aescripts + aeplugins

Kirill Skorodelov · June 2018

Brilliant product! Thanks a million for that. Couple of questions - can font/font size be linked to JSON doc? Definitely text layer scale be added to JSON but can font selection be driven the same way? Render queue parameters? Can external scripts be stored or triggered via JSON doc?

Thanks a lot again,

Kirill

mamoworld Möhl · June 2018

Kirill Skorodelov said:

Brilliant product! Thanks a million for that. Couple of questions - can font/font size be linked to JSON doc? Definitely text layer scale be added to JSON but can font selection be driven the same way? Render queue parameters? Can external scripts be stored or triggered via JSON doc?
Thanks a lot again,
Kirill

You can only link a property to JSON, if you can apply an expression to the property. Hence, you cannot link fonts, font size or render queue parameters. Also, you cannot trigger external scripts in the JSON to simulate that. You can store JavaScript functions in JSON-like files, as I show in this tutorial https://mamoworld.com/tutorials/after-effects-expressions-nerd-tip-1-building-your-own-expressions-library-1-minute

You can access and execute this code inside JSON files inside expressions, but you cannot use this to trigger general Ae scripting code that should modify your project.

Ze'ev Gilad · July 2018

Trying this out ... it keeps giving me "Error at line 497 of ~/Downloads/mamoworldjson_1_0_000/mamoworldJSON.jsx: After Effects error: File “mamoworld.json” is not a valid file type for import."

mamoworld Möhl · July 2018

Which version of After Effects are you using? Note that the JSON features are only supported by CC2017 and newer.

Ze'ev Gilad said:

Trying this out ... it keeps giving me "Error at line 497 of ~/Downloads/mamoworldjson_1_0_000/mamoworldJSON.jsx: After Effects error: File “mamoworld.json” is not a valid file type for import."

Ze'ev Gilad · July 2018

Ze'ev Gilad said:

Trying this out ... it keeps giving me "Error at line 497 of ~/Downloads/mamoworldjson_1_0_000/mamoworldJSON.jsx: After Effects error: File “mamoworld.json” is not a valid file type for import."

Seems to work in 2018 but not 2017 ... is that the issue? (Cuz "compatibility" tab above says "CC 2018, CC 2017")

mamoworld Möhl · July 2018

Oh, yes, you are right. I just did some tests and in deed 2017 does not yet support json data import. I updated the compatibility information for mamoworldJSON now.

Ze'ev Gilad said:

Seems to work in 2018 but not 2017 ... is that the issue? (Cuz "compatibility" tab above says "CC 2018, CC 2017")

bob bob · September 2018

So im following along the tutorial and I keep getting "Error at line 4 in property 'Source Text' of layer 1 ('2000') in comp '04-Info-Box'. Unterminated string constant." whenever I try to connect Source text to json. So I'm assuming that theres a quotation missing but I haven't touched the code. Thank You!

mamoworld Möhl · September 2018

Hi Bob,

does this error only happen after you changed the json file? If so, does the json file data consist of valid json data (does it validate here: https://jsonlint.com/ ?).

Does this only happen if the text contains special symbols (like Japanese or Arabic text)?

If you still have the issue, could you open a support ticket here

https://aescripts.com/contact/

and attach your project file and describe which texts you tried to connect?

Cheers,

Mathias

Farhan Chin · January 2019

The script actually works but everytime after I save the .json this happens.

mamoworld Möhl · January 2019

Hi Farhan,

do you have any special unicode characters in your json? Does it help if you edit the file with a different text editor? I noticed some strange behavior when doing it with ExtendScript Toolkit, sometimes.

Also sounds like you should report this as a bug to Adobe:

https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

Cheers,

Mathias

Matthew Phelan · January 2019

Hi there ... Bit of FYI

I wanted to created a template that had the text layers named "record 01" "record 02" etc. Running the script created a Json file ok but straight away AE throws up a parsing error/ invalid JSON file and crashes. Running CS2018 btw.

The script produces the line as follows.

