[Wilkie Branson]

hurrah! it works! roll back to cc2104 use ProEXR export with layer module – then into Photoshop with the ProEXR plugin – layers are there with the correct names from AE ready to run the action through a script. ! thank god for that, just saved a year of manually pressing “save frame as” thanks everyone

[Wilkie Branson]

Thanks all, thats a good idea, i’ll try rolling back to cc2104 and using EXR’s with layers, as far as i can run the work flow through in my head it should work!

using export frame to Photoshop works perfectly.. except for the fact that it requires you to export each frame manually which is obviously not a sensible option when you have 10s of thousands of frames to export. as mentioned above it really frustrating as the functionality ids there just not the automation which you’d expect given the relationship between the two programs.

[Wilkie Branson]

Its an action which converts the background and a painted brush layer into a sketch. the action has about 400 stages so even if AE could achieve the same steps i think it might be pretty difficult to write it and achieve similar results…. unfortunately.