Please. Script needed.

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Please. Script needed.

Posted by Aleksandrs Valters on January 12, 2010 at 11:13 am

The situation…
I have file that i was using before to load text and position into AE with expressions. But situation is changed and now i need Script (i can’t do this yet 🙁 )

data.txt (contains information about data for layers in 3 compositions)
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comp1_text_a=”1″
comp1_text_b=”2″
comp1_position_a=[11,22];
comp1_opacity_a=[75];
comp1_sub_composition_text=”Title”

comp2_text_a=”1″
comp2_text_b=”2″
comp2_position_a=[11,22];
comp2_opacity_a=[75];
comp2_sub_composition_text=”Title”

comp3_text_a=”1″
comp3_text_b=”2″
comp3_position_a=[11,22];
comp3_opacity_a=[75];
comp3_sub_composition_text=”Title”
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in AE i have TEMPLATE composition.
Now i need script that will:
1 – load data file
2 – count number of needed compositions (3 in this situation)
3 – take Template composition
4 – duplicate Template composition with new name and change source text in text layers and position or opacity data on another layers with new data from file
5 – p.s. very important to duplicate compositions inside as new, ‘cose they contain data that’s also must be changed from data.txt
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Full sample of script or partly help will be very useful, ‘cose i’m trying to do this 2 weeks =(

p.s. Script needed for everyday use, some times data is up to 30 compositions.

Lloyd Alvarez replied 16 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
4 Replies

Sergei Sokolov
January 12, 2010 at 11:29 am

Shouldn’t this go to “Lower-Pay Jobs” forum? ; ) Can do the job.

Kind regards,
Serge!Sokolov
Aleksandrs Valters
January 12, 2010 at 12:07 pm

Yep.. why not 🙂 But who knows…
Maybe some good man will give some help.
At example what can help..
How looks script (part of script) to change sourceText in Text Layer to text from script or from external file?
Sergei Sokolov
January 12, 2010 at 12:13 pm

Check out Adobe’s ExtendScript Toolkit + samples in /Applications/Adobe After Effects CS3/Scripts
Also make sure you have AFx Scripting Guide handy:
https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/pdfs/aftereffectscs3_scripting_guide.pdf

Kind regards,
Serge!Sokolov
Lloyd Alvarez
January 28, 2010 at 9:53 pm

Hi Aleksandrs

We have a script that does exactly that called CompsFromSpreadsheet. Go to aescripts.com and search for it.

-Lloyd

https://aescripts.com

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