Can AE read from a database (or a simple textfile) ?

[Dan Ebberts]

It would be fairly easy with a script. You can’t do it with just an expression though.

Dan

[Dapaus]

Ok, thanks! And how could such a script look like?

[Dan Ebberts]

In general, it would involve prompting the user to navigate to your text file, setting up a loop to read each line of the file until the end-of-file is reached, converting the text to floating point and creating a new position keyframe at the appropriate time (which, from your description, sounds like it would be the same as the line number).

It’s fairly straight-forward if you have some scripting exprerience. Unfortunately the learning curve for scripting is quite a bit steeper than it is for expressions.

Dan