[Stu Pond]

Sorry for the tardy response – been snowed under (I’m not complaining!)

Thanks for this Dan, this has proved a really useful script when doing subtitling in AE. Generous with your time and knowlege as ever.

Cheers,

stigWeard

[Stu Pond]

Thanks for the advice. When I tried it all the copied footage lost its links and said ‘original source deleted’, so I guess the original AE file was well and truly shot.

Bummer – I am having to redo the entire thing from scratch (though it did let me copy the text layers, so that’s something).

I wonder if Adobe should include some sort of built in check that warns you when an AE file is corrupt – I worked on that file for over 3 hours, and all the saved versions are knackered.

[Stu Pond]

Thanks for the advice. When I tried it all the copied footage lost its links and said ‘original source deleted’, so I guess the original AE file was well and truly shot.

Bummer – I am having to redo the entire thing from scratch (though it did let me copy the text layers, so that’s something).

I wonder if Adobe should include some sort of built in check that warns you when an AE file is corrupt – I worked on that file for over 3 hours, and all the saved versions are knackered.

[Stu Pond]

That’s superb. I’ll implement the scripts in the comp and see how it goes.

Thanks for your help with this – I used to programme Director at a intermediate level years and years ago so will have a look at these scripts to see if I can work out how they work.

Cheers,

stigWeard

[Stu Pond]

That’s superb. I’ll implement the scripts in the comp and see how it goes.

Thanks for your help with this – I used to programme Director at a intermediate level years and years ago so will have a look at these scripts to see if I can work out how they work.

Cheers,

stigWeard

[Stu Pond]

Thanks M, I had a feeling that might be the case.

Well, TP is out of my price range right now, so off I go to find another solution!

[Stu Pond]

I had thought of that, but I need to render the sections out as separate movies to keep the edit flexible, so I guess it’s the donkey route!

Thanks for your help,

stigWeard

[Stu Pond]

That could be the way – thanks for the suggestions chaps, perhaps one for the AE8 wish list?

[Stu Pond]

I was hoping to embed the alpha in the final output movie.

I thought about splitting the comps up, but that’s going to add to the final timescale, which is a right pain.

Is there no way of flagging an item to be rendered in the alpha channel a bit like the object buffers in Cinema 4D?

[Stu Pond]

I wondered if that was the case – thanks for the help!

stigWeard