{
"generatedBy": "mamoworldJSON",
"Temp Record": {
"01": "Record 01",
"Line01": "Record 01\r"
}
}

The line01 part produces a name as Record 01\r even though the text laxyer is only labeled Record 01, Record 02 etc

the /r causes the crash. removing it manually allows AE to import. However as the error occurs during the script the expression part is lost and nothing is written.

mamoworld Möhl · January 2019

Hi Matthew,

thank you for reporting this. I just did a few tests and can confirm that I see the same error on CC2018, but on CC2019 it is working fine. So it seems that Adobe has fixed this json parsing issue already. Also in CC2018 the error occurs ONLY if the text of the text layer contains a newline at the end of the text.

If you need to work with CC2018 I recommend that you make sure that the text you enter does not end with a newline. If you enter "return" at the end of the text of a Ae layer, the newline is not visibile - i.e. the bounding box of the text does not show the new line you started unless you start adding any nonempty characters to this line - but it is still there and hence will end up in the json.

Cheers,

Mathias

Matthew Phelan said:

Hi there ... Bit of FYI

I wanted to created a template that had the text layers named "record 01" "record 02" etc. Running the script created a Json file ok but straight away AE throws up a parsing error/ invalid JSON file and crashes. Running CS2018 btw.

The script produces the line as follows.

{
"generatedBy": "mamoworldJSON",
"Temp Record": {
"01": "Record 01",
"Line01": "Record 01\r"
}
}

The line01 part produces a name as Record 01\r even though the text laxyer is only labeled Record 01, Record 02 etc

the /r causes the crash. removing it manually allows AE to import. However as the error occurs during the script the expression part is lost and nothing is written.

Matthew Phelan · January 2019

mamoworld Möhl said:

Also in CC2018 the error occurs ONLY if the text of the text layer contains a newline at the end of the text.

If you need to work with CC2018 I recommend that you make sure that the text you enter does not end with a newline. If you enter "return" at the end of the text of a Ae layer, the newline is not visibile - i.e. the bounding box of the text does not show the new line you started unless you start adding any nonempty characters to this line - but it is still there and hence will end up in the json.

Cheers,
Mathias

Can't upgrade to 2019 ATM as Work's custom program and plugins is only supported on Capitan OS, 2019 wont install on that. So stuck with 2018 for now. Thanks for the info about the return line and to avoid it with 2018.

tim holly · March 2019

Hi

i'm pretty new at this. Should the mamoworld json file be imported into the project before would open the panel. I get a message "please select at least one

property"

I think the 1st tutorial is missing a step on how to setup the comp to make the panel work.

mamoworld Möhl · March 2019

Hi Tim,

there is no need to create or import the mamoworldjson file - the script does all of that for you.

Your error sounds like you didn't select the property that you want to connect to the json document. If you want to connect a text, please make sure to do not only select the text layer, but select the actual source text property of the text layer (watch closely at 1:24 in the first tutorial).

Cheers,

Mathias

tim holly said:

Hi

i'm pretty new at this. Should the mamoworld json file be imported into the project before would open the panel. I get a message "please select at least one
property"

I think the 1st tutorial is missing a step on how to setup the comp to make the panel work.

jin wang · March 2019

不能支持中文件吗，使用汉字都是乱码，不知道为什么。

mamoworld Möhl · March 2019

Hi Jin,

Are you using an old version of mamoworldJSON? I just did a quick test and using the symbols from your comment worked without issues for me.

Make sure to use the most recent version mamoworldJSON 1.0.002 which fixes some issues with special symbols like Chinese characters.

Cheers,

Mathias

jin wang said:

不能支持中文件吗，使用汉字都是乱码，不知道为什么。

mamoworld Möhl · April 2019

Hi Mickael,

this sounds like you have a typo in your JSON document. Like you forgot a , or a : or you have forgotten to put a text in quotes.

You can check the JSON file with a validator like this one:

https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/

It will show you, where exactly in your JSON file the typo is.

Mickael Frigout said:

Bonjour,

Je rencontre actuellement un problème après avoir bien paramétrer mon projet et testé qu'il fonctionne after me renvoie "mamoworld.json" n'est pas un fichier json valide. S'il contient une synthaxe JavaScript, changer son extension en .jsx, puis réimportez ou remplacez le métrage.

Ai-je fais une erreur ?

Merci

Mickael Frigout · April 2019

mamoworld Möhl said:

Hi Mickael,
this sounds like you have a typo in your JSON document. Like you forgot a , or a : or you have forgotten to put a text in quotes.

You can check the JSON file with a validator like this one:
https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/
It will show you, where exactly in your JSON file the typo is.

