-side, as well.
  It should be able to take various elements I have passed into it as variables and render the final output into a video file.
  I’m a web developer and a programmer, so I am familiar with scripting things, I’m just relatively new to the video realm.

  Did you ever find out how you could do this? Or even a step in the right direction of what software could do this would be great.

  Thanks for any input the experts can provide,
  George

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