Comments on: Duplicate Frame Remover

By: Dave Navarro

Dave Navarro — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:16:35 +0000

Is it possible to modify this to just mark all duplicate frames without setting hold key frames?

I am looking for a simple way to create seamless loops by finding the two outer most matching frames.

By: sunqi

sunqi — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:21:22 +0000

veryg ood

By: david

david — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:43:25 +0000

Yes, the problem was my cs3 was set on german. In the english version it works perfectly. Thank you very much.

By the way… The easyest way to run AE in English is to open the LANGUAGES Subfolder and Select the English Version. Basically, this does nothing more than putting the -L EN Addition to the Shortcut, but its already prepared and ready to go.

By: lloyd

lloyd — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:04:45 +0000

Hi David,
Are you running AE in english? This script only runs properly in english.

By: david

david — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:00:43 +0000

every time i run the script it says the script doesn’t work in line 48 because null is not an object. im using ae cs3. is there maybe another version of the script that i could try out?

big thanks,
david

By: pol day

pol day — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:52:55 +0000

gracias

By: lloyd

lloyd — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:30:33 +0000

Tip: If you are trying to use this script with a layer that has a bulit-in alpha channel and the script is removing all the frames, try precomping the layer with a solid bg (ie. to remove the transparency) and it should work as expected.

By: Michael Lazar

Michael Lazar — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:20:37 +0000

Just what I was looking for. Tip: comp that the clip is placed in should be no longer than the duration of the clip you are cleaning up.

By: glennser

glennser — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:03:04 +0000

Wow, I don’t believe this, I just had a job where I’d rendered 23.98 comps to 29.97 duplicating frames instead of putting pulldown in it (part of the project was built at 29.97 native and I didn’t want to deliver a mix of pulldown and progressive, it was a big job with at least 4 animators working to different specs as usual), the client didn’t want to pay for a pal conversion and then when they couldn’t do it themselves wanted us to do it for free (bastards!!)
Anyway I was laying awake thinking about how to do it last night and reckoned that if I couldn’t get rid of the duplicate frames by nesting correctly I’d try to re-engineer your Magnum script to help me spot the duplicates.
Nesting worked but I decided to give writing a script a go anyway , I come here you’ve already built the script for me!!
Damn!! How will I ever learn if you keep doing the work for me you bastard!!
Seriously, thanks a million, I know I’ll need to use this someday, you’re the man!!
glennser

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:16:54 +0000

Very useful script. It helped me with a roto job that had a lot of duplicate frames and made my life much easier

Thanks Lloyd!

Alex