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exporting a ASCII from after effects.
Hi there. I am having a great time exporting .ma files from maya and bring them into aftereffects and applying some magic. However I was hoping that I could also do it the other way around, so that I can bring a camera move from after effects into maya.
Thanks very much in advance for your help.
Sincerely Peter Stenhouse -
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Copy&Paste any keyframe data to a text file, then import this file using MEL or Maya’s generic ASCII import. Dunno if anybody already has done some MEL scripts that fit your exact needs, but it’s absolutely possible.
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I am not having much luck with importing the text file into maya. When I compare the pasted keyframe data with a maya .ma there seem to be alot of flags that I don’t have. What kind of text format does it need to be? I am not that familiar with MEL so am not sure how to begin using the keyframe data this way.
Thanks for the response
Sincerely
Peter -
You can parse any format with MEL, even binary ones. It’s jsut a matter of defining functions. Getting in AE’s data should be pretty straightforward as it is tab-delimited and uses a fixed structure. I don’t have Maya nay longer, so I can’t help you directly, but if you search other, more 3D-affine forums, someone certainly wil lhelp you or you can find some already ready-to-use MEL scripts.
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