[James Dean]

Hi Dave,

I agree that the end result of running the effect is a bitmap, but 3D Stroke is parametrically controlled, so I’m looking for a way to change the parameters to give me the same image at a higher res.

I pushed on with my original thinking and I think I’ve got it cracked…

Should anyone need to do this or something similar then the code below should do it (WARNING – SCRAPPY CODE WITH NO ERROR CHECKING! – SAVE YOUR PROJECT FIRST!). Just run this from the ExtendScript Toolkit.


scaleFactor = 5; // this is what we're going to scale the comp by
targetLayer = "stroke 2" //put the name of the layer containing 3D Stroke

app.beginUndoGroup("rescale 3D Stroke comp");
c = app.project.activeItem;
originalEffect = c.layer(targetLayer).effect("3D Stroke");
bend = originalEffect("Bend").value;
pos = originalEffect("XY Position").value;
d = c.duplicate();
d.name = c.name + "(x"+scaleFactor+")"
d.width = d.width*scaleFactor;
d.height = d.height*scaleFactor;
l = d.layer(targetLayer);

var strokeEffect = l.effect("3D Stroke");
strokeEffect("Bend").setValue(bend*scaleFactor);
strokeEffect("XY Position").setValue(pos/scaleFactor);
d.activeCamera.zoom.setValue(d.activeCamera.zoom.value*scaleFactor);

tempLayer = d.layers.addSolid([0,0,0],"scriptSolid", d.width, d.height, 1.0);
l.replaceSource(tempLayer.source,false);
tempLayer.remove()
l.anchorPoint.setValue([0.0,0.0]);
l.position.setValue([0,0]);
myShape = l.mask(1).maskShape.value;
var verts = [];
for(e in myShape.vertices) {
var oldPoint = myShape.vertices[e];
var newPoint = [(oldPoint[0]-(d.width/2))/scaleFactor +(d.width/2),(oldPoint[1]-(d.height/2))/scaleFactor + (d.height/2)];
verts.push(newPoint);
}
myShape.vertices = verts;
l.mask(1).maskPath.setValue(myShape);
app.endUndoGroup();


[James Dean]

Wow…

I’ve just exported the project as an .AEPX xml file. Having a poke around, there appeared to be a lot of pprf nodes within the node which didn’t appear to relate to the project structure I was expecting. So I deleted them.

I re-imported into AE. It came in successfully. I saved it out and my original massive file is down to 8mb and it opens instantly.

Thanks, Walter, for a nudge in the right direction.

Now I’m going to make my car go faster by randomly removing bits of the engine…

J.

[James Dean]

Hi Walter,

Thanks for the reply.

I like your thinking. We probably did have some in at some stage but not now, it’s just the text. Do you think the Warp stabilizer data might be orphaned in the project somewhere.

We’ve got lots of 6k footage comped into 10k comps, so the warp data is likely to be large!

I wonder if I can kill it by hacking an AEPX XML export?

Cheers,

James.