automating multi sequence loading

[Barend Onneweer]

I actually place each image sequence in its own folder… Keeps it nice and tidy and it helps with these kinds of situations.

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[Filip Vandueren]

As a dirty work-around:

select the first item, tick on “force alphabetical order” as well “tiff sequence”
You’ll get one long footage and can cut that up into pieces.

Not a pretty soluition and not advisable if there are different aspect-ratios, field-orders, framesizes etc.
But it might do the trick.

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi,

I’ve hopefullty solved your problem.

my first attempt at a jsx file.

This is an adaptation of the smartImport script. The original script just assumed that once it found 10 numbered files in a folder, the entire folder contained 1 still-sequence.
My script compares the basenames (everything at the start of the filename, before the numbers) and works out how many different sequences there are.

get it here:

smartimport_multiSeq.jsx

[Dror Lazar]

it works gr8!!
thanks Filip, thank you very much :o)
can I be rude and ask for a simple modification?
i’ve noticed that it imports the footage with no alpha, I’ve tracked down the function in the scripting that allows to declare alpha modes, but i didn’t knew how or where to plug it (me dont know scripting very good, me be not so smart…)
can you add a function in the script that interprete the alpha as a “premultiplied”?

again, thank you very much, you already made my life a lot easier…. 🙂

Dror

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Dror,

I’ve updated the script (had to work around a bug, but I found a great script by jdnorthup from the adobe userforums)

Note that I set the script to Guess for the Alpha Type, I think that will be the most helpfull, AE usually gets it right, if you don’t start the sequence with an entirely 0 or 100% alpha frame.

+ you can easily transfer interpretation settings from 1 to multiple footage items using the “remember interpretation” and “apply interpretation” commands.

download from the same url:

smartImport_multiSeq.jsx

enjoy,

Filip

[Dror Lazar]

Thanks Filip
it’s working great, it really made the whole importing stage a 1-2 seconds instead of monkey file selecting procedure. 🙂

and the tip about interpretation copy/paste is really helpfull, so thanks again.

and in conclusion
(thanks)*2 :o)

Dror