Your best bet would be doing multiple runs, so you break your 2500 line spreadheet into 5 separate 500 line spreadsheets and you run them one at a time (hopefully 500 comps won’t choke it).

Certainly if you are running cs5 or higher you will get better results. Experiment on a copy of your project and see where the choke point is.

Even running 5 separate passes will be better than doing it all by hand!

The only thing changing will be the images (20 per vsn)

Will this script hold up under such a massive amount?

Thanks

Oliver

Thanks,

-Ron

Is there a way to automatically apply the lenght of the audio or a lenght entered in the spreadsheet (in seconds or mm:ss) to the duration of the composition ?

I have the same composition to process many times but each one will have a different audio and the total diuration of the comp must be the one of the audio.

anybody can help on that ?
best regards,
thank u !
stephane

I think the ball is in Adobe’s court on this one (unless there is some functionality I am not aware of).

Thank you

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To replace layers with items already imported into your project:

Create a solid in your template comp and put a # before the name i.e. #layer

In your spreadsheet have a column named layer that lists the name of items in your project to replace that layer.

So if a line of your spreadsheet had dude.jpg in the layer column, the script will replace the solid named #layer with the dude.jpg from your project.
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To import a file and have the import replace a layer:

create a solid in your template comp and put a > before the name i.e. >import

In your spreadsheet have a column named import that lists the path of items to be imported and replace that layer.

To get the proper path click on the “Get File Path” button from the compsFromSpreadsheet window and navigate to the file you want to import. A window will popup with the properly formatted path to that file so you can copy it and paste it into your spreadsheet.
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This is an amazing script. I have been trying the demo out since this morning and it does some amazing things.
However, the task at hand requires handling footage in varying lengths, and applying it to the same composition. Since composition length is pre-determined, some comps are too long and some are too short.
Is there any way to workaround this issue? I have several thousands clips to process and this tool would be a real life saver.

thanks!
– Guy

There is an explanation as to why and a workaround a few comments above, click here
http://aescripts.com/compsfromspreadsheet/comment-page-1/#comment-76173

I am updating 10-15 Comps which are part of a “MASTER COMP”

Every time i update the comps (text and graphic) they get a diferent comp name
and unfortunatelly DO NOT update the “MASTER COMP”.

Maybe I am missing something… or this is not my case.

THANKS