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making 2000 different versions of the same animation
Hi,
for an upcoming event I have to make a movie that shows a simple animation that says “Welcome (name)”. It will be shown on a large screen when people enter the venue. Every 5 seconds the name of the person has to change so everyone is mentioned on the “welcome” screen.
I have the 2000 (2k!) names of the attending people on an excell sheet.
Does anyone have a great tip for me to not having to make this 2000 times?Thank you
Jan
AE CS4 and CS5.5
Jan Van den Bossche
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1 Reply
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If you export the spreadsheet as a CSV text file, you an create a script that would read the file and set a keyframe updating a text layer every five seconds. It shouldn’t be a difficult script to write, and there should be plenty of examples out there to get you started. This one on my site might help as a starting point:
https://www.motionscript.com/ae-scripting/create-text-layers-from-file.html
The specifics will depend on your comp details and the format of your file.
Dan
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