Does this exsist?

[Steve Roberts]

Maybe a script that does this:

1. render as TGA sequence
2. import those TGAs into AE as separate files
3. load those TGAs into a comp
4. render that comp as a layered PSD?

One for the wizards … not me. I just restate the problem. 🙂

Steve

[Mylenium]

[Salinger] “Is there a codec (or client / conduit or even an AE expression) that will enable the movie rendered in it to be opened as a layered Photoshop document, with the frames as layers??? Sort of like Filmstrip but as layers and not one giant flat document. I’m working on a 30 sec spot, so cut-n-pasting 900 frames is not the solution.

If not, could somebody write one? It’ll be SO useful.

-Salinger-“

No, not really. It goes against how AE’s rendering pipeline works currently and would cause major RAM consumption problems. If you use the “Save Frame as layered PSD” you clearly can see that it’s more or less a workaround/ trickery. Personally I also don’t think it would be super-useful to render entire sequences as PSDs just to massage them in Photoshop, especially not such long ones as you describe. If you are thinking about using layer styles and such – normally just rendering out the layer affected (e.g. your animated text) as an image sequence with Alpha would work just as well.

Mylenium

[Pour Myl

[Salinger]

I hear exactly what ur saying, cuz it makes sense, but what I’m trying to accomplish is much more ambitious than massaging some text layers. I’m working on a whole “mode-flip” from grayscale to bitmap and back to rgb for AE. I tried Robert’s suggestion and it works. It’ll save me a little production time. Nice work fellas, thanks!

-Salinger-

[Steve Roberts]

Who’s Robert?

S. 🙂

[Seth Taylor]

An alternative would be to render an image sequence then use photoshop file>automate>contact sheet to pull all those stills into a index page.

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