Creating Animated Slideshow/Template

[Tanya Webb]

Thanks so much for taking the time to respond, Dave–I appreciate it! Bummed though that the answer is what it is! I’ll just have to do it for her but I have a feeling that once I do it, I’ll be doing more for her which is why I was hoping to create a template. Oh well—thanks again!

[Lee Kabilyo]

Hey Dave,

I know this is an old thread but finding it was somewhat timely for me.

I just completed a slideshow presentation for a local company that was spot lightng the best places to work in Rhode Island. There were about 52 companies, each with a bunch of photos, and a logo. I had our graphics department put 3 photos into a PSD template I gave them that had 2 alternate positions. I then brought the PSD files into AE as composites and animated them.

It was a long, grueling project with a tight deadline. I swore that unless I could come up a way to create a template with motion, where I could just drop in the photos I would never do it again.

the link you gave the original poster pointed to a page that explained about .aet files, but now how to set up something like I am lookng for.

Any suggestions?

[Adam O’hern]

You could do this by creating the slideshow using a folder full of stand-in images with serial names:

project.aep
images/
01.jpg
02.jpg
03.jpg

You can save an Effect preset with an expression that does your transition based on the in-point and out-point of each slide, so then all you have to do is add the numbered images to a comp and line up the timing.

When you’re friend has her photos ready, all he/she has to do is just rename her files with the same serial numbers (you can use Bridge to do this in bulk), and then replace the stand-in files in the images folder, render, and done!