How can I create a project and save it with a specified path, in a script? Thanks.

The following doesn’t do the trick:

var my_project_path = '/abc/compositing.aep';
var my_project_file = new File(my_project_path);
my_new_project = app.newProject();
app.project.save([my_project_file]);

Thanks, it works. I now a have a new question.

After the execute command line in the script, I have actions that depend on the output of the .jsxbin file that was executed. When the .jsxbin file is executed, I’m guided via a UI that prompts me to set different parameters and validate actions one after the other. I would like to wait for this…

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It wouldn’t work with keyframes. But this part, animation, I want to do it manually, it will not be automatic.

The thing I want to avoid is having to create from scratch the 80 pins in the right positions every time I work on a new head shot. With the method cited above, I can even rename the pins “once and for all” on the reference layer.

How can I, in a script script2.jsx, call the execution of an existing script, script1.jsx ?

For instance, if I want to run a plug-in.

Thanks.

It looks like there’s an interesting workaround to this: using a precomp and place the pins in their initial positions.

Then, load the footage of the new head shot in a layer below.

Then, set opacity to 20% or so, on the head shot with the pins on it, so that the new head shot appears in transparency.

Move the pins so that they fit on the new head.…

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This looks really interesting. I am going to try and test and will get back to you.

Filip, do you know a way to batch rename puppet pins? I get “Puppet Pin 1”, “Puppet Pin 2″… “Puppet Pin 80” ; and I would like to have “Face Outline 1”, “Face Outline 2″… “Face Outline 10”, “Mouth 1″… “Mouth 10” etc. I could do this directly in the comp, not via scripting. Sth like, select 10 layers, then do sth. If I can regroup them into subfo…

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Hi Filip,

I am willing to try this, but first, what do you mean by: “Your reference image could be dots on the face with a number besides it” : how can I achieve this? How can I actually see the number beside the pin on the reference image?

Thanks.

Anyone has an idea regarding this puppet tool / mesh – removal and repositioning, without applying distorsion while moving? Thanks!

Thanks a lot Filip for the expression you provided.

I had to make some adjustments so that it fits my project, but you pointed the right direction with nearkey / nextkey – yes.

👍

I mean a function like this:

f(x)= a if x is in [t1;t2]

f(x)= b if x is in [t2;t3]

etc.

Hi Filip.

In fact what I’m trying to do is making lip sync looks like stop motion.

For this, I convert audio to keyframes, and then I apply an expression to a new layer so that it transforms the audio keyframe value to a step function.

Then I want to apply freeze frames every time the step value switches to another.

Transforming the step function to a…

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Hi,

How can I freeze frame a video layer according to a slider control that takes values 1 or 0 ?

When the slider takes changes from 1 to 0, then the video freezes. From 0 to 1, freeze again.

The result would look like stop motion : motion occurs every time the slider’s value switches.

Thanks.

Regards.

I’ve tried using an expression, but, 2 things : 1) I can’t control visually the positions of the pins, I have to guess, 2) and that’s the most important: distortion is applied right away.

Thanks.

Hello,

I would like to use the puppet tool on many head shots for a project.

In order to gain time, I’m thinking about doing the following:

– create a template of an AE project

– load a reference head shot in the template

– position 80 pins on the head

Then, every time I want to use the puppet tool for a new project, do the… Read more