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Script for exporting marker frames for Storyboard creation.
Is there anyway to write a script that will export marked frames as tiffs?
I have a client that wants a very simple storyboard sent to them before I get really deep into the effect work. So I was going to make an adjustment layer, add markers to the frames that I want captured, and then export them as tifs. I was then going to run an automator scipt that will send all of the tifs to Photoshop and layout a simple storyboard that will be sent as a .pdf.
I am going to be doing this very often, and the exporting of the tiffs is really a slow process. Is there anyway to automate this?
Thanks,
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That should be pretty straight forward. You’d just set up a loop that goes through the comp looking for layer markes. Whenever it finds one, it would put the comp in the render queue and adjust timeSpanStart to the time of the marker and timeSpanDuration to the length of one frame.
You’d have to have previously defined an Output Module Template for .tif output because the script will need to know its name.
I left out a lot of details, but this is the type of thing that scripting is really good for.
Dan
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Thanks Dan,
I’m not a javascript programmer. I understand exactly what you’re saying, I just don’t have the technical chops to write the script. How would I go about getting it done?-Reins
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It’s probably going to take somebody a few hours to write and test it. You might be able to find somebody that would take it on for free, or you could hire a freelancer. Shouldn’t cost too much.
Dan
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Then there’s the Useful Assistants plugin …
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I’d be interested in a freelancer. Although I probably can’t afford much. How do I find one and what would the cost be on a job like that? Do you have any recommendations Dan?
Here is exactly what I need.
With a comp selected, I would like to run a script that:
1. Goes through the comp and loads each frame that has a marker into the render queue.
2. Using render settings set to “Best Settings” and an output module preset called “Storyboard Tiffs”, AE renders out a .tif file to a chosen directory.
3. Photoshop would be opened and all would be sized on a 8.5 x 11 document in a landscape layout (on its side)
4. They would be laid out with 4 frames per page.
5. Export as an emailable .pdfIf all of this could be automated, that would be swell.
Thanks,
Reins -
Feel free to contact me directly if you’d like. If you click my head at the top of the page, there’s a link to my site, which has a contact link down the page a ways.
Dan
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