continuously update text from a excel file
Posted: October 5th, 2005, 8:13 am
Hi All,
I am doing a training video for bicycle racing. We have POV footage of a professional racer in an actual race. The rider was also hooked up to a computer that monitored many statistics throughout the race. The output from this computer is contained in an extremely large excel file.
The director wants these stats to be on the bottom of the screen during the entire 40 minute race. The stats are things like: Heart Rate, MPH, Percieved Effort, etc. so they are constantly changing throughout entire 40 minutes. To do this with keyframes would be insane, we would be talking about tens of thousands of keyframes.
So what I'm looking for is a way to apply an expression to a text layer to retrieve it's value from a excel file once a second.
Is this even remotely possible?
Thank you,
-sunjuro
I am doing a training video for bicycle racing. We have POV footage of a professional racer in an actual race. The rider was also hooked up to a computer that monitored many statistics throughout the race. The output from this computer is contained in an extremely large excel file.
The director wants these stats to be on the bottom of the screen during the entire 40 minute race. The stats are things like: Heart Rate, MPH, Percieved Effort, etc. so they are constantly changing throughout entire 40 minutes. To do this with keyframes would be insane, we would be talking about tens of thousands of keyframes.
So what I'm looking for is a way to apply an expression to a text layer to retrieve it's value from a excel file once a second.
Is this even remotely possible?
Thank you,
-sunjuro