[Felix Klee]

[Dave LaRonde] “I’d say a visit to the COW’s AE Expressioins forum would be very worthwhile”

Thanks. I’ve seen these forums before. However, I posted here since probably After Effects scripting is what is needed, and not expressions. But as both are based on the same technology: Would it be possible to move this thread to the other forum?

[Felix Klee]

[Walter Soyka] “imported 3D image sequence”
Thanks for the suggestion. However, there is nothing imported. Everything is done 100% in After Effects CS4.

[Felix Klee]

Thanks, Dave, for your suggestions. My comments:

[Dave LaRonde] “It would probably be more time-consuming to create a script than it would to simply animate the cubes’ position porperty via keyframes.”

No, quite the opposite: There is some complex mathematical system that dictates how blocks may be positioned. And we may have to create hundreds of different configurations.

So some form of scripting is unavoidable.

“If your collaborator supplies you with Image sequences to use as a background”

He provided me with an AEP-file with a 3D scene, all generated with native After Effects CS4 functionality. I already figured out how to work with that.

“you should know that AE defaults to interpreting the frame rate as 30 fps”

Frame rate is no issue for us at all. In the end we will output every block configuration as a single JPEG image.