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    Batch Time Remap script?

    Posted by Kevin Reiner on March 3, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    Anyone know of a batch timeremapping script. I have about 500 movies for a live event project. There may come a time where the director says make those 40 videos 20% faster, and those 30 videos 15% faster etc.

    So I plan to use AE to do the time remapping. I’m going to make a clean AE project, bring in the files, make a comp for each file, time remapping each file to “X”percent, rendering out at new length with a file name with a identifying suffix added (ie BlueMoon_20slower.mov).

    A script would help tremendously here, but I have been unable to find one and I am scripting illiterate. Or is there a compression tool that would handle this better? I’ve found that AE with pixel motion suits my needs.

    Thanks for any help.

    -Kevin

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    Kevin Reiner replied 14 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Roland R. kahlenberg

    March 5, 2012 at 2:01 am

    Not that I know of but you can link Timewarp’s Speed parameter to an Expression Slider. The tricky part is knowing how to group your clips in the timelines. Otherwise, all the clips will be affected by the speed property in similar fashion.

    HTH
    RoRK

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  • Kevin Reiner

    March 5, 2012 at 2:47 pm

    Thanks Roland,

    I was going down the same path as you suggested. I can control the speed of the clips in their precomps with a slider effect in a separate control comp. The problem then is rendering out each clip at its new length. I still have to manually set that. Not sure if there is a way to automate comp length to match new clip length.

    -Kevin

    Mac Pro 2 x 3 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
    32GB Memory
    Dual-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI Express card
    Dell Display (23″ flat panel)
    ATI Radeon HD 5770
    AJA Kona LSi SD/HD capture card
    Rourke 16 TB
    Flanders 2460

    SOFTWARE
    Mac OS X 10.6.5
    FCP 7
    After Effects CS5
    Boris Continuum
    Sapphire Plug Ins
    All Trapcode Plugs
    Zaxwerks Invig

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