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Arie Stavchansky
January 9, 2017 at 4:13 am in reply to: Can AE use data merge like PS and InD?

Yes, it definitely can. You can convert your layers into dynamic elements. I would be remiss not to mention Templater from Dataclay. Check out our site when you have some time to learn about all the layer types that are supported.

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January 27, 2016 at 4:29 pm in reply to: Using Emoji font in After Effects

I found this article that allows you to do it, but you have to create it in Illustrator first then export as PDF.

https://ideas.dissolve.com/tips/how-to-get-emojis-in-your-projects

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January 28, 2015 at 6:54 pm in reply to: Update text and image from database

Hi Anna,

Should have answered this much sooner, but you can check out Templater from Dataclay. It essentially makes footage, text, and solid layers into dynamic elements. It does have a feature where you can replicate comps, but that’s not necessary. It works with Google spreadsheets or with local tab-delimited files. Check out its product page on aescripts, and for more details check out its documentation. You can download a free trial.

Best,
Arie

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December 11, 2014 at 12:45 pm in reply to: Any Script or Expression to pull data from a spreadsheet?

Hi Engin,

Glad to hear you are using Templater! Unfortunately, it currently does not “officially” support the renaming of comps. You can use the “Make Comps” feature to create new, unique, comps based on the target (master) comp you select. “Make Comps” will create a new composition based on the target comp and will give that new composition a unique name based on the `id` and the name of the target composition.

In your spreadsheet, set the `id` column to have a unique name that you want in your comp. Then either choose your default target comp from Templater’s main panel, or specify which comp you want Templater to target via your spreadsheet under the `target` column. You can choose whatever term you want for a row’s `id` column, but in your case, you probably want to match it to the value of the text layer column. Then hit “Make Comps” and you should have uniquely name compositions with unique data. They will appear under the [TEMPLATER COMPS] folder in your project panel.

Hope this helps!

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October 23, 2014 at 1:34 pm in reply to: Any Script or Expression to pull data from a spreadsheet?

And just wanted to update this thread with this link for others who are searching the interwebs for a similar solution. Templater for After Effects also supports pulling data in from collaborative spreadsheets like Google Sheets.

https://aescripts.com/templater

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November 20, 2012 at 7:14 pm in reply to: Where can I find list of command line arguments to afterfx with their description ?

I know this is an old post, but you can run afterfx.exe with the -noui flag / switch to run it without loading the GUI.

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April 28, 2011 at 2:44 pm in reply to: Linking source text in text layers to an external .txt file

Dan,

Yes, the -m flag would work if only it didn’t take so much time and memory resources to launch AE. The reason AE takes so long for it load on my render station is that I have a great many effects installed. So just the loading of effects plugs takes a good while. Is there a way to launch AE with the -m flag and supress all of it’s bells and whistles? Kind of like a safe-mode launch state of AE?

Thanks,
Arie

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April 28, 2011 at 2:17 pm in reply to: Linking source text in text layers to an external .txt file

Ben,

Thank you for the advice and tips. Yes, I realize that expressions are very limited, but what irks me about the way scripting is implemented is that the Adobe developers assume a user needs to have After Effects open to operate on an AEP file. This is problematic if you need to affect many AEP files in a multi-threaded fashion for changing the source text of one layer. As far as I can tell, if I run AfterFX.exe with the -s flag, it starts up After Effects and runs the script specified with that flag. What happens when you want to run that script on, let’s say, 10 AEP files without having to wait for one to finish before moving onto the next. You can’t. The way it’s implemented, scripting is executed serially, not in parallel.

Do you know if it is possible to write a command line program (much like aerender.exe) that can examine the AEP file and target a text layer’s properties? I checked out the SDK API, but it seems that the API is mainly for developers who want to write plugins (again, while AE is up and running).

Thanks man, for all your time and advice.

Best,
Arie

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April 27, 2011 at 9:42 pm in reply to: Linking source text in text layers to an external .txt file

Is there an AEP file specification available? Have they opened up the specs?

Also, is there a way with expressions only, to get ahold of the AEP file name instead of the path to the AEP file?

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April 27, 2011 at 9:01 pm in reply to: Linking source text in text layers to an external .txt file

Scripting as in I have to launch AfterFX.exe, run a script, alter the sourceText.text line in my expression, then close AfterFX.exe? The startup time for AE on my Windows7 machine can get way too long, especially if I need to run multiple instances.

So, my next question is if I can run a script on an AEP file without having AE actually open the file?

Thanks!

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