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Automating repetitive tasks (Cross post from After Effects)
Not sure which forum is more appropriate so apology in advance for the cross-post from the AfterEffects forum.
Hi all,
I have a super tedious workflow for one of my projects and I am hoping y’all can help me find a solution.
Using Premiere, I edit a weekly 1/2 hour talk show. 24 minutes of talking heads with still images used to illustrate the subject matter. We are up to 70 images per show.
My current workflow is that I have a nested sequence with two transparent video files, one on top of the other. The bottom video files has; scale-to-frame-size, scale 156%, and Gaussian blur @125%
The top layer has; scale-to-frame-size, Scale 90%-95% (velocity .5%) and drop shadow.
Altogether, this nest creates a slow push into the still image with a blurred out background that fills the frame (I option+drag a still image onto the transparent video layers). I do this one by one x 70 and it takes about an hour.
I am at the point where if I have to go through another week of this process Imma lose my mind and hopefully this a process that can be automated.
Ideally, I’d like a script to run that looks at my images folder and creates a series of sequences for each image. similar to the description above.
I looked at photoshop as a way to automate and it seems doable but clunky as video is not Photoshop’s strength.
I haven’t seen any options for automation in Premiere and am n.
And AfterAffects seems like it has the best toolkit but feels v. intimidating with lots of tutorials referring to Python and SDK’s.
Anyhow, before I jump on Amazon to buy a copy of Pythons for Dummies I thought I’d lean on the community for support. Any suggestions to automate this process would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Octavio
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2 Replies
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There’s a lot of variables to your question, but what it sounds like is it can be done in Ps. I’d create an automated action (google how to do if you’re not aware) which resizes the images, adds any effects (gaussian blur, etc) and exports a single completed image. Then run the automation on the folder(s). Import the effected images and you should be good to go.
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Hey thanks Tim,
I almost got photoshop to work but the motion interpolation between frames was too rough.
An AE script ended being the right call.
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