Mickael Frigout said:

Bonjour,

Je rencontre actuellement un problème après avoir bien paramétrer mon projet et testé qu'il fonctionne after me renvoie "mamoworld.json" n'est pas un fichier json valide. S'il contient une synthaxe JavaScript, changer son extension en .jsx, puis réimportez ou remplacez le métrage.

Ai-je fais une erreur ?

Merci

Super ! merci beaucoup

melany Ville · May 2019

Hello,

This is a very good script!

I wonder if there's a way to use those letters « à; é; ê; è; ç; ù; ï; ë; commonly use in french? The actual font support those when typing.

For now, it shows like: ~A©

Best regards

mamoworld Möhl · May 2019

Hi Melany,

did you make sure to use the most recent version 1.0.002 of mamoworldJSON? It fixes some issues with such special symbols that previous versions had.

melany Ville said:

Hello,
This is a very good script!

I wonder if there's a way to use those letters « à; é; ê; è; ç; ù; ï; ë; commonly use in french? The actual font support those when typing.
For now, it shows like: ~A©

Best regards

Mickael Frigout · May 2019

Bonjour,

Je rencontre actuellement un problème, lors de l'export il ne prend pas en compte mon changement de texte du fichier Json ? Manque t'il quelque chose de mon côté ?

Merci,

mamoworld Möhl · May 2019

Hi Mickael,

this sounds like a bug in the After Effects JSON feature. Does it help if you right click on the json file in your Ae project panel and choose "Reload Footage"? It might also help to purche the memory and disk cache.

Mickael Frigout said:

Bonjour,

Je rencontre actuellement un problème, lors de l'export il ne prend pas en compte mon changement de texte du fichier Json ? Manque t'il quelque chose de mon côté ?

Merci,

Mickael Frigout · May 2019

mamoworld Möhl said:

Hi Mickael,

this sounds like a bug in the After Effects JSON feature. Does it help if you right click on the json file in your Ae project panel and choose "Reload Footage"? It might also help to purche the memory and disk cache.

Mickael Frigout said:

Bonjour,

Je rencontre actuellement un problème, lors de l'export il ne prend pas en compte mon changement de texte du fichier Json ? Manque t'il quelque chose de mon côté ?

Merci,

Non je me retrouve toujours avec le même problème, j'ai vidé le cache ainsi que recharger le métrage

Sur mon visualiseur le texte est quand même le bon, seulement au rendu qu'il ne change pas

mamoworld Möhl · May 2019

That's really strange! Please contact Adobe support, since if it shows up in the viewer but not in rendered files, it is definitely an issue at Adobe's end. Are you using the most recent version of Ae? I think there have been some JSON related bug fixes during the last updates.

Mickael Frigout said:

Non je me retrouve toujours avec le même problème, j'ai vidé le cache ainsi que recharger le métrage

Sur mon visualiseur le texte est quand même le bon, seulement au rendu qu'il ne change pas

Nicolas Telmaut · July 2019

I've got the exact same problem. My JSON is valid! Mickael - did you find a solution?

PS: I am rendering in CC19 using "Add to Media Encoder" if this matters.

Mickael Frigout said:

mamoworld Möhl said:

Hi Mickael,

this sounds like a bug in the After Effects JSON feature. Does it help if you right click on the json file in your Ae project panel and choose "Reload Footage"? It might also help to purche the memory and disk cache.

Mickael Frigout said:

Bonjour,

Je rencontre actuellement un problème, lors de l'export il ne prend pas en compte mon changement de texte du fichier Json ? Manque t'il quelque chose de mon côté ?

Merci,

Non je me retrouve toujours avec le même problème, j'ai vidé le cache ainsi que recharger le métrage

Sur mon visualiseur le texte est quand même le bon, seulement au rendu qu'il ne change pas

mamoworld Möhl · July 2019

Hi Nicolas,

in this tread, I just found a hint that Media Encoder works better, if the json file is also a layer in the comp and not just a footage item in the project:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2480417

Does it work better, if you drag the mamoworld.json file from the project panel into your timeline? When the json file is a layer in your comp, you get a warning each time the structure of the file changes (but not if only the content changes) and maybe Media Encoder deals more properly with it.

Nicolas Telmaut said:

I've got the exact same problem. My JSON is valid! Mickael - did you find a solution?

