Automated multilanguage clips via XML Import?!?

[Dan Ebberts]

You could do something like that (read an XML file and do text replacement) with a script. How it would work exactly would be dependent on the way you have your project set up, including comp and layer names, animated properties, etc., so I’m guessing you’d have to write it rather than find an existing one.

I don’t believe Premiere has scripting, but I haven’t used it lately.

Dan

[Karim Daire]

Thanks for your answer… I was fearing it would include a lot of scripting which is not quite my cup of tea and would be too much hassle.

My basic problem is that corrections and different language version take to long for a project. Could there be a way of working with expressions to make life easier there?

I was thinking of setting up a dummy/guide composition with textlayers including all of my textscript.

Would there be a way of linking my animated textobjects source all over the project to the textfields in the single dummy composition so all text corrections could be done in this single composition instead of scrubbing through thousands of precomps and layers on the whole length of my clip for every language version??

Or to pose a basic questions… how do you handle complex projects which require a lot of text changes for different languages after the animation job is done in a manner that minimizes the time spent on replacing the texts??

I hope I was able to explain my problem. Thanks for any hints in advance,

Karim

-Karim-
Freelance Cutter, Compositor and Animator from Hamburg/Germany