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Is it possible to import text data into AE from a database?
Hi,
I am researching a project where I am going to need to animate a giant list of names from a database. I had been considering macromedia director or flash for this because I didn’t think AE would be able to do it, but after seeing Joe Chao’s recent tutorial about creating text streams, I thought it might be possible. I would much prefer creating an elegent pre-rendered movie with nice effects rather than create something using Flash or Director (which usually seem screen saverish to me.) I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to import text data from an external database into an array for use in a script similar to Joe’s
Thanks,
-Matt
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4 Replies
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You can import ASCII files, but not directly connect to a database or for instance Excel. There are severla threads about this already here in this forum. dio a quick search.
Mylenium
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Do you have a specific thread in mind? I can’t seem to find anything about it searching the forum archives.
Thanks,
-Matt
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Study up on javascript…this might help you accomplish what you want. Here is one link. The way I understand it, AE, via javascript, can read “outside” (text) files, (TCP) sockets, etc., if you are good enough in javascript. This opens up many options if you are a decent programmer (C ?). For example: you could write your own socket server (outside of AE), which could read a database and present data via a TCP socket to AE script. Others on this forum can elaborate.
good luck,
egb
“deja vu all over again” — Yogi Berra
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Threads pertaining to this are circled around “read text with script” or similar keywords. Trust me, there’s enough of them to get you going…
Mylenium
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