read xml premiere contents from AE
Posted: September 26th, 2012, 2:58 am
I want to have access to the name of 2 MOVs imported to a premiere project from my AE project. I need them to save the new name of my AE extrated files.
The reason I MUST have those names is that they have a number I need to save when I render and rename my final movie on AfterEffects. And I must do this hundreds of time on a week.
I want to think of this as part of a template where all the files are the same except those 2 MOVs imported from premiere.
To retrieve the names of movs inserted into the premiere, I was able to export the project and read the XML tags that interested me.
This works, but I want to go further and try to activate that premiere XML export from After Effects script
For example:
# premiere
//here export lines
# aftereffects
// my script to read XML content already created
(!! Of course, all of this would be avoided if I could retrieve those 2 MOV premiere content numbered names from After Effects directly without having the exported premiere XML ...)
The reason I MUST have those names is that they have a number I need to save when I render and rename my final movie on AfterEffects. And I must do this hundreds of time on a week.
I want to think of this as part of a template where all the files are the same except those 2 MOVs imported from premiere.
To retrieve the names of movs inserted into the premiere, I was able to export the project and read the XML tags that interested me.
This works, but I want to go further and try to activate that premiere XML export from After Effects script
For example:
# premiere
//here export lines
# aftereffects
// my script to read XML content already created
(!! Of course, all of this would be avoided if I could retrieve those 2 MOV premiere content numbered names from After Effects directly without having the exported premiere XML ...)