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EditMonkey
Create complex multi-layered edits in seconds. Works with video, graphics or use the built-in text generator. The After Effects Killer Ape!
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EditMonkey
Create complex multi-layered edits in seconds. Works with video, graphics or use the built-in text generator. The After Effects Killer Ape!
Oh boy - you two have outdone yourselves with EditMonkey, Dan and Orrin! Absolutely amazing how this saves SO much work and time, and yet comes up with results far better than I could have done manually! And I've only just 'opened the box'. You have put so much work into it.
Thank you, from the whole time-poor mogfx world!
BRILLIANT!
Hey remy- could you open a support ticket and send over the project? I’d like to check it out...
But generally, our philosophy is that we would rather spend our time coming up with new products and rework old ones....
I have long videos with subtitles and I want to activate an animation to the duration of the every subtitle time of the video. So my guess is that i can use pt_importSubtitles + a script.
I'm searching for the script that can distribute a precomp or text animation or a imported graphic to ALL marker pairs created by pt_importSubtitles on a single layer.
I want to use all markers pairs stamps (created by pt_importSubtitles) on a one layer as a time placeholders for a precomp or text animation or a imported graphic element.
I watched a video tutorial on Editmonkey but can get it if Editmonkey can really help for my needs.
There is a video that explains how to do exactly to sync a precomp or text animation or a imported graphic element across marker pairs on a layer ?
I suppose that Editmonkey cannot import stamps as markers from a .srt file ?
I am new to AE. Please help.
Discovered something that I'm not seeing mentioned in the vids nor the pdf though. Using CS6 and if editing the text in the Text Panel, hitting Enter doesn't add a new line. Instead, I have to hit Ctrl-Enter. Bug or Design? Not a biggy but wanted to mention that.
I was able to use MarkerRamper to establish markers on a new solid layer and that worked as I wanted. Placed that at the top of a new comp that has 160+ duplicates of my desired trimmed clip that is only 1 frame in duration of a file that's 1 min. long (using just one tick of a clock ticking). I'm trying to create the effect of the spacing between ticks gets shorter & shorter; i.e. the ticks are accelerating. The trimmed clips all have an unnumbered marker at the head.
Is there a way to go about this?
I cover that in the FAQs
I don't have MonkeyTools but will look into precomping. Any plans to have it as a separately available utility, or add to EM?
I've no time crunch on this either fortunetely. It's one of those things that's taken on a life of it's own. Seems so simple to do but in practice it isn't. The effect need to occur over a 2.5 min. duration so not something one wants to do manually.
One question though, what happens to the initial comp? I guess one should get things set up first then duplicate the comp before running EM. Haven't tried out CleanLayers script but can it do it's magic in a later session as in after a project is saved, closed & AE is exited?
I think it’s always a good idea to keep a clean comp, but layercleaner should work no matter if it’s an old saved project or not. It the layers are there it’ll clean em.
I borought up your suggestion to dan and this is his response:
‘Random means it’s determined every time you run the script. The script doesn’t keep track of what the random result was the last time you ran it, so there wouldn’t be an easy way to implement something like that.’
Nice idea (along with a random seed option), but space and tech limitations don’t allow for it...but we love feedback and every once in a while we can work it into an update...
Keep me coming!
Monkey bar text for repeated annotation proposes.
А question about combining monkey-text-bar with EditMonkey. I am a complete newbie to After Effects. As you already may know I would like monkey text (monkey-bar text) to activate when time cursor hits the start marker and I want monkey text (monkey-bar) to end when time cursor hits end marker. The problem is that I will have a project with too many marker pairs (timestamps from .srt file imported with pt_importsubtitles) on a layer. I do not know if It would be difficult to copy only one monkey-bar annotation text and paste it within dozens of marker pairs (formerly subtitles timestamps) on a same single layer.
Do I need a MB script or EM script will be sufficient for my needs ?
PS
Your demo 5 is quite impressive. It wiil be from start to end the making of demo 5 tutorial ?
When we originally started working on it, that was the plan. We quickly found out it wasn’t technically possible, since EM basically had to ignore the master- it couldn’t refer to it and look at how long a timeframe it had to fill, them divide it into the number of pages and adjust the hold and animation times accordingly.
But the easy workaround if you had a specific time you needed to hit, is to create a marker sync layer with the same number of markers as pages (+1 for the end), turn on Marker Sync and retime and then you’ll be good to go.
Btw- You can use the Free Marker Ramper script we bundle with EM to help with that- just enter the same number of frames for the min /max numbers to get evenly spaced markers.
You can also stretch or squeeze the marker layer prior to the build if you really need to be exact.
Hope that helps
Oz
Was rummaging around and umm, regarding the Monkey Tools video indicated here:
https://aescripts.com/typemonkey/
sort of hearing one thing but seeing elsewise with:
I know it's a bit old now, but any way those who recently picked up EditMonkey might actually getting our apposable thumbs on these so far only mythical Monkey Tools?
Vid says it's free, but when going to the my d/l page at AESripts, they're not listed.
Nor is it listed in the Whats the difference between the Monkeys? chart.
Any particular reason; an oversight perhaps? Or are you withholding treats from the newest monkeys as a teaching process perhaps? OK then, it's got me curious if that counts.
But in any case, it's sounding to me that with the newer items, much of MonkeyTools got sucked into the inner workings and would be superfluous as a separate tool. (Please say that's mostly correct).
I'll play around more with the knobs & levers certainly, and watch the videos a few more times and I'm sure it'll make better sense soon. Any links to sample sources of the bit more complicated examples to play with? Couldn't hurt.
Thanx,
M.
Been playing around a bit with Text Panel and noticed some monkeyshines. I was trying to understand the differences between using the check options for Letters, Words and Lines, and the special deliminator characters with the Text Box Keyboard commands for seemingly the same things, and when to use one vs. the other.
I sort of understand & think that's almost what's happening but not quite.
Using the Square Brackets [] is working as advertised. Peachy.
But when using the vert line | and Curly Brackets {}, they seem to be doing what they're suppose to do (I think), but the problem is they're also showing up in my line of text. Ta Da! Cameo!
So here's the question finally, why are [ and ] content with invisibly passing on their special instructions yet { } and | aren't w/o getting in the act?
Was there a memo or secret incantation I missed? Anything else needed to do when clicking those keys?
Not a programmer, but do occasionally look at things a little deeper where & when I can easily and did notice an odd co-incidence. All the misbehaving characters are above decimal 100 whereas the Square Brackets [] are below, namely decimal 93 and 91 respectively. The others use decimal 123, 124, 125. No clue if it's a factor, but is a something to look into I'd think. Two digits vs. three? Some left-over crotchety behavior or appendage of CS6 getting in the way? Perhaps.
For example, if I used this text:
Here at the Acme Anvil Works
we like| to always give you|
the first one for free,
and when you least expect it!What I'm getting though is a single | showing and all the words between the markers just aren't there. See image.
Am I misunderstanding something basic with how to use those markers? The others seem to be working as expected. When and how (in what mode) are the group words markers used then?
Thx