[Scott Wilson]

Thanks, Chuck.

But the main thing I’m trying to have is the ability to animate the text (name, department) INDEPENDENTLY of the photo, but somehow linked to the photo. Some of the work I’m doing moves each photo around the frame and sometimes partially hides the text on the photo, but if the text were its own layer, it could animate independent of the photo and I could control all the attributes independent of the photo. But still have it linked so I didn’t have to manually copy and paste 1600+ metadata fields into my project.

It just seems like there should be a way to import a JPG, add a text layer, and be able to choose a metadata field to flow into that text layer and edit the font, kerning, color and animate it.

Much like the SLIDESHOW MODULE does in LR, where you click to add a text field and CHOOSE which metadata entry you wish to be displayed and have control over how it is displayed… I would like that ability in AE. Is there no script or Plug-in that will allow this?

-Scott

[Scott Wilson]

I’ve been looking all over and this thread seems to be the best topic for what I’m looking for…

I, too, need to create a slideshow for a corporate event. For the past two years, I have used Apple Photos’ slideshow export with the “Vintage Prints” preset and it has worked very well. Every so often it will combine two photos into one “slide” and it doesn’t really allow you to adjust that… so…

This year I have decided to try and do this in After Effects. But the powers that be need 2 metadata fields to be incorporated so that each photo will show the Person’s Name (description) and their Department (headline). Previously, I exported everything from Lightroom with those fields “burned in” to a new JPG from the Slideshow module and then imported the photos into Apple Photos and did the slideshow from there. But that export renames everything untitled001.jpg, etc, and strips all the metadata out once the file has been exported.

I’ve been looking all over for a solution that will allow me to take those 2 metadata fields and incorporate them into After Effects as EDITABLE / ANIMATABLE text layers (or even just image files) with the photo to create something new and unique, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out a way to do this.

I know I could just copy the metadata into a new text layer… but there are 800+ photos I’m dealing with for this project.

Does anyone know of a piece of software, or a plug-in, or a script that will allow me to do this?

Thank you in advance.

-Scott