How to import footage into After Effects from a script?

[John Cuevas]

I don’t write scripts, but the first place I would check is the expressions forum here and wait for Dan Ebberts to reply.

He also has some scripting stuff on his webpage:
https://www.motionscript.com/

Finally there is a 5 part tutorial on AE tuts you might want to check out:

https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/introduction-to-writing-scripts-for-ae-expressions-day-1/

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

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[Kaspar Gio]

For my own script I imported multiple tiff-sequences with this:


var path = "~insert your filepath here ~";

var io = new ImportOptions(File(path));
if (io.canImportAs(ImportAsType.FOOTAGE));
io.importAs = ImportAsType.FOOTAGE;

// if your footage is an image-sequence:
io.sequence = true;
io.forceAlphabetical = true;

tiffseq = app.project.importFile(io);
tiffseq.name = 'My automatically imported foorage";

theComp = app.project.activeItem; //currently selected composition(example)
theComp.layers.add(tiffseq);

Hope it helps!

Layout/compositor for Animation show.

[Hayden Klabunde]

Hello:
I’ve used your script and was able to import a single image and import an image sequence. Is it possible to import an image sequence using file names within an array?(The files are contained within the same folder and I need to call the files multiple times.)

var myFileArray= new Array(“file.ext”,”file.ext”,”file.ext”);
var path = “~/Desktop/Folder/”(myFileArray);
var io = new ImportOptions(File(path));

if (io.canImportAs(ImportAsType.FOOTAGE));
io.importAs = ImportAsType.FOOTAGE;
io.sequence = true;
io.forceAlphabetical = false;
tiffseq = app.project.importFile(io);
tiffseq.name = “File Name”;

alert(“Image Import Complete”);