• Adobe After Effects

  Problems pasting keyframes from a text files

  Posted by Elad Menashe on September 28, 2008 at 4:04 pm

  Hey there,
  I’m trying to paste keyframes from a text file into AE.
  After pasting the data nothing happens, actually the paste operation is not enabled.
  So I tried the following, copy keyframe data from AE and paste it in a text editor, change the data in the text file and copy it again (the change is done in order to know the newly pasted data is actually from the text file), pasting in AE, I get the old keyframe data.
  I clean the clipboard data (edit>Purge) and copy the text file data and when pasting again nothing happens (edit>Paste is disabled).

  I tried disabling the “Preserve Clipboard Data For Other Applications”, still no luck.

  Any help?
  Elad

  Elad Menashe replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  David Bogie

  September 29, 2008 at 4:28 pm

  I do not know of any text editor that creates keyframes. Keyframes are specific, in this case, to animation parameters and and app like Word does not exist in that universe.

  What application are you using for this “text file” of yours? What do you expect or think is going to happen?

  bogiesan

  This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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  Elad Menashe

  October 1, 2008 at 6:55 am

  I do not create keyframes with a text editor, I change existing (copied from AE) keyframe data and try to paste it back in AE with no luck
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  Elad Menashe

  October 1, 2008 at 8:25 pm

  There are many reasons, getting camera movement, data from external programs, or merely transferring date from older/newer version of AE to another.
  If I’m not mistaken Aharon Rabinowitz had a tutorial about that exact thing.

  That said, I think I might have answered my own question.
  Thanks for the warm up

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