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By: mike cardeiro

mike cardeiro — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:42:01 +0000

this seems to be a bug with excel. There are 2 different delimited file types, tab-delimited and comma-delimited. Now if you were exporting something comma-delimited, you obviously would not want commas from your field to make it into a comma-delimited doc because this would cause the program you are importing into to think the comma is the start of a new field rather than just a comma.

I believe Microsoft in their infinite wisdom is using the same code in both tab-delimited and comma delimited docs and stripping out commas when it is not necessary, and actually wrong to do in a tab-delimited doc.

By: scott tupper

scott tupper — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:59:07 +0000

Never mind, I was able to remove the extra fluff from the text doc!
Too bad Excel can’t export to tab-delimited and keep comma’s for city,state separation.

By: scott tupper

scott tupper — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:28:06 +0000

How do you remove all the extra empty cells when saving to a tab-delimited text file?

By: Mike Cardeiro

Mike Cardeiro — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:52:48 +0000

In speaking with Jeff, the problem he was encountering had to do with creating the tab-delimited text file on a PC and opening it on a mac for use with the script, somewhere in the process the accents in the text doc got mangled.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:56:20 +0000

Hey guys !
This script is really usefull, very good job !
I’m french and I’ve got problems with accent. Is it possible this script work in utf-8 ?

By: david

david — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:53:13 +0000

Request: Have the next version with a column in the SS for a project folder name (source containing assets), and a field for the names of those assets.

The script inserts assets from the source folder into each new comp, based on asset names in the spreadsheet asset field.

Excellent work, very inspiring. THANK YOU!

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:56:19 +0000

Thanks a ton Mike! I’ve really enjoyed using the script… it’s made my workflow a ton quicker!

By: Michael Cardeiro

Michael Cardeiro — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:07:24 +0000

there is now a new version of the script that fixes the issue. The way the script previously worked was that it tried to create a folder named “Renders” in the same directory as the script. This worked for most people but failed for some.

The script no longer creates this folder. Now there is a button on the “field init” window where you can choose the folder to render to. If you dont choose a location, it will put the rendered files wherever the last render went (just as if you added a comp to the render que on your own).

Hopefully this is the last bug!

Mike Cardeiro

By: justin

justin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:36:24 +0000

I just want to add too, I had the same issue as kyle, and Mike got back to me within the hour with a new and perfectly working script. seriously, hours of work in minutes. minutes! this is amazing. thank you so much for your hard work.

By: Kyle Warren

Kyle Warren — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:18:35 +0000

Hey guys I just wanted to let everyone know how great Mike has been to work with. He is dedicated to getting this thing working and I really appreciate his hard work.

By: Mike Cardeiro

Mike Cardeiro — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:35:27 +0000

I have been working with Kyle on solving his problem. He now has a working version of the script. It seems to be a problem with the script creating the “Renders” folder to put your renders in.

I am working on a real patch, in the meantime, if anybody has the same problem, email me mcardeiro@yahoo.com and I can get you the temporary patch that I gave Kyle.

Mike Cardeiro

By: Mike Cardeiro

Mike Cardeiro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:18:03 +0000

Kyle,

try saving a copy see if your results are different. If not, forward me a copy of your project and tab-delimited text doc at mcardeiro@yahoo.com and I’ll see whats up

Mike Cardeiro

By: Kyle Warren

Kyle Warren — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:04:48 +0000

I am having a problem with the script. Once I set up the layers to correspond with the drop down menu items, it asks if I want to do the work in a copy of the project, I say no and it saves. Then the script does nothing. It doesn’t create a render queue and it doesn’t make more comps. Am I doing something wrong? I am working on a intel mac in AE CS4. Any help would be appreciated as I am working on time sensitive material.

By: Mike Cardeiro

Mike Cardeiro — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:14:41 +0000

Hey Nathaniel,

I updated the script so now the select composition window should be easier to manage if you have a lot of comps.

You can also bypass this window altogether if you put all the comps to be used in a folder called ‘TEMPLATES’ (all caps), then the script will use these comps and not ask you.

Mike Cardeiro