Video to ASCII effect

[Olivier Vincent]

It works beautifully well!

It took me a while (as a pure beginner to AE) to get it properly working… But now I managed to play with the ascii definition, color, etc…

This is a very elegant script.

Thanks a lot!!!

[Eric Manevy]

Good evening Patrick
i’m very interesting about your ascii .aep project , i tryed to download it but i think it has been removed from the site.i’m novice with expressions and got the same probleme with syntaxe ( where must i put this code in the text layer ? ) ,Arrgh ! would you be able to join this project again, it woud help me very much in my work !
Thanx a lot for your help
Eric from Paris

[Patrick Deen]

Hello Eric,

First of all, I can’t take credit for the script as it was written by Dan Ebbert but I did upload my source file for everyone to use in their own project. And for you…. I’m uploading it again. I think that all questions that may arise are answered in the previous post. Remember to use a mono-spaced font and have it aligned to the left. If you want to know what everything in the script means you should read the commented version of the script a few posts up…

Good luck with it and enjoy…. and don’t forget to thank Dan 😉

reuploaded ascii file:
https://rapidshare.com/files/164094989/ASCII_EXPERIMENT.aep

[Eric Manevy]

Merci beaucoup, tanx a lot Patrick and Dan for all this informations ,now i can begin my work on ASCII , i will make a good experience with your project patrick, and it’s moving !!
Eric

[Emmanuel Kowandy]

Hello Patrick,

I am a new After Effect user, CS5 version.

For a VJing project, I search a ASCII Art effect.
I found this old post, I tried it but with no success.

Your download source (ASCII_EXPERIMENT.aep) does not exist any more.
Can you post a new link?

Thank you for your help.
Emmanuel from Arras

[Patrick Deen]

Hello Emmanuel,

Sorry to inform you I no longer have the project file. All you really need to know is here in this thread.
You need a comp with a video called target and a textlayer with Dan Ebberts expression in the sourcetext property. (just cop-paste it from the thread)

(Check for my version of the script with comments to get an idea what does what in the script)

Good luck,

Patrick

https://www.localoca.com

[Emmanuel Kowandy]

Thank a lot for your answer so quickly.

I will try again.

Thank you very much.
Emmanuel

[Patrick Deen]

I though I’d check if I could recreate this thing. I can’t seem to get it to work either. This was made with cs3 or cs4. I might have a backup somewhere. I’ll post it if I can find it.

https://www.localoca.com

[Emmanuel Kowandy]

Ok, thank you Patrick.

I have test your method, a composition with a video called target and a textlayer with Dan Ebberts expression in the sourcetext property.

But without result.

Perhaps I forgot something.

Here a link towards a screenshot of my After Effect : https://lalettrek.com/capture.jpg

This is a french version of AE.

Emmanuel

[Dan Ebberts]

It works for me once you add the backslash before the “r” in the line

s += “[insert backslash here]r”;

Dan