Can’t get demo to work. Is this possible?

Will there also be a new release soon?

Been working thru the script and doing various tests. Looking very good.
I’m trying to do some automation of formatting for spot encoding for distribution.

to make it work, there are some things you have that require user input that I’d like to automate simply by including it as additional columns of info in the spread sheet.

Is this possible or do you offer a code editable version for sale so I can use your script as a basis for further in house development?

Just tried to undock the compFromSpreadsheet script.. and it crashes After Effects..

it’s not the end of the world.. just thought you would like to know

ALex

Glad you like the script, and it is fidly and confusing to set up, but wayyyy better than doing it by hand!

Thanks for your help.. you were right.. I had spaces at the end of a lot of the lines.

This is quite hard to spot in excel.. I went back into my project and replaced every space with an underscore..

then went into textedit and did find and replace on spaces..

and it worked a treat..

Wonderful script, bit fidly to set up.. but well well worth it..

thanks again

ALex

I’ve got a problem… the script cannot find my layers..

I run compsfromSpreadsheet, choose my template comp, pick my .txt file. It lines up perfectly with all my Columns.

I hit return. I immediatley get.. Layer Name Error.. Pick a layer line 2 has an error. there is no item in the project named Indians.mov

However I can scoot down the list and pick out Indians.mov..

This continues through the spreadsheet…

Any ideas ??? and help..

I’ve got 78 comps to make up…

cheers

Alex

Great script! I am using it at a cable network that just purchased a site license. I have a project (designed by someone else) with a lot of precomposing and my hands are tied on changing its precomp hierarchy. I am able to work around the precomp issue by running the script multiple times, but I have to make a workflow that’s easy to understand for other artists, and doing manual recursion for every precomp layer is, unfortunately, too complicated to make into a sitewide workflow.

I’ve made a project where each composition has its precomps renamed with a # in front, so that the precomps can be replaced with new comps created by the script. My spreadsheet contains one column for each precomp in the hierarchy, and each row has a unique name in those columns, so that when I replace a text layer, for example, the script can also generate a unique copy of the entire precomp tree going back up to the master comp. This works if I run the script once for each precomp in the tree, changing the “New composition name” field each time to the name of the next precomp up in the hierarchy.
To make this easier on other artists, I modified my spreadsheet to be able to work on all of the precomps at once. When I test it, however, I find that the script will make the compositions that I need, but then not be able to find them in the project when attempting to update the next precomp in the hierarchy. So, if I have a tree that goes Master->Precomp1->Precomp2->Text, my spreadsheet will have the script create a comp called Text_001 using Text as a template, then go on to create Precomp2_001 using Precomp2 as a template and replacing the layer named #Text with Text_001. When I run it this way instead of running the script multiple times, the script is unable to find the Text_001 comp that it just created and will stop while making Precomp2_001. If I delete the failed Precomp2_001 and run the script again, it will create Precomp2_001 correctly and then fail while making Precomp1_001.
To me, this suggests that I could set up my project and spreadsheet to work around the nesting problem in just one run if the script were able to find the compositions it creates in the project during the course of a single run. Would it be possible to have the script either refresh its list of project items after processing each row, or to append the compositions it creates to such a list?

I’m new to u people. I came to know about this plugin 2 days before only. It’s very very useful to me to do my work easily. one small problem i’m facing in this. I have created the “Import Object” soild layer with “290 * 290″ Pixel . If i want my selected image with any pixel to fit in it means, What i have to do?

I’m expecting your reply to do a needful.

Thanks a lot, Great Plugin Mike

Cheers,

-Daya

2nd: Is there any limitation concerning the number of characters in the excel file ?

Thanks alot great job!!

Nikitas

Do you know of any Vimeo channels or links where I could see what others have done creative wise with this plugin or the multiple comps idea in general..

Great job mike,
Cheers

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).