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After Effects: XML values to sourceText
Hey Guys,
This has probably been discussed somewhere, but I am having a hard time finding a suitable solution.
I am looking for a way to get XML values into a text layer’s sourceText so that I can easily update several text layers in an animation by just changing the XML and then run a commandline renderer.
Any of you guys have some info on how to do this??
Thanks in advance…
Cheers,
Allard -
1 Reply
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There are a few good tools for doing this sort of work, including CompsFromSpreadsheet [link] and pt_OpenSesame Server [link].
If you can wrap your programmatic output in JavaScript instead of XML, you can read it from an expression with
$.evalFile.You might be able to save your After Effects project file as After Effects XML and process that programmatically for text replacement.
You could also write a script to handle the I/O, parsing, and text replacement.
Walter Soyka
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