Hello,
I need to do the following:
The final animation is a presentation of around 600 logos, each one should fly in from one side, stay visible for 2 seconds, and then fly out while the next appears.
It seems to me a good way to create one composition with the animation for the first logo. Now I need a script which looks in a specified folder, loads all of the footage (600 files, jpg or similar), copies the reference composition as often as needed, inserts a logo in each new composition and finally starts each composition after the other in one final comp.
Is that possible?!
Regards
Christoph
Animation with over 600 layers...?
Moderator: byronnash
Here is my modified version of the LogoSequencer (you could search this forum on that term).
From your description, all you would have to do is modify the Auto-Animate part of this code to move from left to right instead of fade in and out.
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//Import Section By Byron Nash 10/2004
//Revised 12/03/2007 Atom
/*
This script imports a folder of images and sequences them in a predestined comp.
It also sets ALL comps in the project to be the length of the new sequenced comp.
This is useful if you are versioning a bunch of images into the same graphic bed.
It also also animates the fade in and fade out for each layer.
Instructions:
1. Make sure you have a project with a comp at the very top. Put a "1" in front of the name if need be to keep it the first object in the list.
2. Run script
3. Choose a folder of files when prompted
Just to clarify, this script runs in passes, so it will import a series of image, then create layers from that import.
Because this script operates on an existing comp, it does no know the name of the comp, so it references the first object in the project window as the comp.
Consider this, you create default comp called "Comp 1" then you import a series of images froma folder. The folder contains an image called "blueprint.jpg".
Now blueprint.jpg is above Comp 1 in the project list and the script will try to operate on the JPG as if it were a comp.
This is what causes the error if you do not put a 1 in front of the comp name. You might want to put a zero.
If an image comes in with a 0 instead of a 1 as it's first character you could also error out.
It's not perfect, but it took me a while to figure this out so I thought I'd mention why it will error out and how to avoid this.
Limitation/ Flaws:
I already mentioned the naming of the comp flaw in this script.
I have hard coded the comp size and height to 720x480.
The duration of each imported image is given 5 seconds, you can adjust this by changing the variable, below.
The frame rate is calculated at 29.97 fps so if you are using another rate please change this value as well.
The import will also fail if the images in the folder have numbers prefixing their filename.
*/
{
// create undo group
app.beginUndoGroup("Import and Sequence");
//Ask the user for a folder whose contents are to be imported
var targetFolder = folderGetDialog("Import Items from Folder..."); //returns a folder or null
if (targetFolder)
{
// if no project open, create a new project to toss the files into. [23839]
if (!app.project) {app.newProject();}
function processFile (theFile)
{
try {
var importOptions = new ImportOptions (theFile); //create a variable containing ImportOptions
importSafeWithError (importOptions);
} catch( error ) {
// eat errors.
}
}
function testForSequence (files)
{
var searcher = new RegExp ("[0-9]+");
var movieFileSearcher = new RegExp ("(mov|avi|mpg)$", "i");
var parseResults = new Array;
//test that we have a sequence, stop parsing after 10 files
for (x = 0; (x < files.length) & x < 10; x++)
{
var movieFileResult = movieFileSearcher.exec(files[x].name);
if (! movieFileResult)
{
var currentResult = searcher.exec(files[x].name);
//regular expressions return null if no match was found
//otherwise they return an array with the following information:
//array[0] = the matched string
//array[1..n] = the matched capturing parentheses
if (currentResult) { //we have a match - the string contains numbers
//the match of those numbers is stored in the array[1]
//take that number and save it into parseResults
parseResults[parseResults.length] = currentResult[0];
}
else {
parseResults[parseResults.length] = null;
}
}
else {
parseResults[parseResults.length] = null;
}
}
//if all the files we just went through have a number in their file names,
//assume they are part of a sequence & return the first file
var result = null;
for (i = 0; i < parseResults.length; ++i) {
if (parseResults[i]) {
if (! result) {
result = files[i];
}
} else {
//case in which a file name did not contain a number
result = null;
break;
}
}
return result;
}
function importSafeWithError (importOptions)
{
try {
app.project.importFile (importOptions);
} catch (error) {
alert(error.toString() + importOptions.file.fsName);
}
}
function processFolder(theFolder)
{
var files = theFolder.getFiles(); //Get an array of files in the target folder
//test whether theFolder contains a sequence
var sequenceStartFile = testForSequence(files);
//if it does contain a sequence, import the sequence
if (sequenceStartFile) {
try {
var importOptions = new ImportOptions (sequenceStartFile); //create a variable containing ImportOptions
importOptions.sequence = true;
//importOptions.forceAlphabetical = true; //un-comment this if you want to force alpha order by default
importSafeWithError (importOptions);
} catch (error) {
}
}
//otherwise, import the files and recurse
//Go through the array and set each element to singleFile, then run the following
for (index in files)
{
if (files[index] instanceof File) {
if (! sequenceStartFile) { //if file is already part of a sequence, don't import it individually
processFile (files[index]); //calls the processFile function above
}
}
if (files[index] instanceof Folder) {
processFolder (files[index]); // recursion
}
}
}
processFolder(targetFolder);
}
//Script begins here.
var logoSel = app.project.selection; //set selected import items to an array
var logoComp = app.project.item(1); //select the logo comp
var compW = 720; // comp width
var compH = 480; // comp height
var perImageDuration= 30; //Frames divided by frame rate equals seconds.
logoComp.duration = perImageDuration/29.97 //set comp length to 1 second
//loop through and add layers to comp
for (i=0; i < logoSel.length; i++)
{
//Add to logo comp
if(logoSel[i] instanceof FootageItem)
{ //test to be sure it's not a comp or folder
var lcoll = logoComp.layers; //variable for collection of layer objects in logoComp
lcoll.add(logoSel[i]); //add layer
//alert (logoSel[i].name);
}
}
//At this point, all imported items are in the project window.
//Now we must add them to the comp.
var curIn = 0; //initialize in point variable
var i = 1; //collection items start at 1.
//Loop through layers
do
{
//Add footage layer.
var curLayer = lcoll[i];
curLayer.startTime = curIn; //set in point
var curOut = curLayer.outPoint; //set out
//Auto animate the fade in and out for this layer.
myOpacity= curLayer.property("opacity");
myOpacity.setValueAtTime(curIn,0);
myOpacity.setValueAtTime(curIn + 0.25,100);
myOpacity.setValueAtTime(curOut - 0.25,100); //Effectively creates a hold frame, can cause problems on interlace footage.
myOpacity.setValueAtTime(curOut,0);
curIn = curOut; //new in point equals old out point.
//alert (curLayer.name);
i++;
}while(i<=lcoll.length);
// Set Final Comp to correct length.
logoComp.duration = (i-1) * logoComp.duration; //set comp end to reflect the new length.
compDur = logoComp.duration; //set variable for all comps
var stuff = app.project.items; //get collection of project items
for (i=1; i <= stuff.length; i++)
{//loop through project looking for our original comp item that was selected before we ran this script.
if(stuff[i] instanceof CompItem)
{//check for comp
stuff[i].duration = compDur; //set comp length
}
}
alert("Finished Importing and Sequencing of Images. Be sure to save the project as a new name.")
app.endUndoGroup();
}
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