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A word doc to after effects
Client asks me to take a word document with a list of hundreds of his clients
And type each line in after effects
Is there a way to shorten this operation?
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2 Replies
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If you convert it to a plain text file, you could read it with a script. Reading the file is pretty easy, but what you do with the text is the tricky part.
Dan
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if you just need it as a list (ie, you don’t actually need separate text layers to manipulate in ae), then you could create pdf of the doc and import the pdf in as a layer to manipulate in ae…. obviously any formatting to the text would need to be done prior to making the pdf…
harry frank did a tutorial on getting text from an external file into ae (for lowerthirds) here:
https://www.graymachine.com/2009/03/expressions-and-external-documents/
he also links to a followup to it.
there’s also the copy/paste option from word to ae. it just comes down to what you need.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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