• Adobe After Effects

  export position data from AE

  Posted by Ken De cooman on November 6, 2008 at 3:17 pm

  Hello,

  Maybe I should ask this in a different forum?

  I’m working on a project between dance, video and architecture. I’m using Trapcode particular to draw a path/curve that’s following someone in the video. To do this I use a light as an emitter and keyframe it’s position throughout the video (particular draws the curve).

  The result is a curve that AE/Particular draws according to my “Light” position keyframes.
  (Sketch example: https://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=C0xw-k_5GQk )

  Here’s the question: how do I export the data of position of the light each fifth frame, so that I have all those positions in an array as follow example:
  (630,7 , 287,3 , -355,6)
  (634,5 , 256,7 , -356,9)
  (637,8 , 245,4 , -358,7)
  …

  And so on.

  Can I do this using expressions? Or maybe I can use trapcode soundkeys to capture these data?
  (I could do it manually, but it would be such a lot of work… Really.)
  If I have them in an array I can use them in Rhino to go 3D.
  I’m using adobe CS 3 on macbook pro.

  Thanks so much for every lead that I can get…

  Ken

  Ken De cooman replied 17 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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