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  • Need to automate marking layer and exporting still image

    Posted by Jerrold Le tourneau on July 30, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    I am have a number of videos to process. I am trying to figure out a script that will use the comp layer duration to calculate adding a marker at 1/30 increments. Then exporting a still image from at each marker.

    I have 200 videos that I need to do this too. I can hand mash the markers and export but that swill be extremely tedious.
    Any clues on how to do this?

    Jerry

    Todd Kopriva replied 12 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Dan Ebberts

    July 30, 2014 at 4:38 pm

    You can definitely do all that with scripting, but I’m not aware of an existing script that does what you need. It could be a good first scripting project, but the learning curve may not make it worthwhile in this case.

    Dan

  • Todd Kopriva

    July 30, 2014 at 6:15 pm

    This script does the second half of what you want:
    https://aescripts.com/render-frame-at-markers/

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