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What is the name in After Effects of a stand-alone, programmable interface?
I want to make a little helper-software tool for my boyfriend. He makes lots of computer graphics frames, and I animate them in After Effects. I have a template set, and I’d like him to be able to drop a folder of images onto some icon or button on his computer, and get a .mov back. I thought this sort of thing used to be called droplets, but a search on “droplets After Effects” yields lots of links to water drops.
Does anybody else do this workflow? What is called? (Then I can read some references about it…)
Thanks!
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4 Replies
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I hope your need can be done by a script in after effects. But its a tough job to do that in a short period of time. Also, you need some basic programming knowledge to get going.
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Hi Amy, sorry I can’t help with “droplets”, however does it have to be a .mov? If not, you could get him to put them as sequentially numbered jpgs (or whatever) into a folder and you could import them as an image sequence.
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Watch folders are similar to how Droplets worked in Compressor. Not sure how it works with images though…
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Thanks all for the ideas and moral support. ???? I think that Watch Folders are similar in concept, but they work with an AE or PP or file that is already a movie. My aim is to make something so he doesn’t have to open AE. I guess I will write something with ffmpeg, instead.
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