Created a Scripting to generate a Composition inside After Effects

[Dan Ebberts]

>Would this be possible using After Effect scripting?

Yes, I’ve done it. It’s a bit of work though.

>Is the After Effects composition file text based as are the Shake, Nuke and FF5 setup files??

Hmmm… I don’t know. I don’t think so though.

Dan

[Midicon]

Hi i think that both of you need to elaborate on what your talking about… I would really like to know what you can do with editing the script (this maybe a stupid ques)?? how you do it (i am all about hard work ;o)?? and what language is the script (HTML, this may also be a stupid question)??? i know very little about scripting and would totally like to learn more how can i learn more do ya know…

thanks for your time

M

[Dan Ebberts]

Francisco was asking if it’s possible to write an After Effects script that will read in a text file listing the paths to the individual images in a photomosaic, load the images into AE, and assemble the composite image.

It is definitely possible, and is actually a pretty straight-forward application of scripting.

AE’s scripting environment is based on JavaScript but has a ton of custom objects that your script must interact with.

While I wouldn’t want to discourage anyone from trying to write such a script, you’ll probably have a hard time unless you’re fairly familiar with JavaScript and the AE-specific extensions.

Dan

[Colin Braley]

[Francisco Lima] “Is the After Effects composition file text based as are the Shake, Nuke and FF5 setup files??”

Nope, After Effects Project files (.aep) are not text based. Some apps like Maya can save files as human readbale (.ma) text or in non-human readbale (.mb) text for faster loading.
~Colin

[Colin Braley]

[Francisco Lima] “Is the After Effects composition file text based as are the Shake, Nuke and FF5 setup files??”

Nope, After Effects Project files (.aep) are not text based. Some apps like Maya can save files as human readbale (.ma) text or in non-human readbale (.mb) text for faster loading.
~Colin

[Francisco Lima]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the info.

There’s a nice website that has an introduction to Scripting in AE.

http://www.motionscript.com

It has some nice examples that are helping us write the script for the Photomosaic project.

Rgds,

Francisco