PS: I am rendering in CC19 using "Add to Media Encoder" if this matters.

Mickael Frigout said:

mamoworld Möhl said:

Hi Mickael,

this sounds like a bug in the After Effects JSON feature. Does it help if you right click on the json file in your Ae project panel and choose "Reload Footage"? It might also help to purche the memory and disk cache.

Mickael Frigout said:

Bonjour,

Je rencontre actuellement un problème, lors de l'export il ne prend pas en compte mon changement de texte du fichier Json ? Manque t'il quelque chose de mon côté ?

Merci,

Non je me retrouve toujours avec le même problème, j'ai vidé le cache ainsi que recharger le métrage

Sur mon visualiseur le texte est quand même le bon, seulement au rendu qu'il ne change pas

matteo raggi · July 2019

Hi. Is here a way to change also the images and not only the text?

Nicolas Telmaut · July 2019

Hi Möhl - unfortunately, no.
I included Mamoworld.json in there, at the top of all layers, then at the bottom - no luck.

I really wonder what's wrong. Same as the person commenting: it works if I only render with AE (but really not my workflow unfortunately).
Are you guys able to make it work within AME?

mamoworld Möhl said:

Hi Nicolas,
in this tread, I just found a hint that Media Encoder works better, if the json file is also a layer in the comp and not just a footage item in the project:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2480417
Does it work better, if you drag the mamoworld.json file from the project panel into your timeline? When the json file is a layer in your comp, you get a warning each time the structure of the file changes (but not if only the content changes) and maybe Media Encoder deals more properly with it.

Nicolas Telmaut said:

I've got the exact same problem. My JSON is valid! Mickael - did you find a solution?

PS: I am rendering in CC19 using "Add to Media Encoder" if this matters.

Mickael Frigout said:

mamoworld Möhl said:

Hi Mickael,

this sounds like a bug in the After Effects JSON feature. Does it help if you right click on the json file in your Ae project panel and choose "Reload Footage"? It might also help to purche the memory and disk cache.

Mickael Frigout said:

Bonjour,

Je rencontre actuellement un problème, lors de l'export il ne prend pas en compte mon changement de texte du fichier Json ? Manque t'il quelque chose de mon côté ?

Merci,

Non je me retrouve toujours avec le même problème, j'ai vidé le cache ainsi que recharger le métrage

Sur mon visualiseur le texte est quand même le bon, seulement au rendu qu'il ne change pas

mamoworld Möhl · July 2019

Hi Nicolas,

if it works when rendering inside Ae but not when rendering with AME, then only the After Effects team can fix this. mamoworldJSON just automates the process for you to create the json file and the expressions, but if the json feature of Ae itself has bugs, then only Adobe can change that. Please file a bug report at https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

the more people complain, the quicker Adobe will address this issue.

Nicolas Telmaut said:

Hi Möhl - unfortunately, no.
I included Mamoworld.json in there, at the top of all layers, then at the bottom - no luck.

I really wonder what's wrong. Same as the person commenting: it works if I only render with AE (but really not my workflow unfortunately).
Are you guys able to make it work within AME?

mamoworld Möhl · July 2019

Hi Matteo,

the json feature of After Effects does not support to replace images, since images cannot be controlled with expressions. You can turn the visibility of layers on and off to show/hide images, but not change the source file. See this tutorial for details: https://mamoworld.com/tutorials/data-driven-animation-json-after-effects-part-3-showhide-layers

If you want to replace images, you need to write your own custom Ae scripts or use script-based solutions like Templater or CompsFromSpreadsheets.

https://aescripts.com/templater/

https://aescripts.com/compsfromspreadsheet/

matteo raggi said:

Hi. Is here a way to change also the images and not only the text?

Dogus Bozkurt · September 2019

i cannot use the linear function. When i connect the y position with the json data it automatically gives that variable below. var result = mamoworldJSONValue("temperature line.0") In the tutorial 'var result =' doesn't exist. I used 'result' as the variable and apply the linear function but it didn't work. I tried in many other ways but i couldn't apply the linear function. Is there something that i'm missing or is it because of the update?

mamoworld Möhl · September 2019

Thank you for pointing me to this, Dogus.

We had to add the "var result = " in newer versions of mamoworldJSON, in order to stay compatible with the new Ae expressions engine. The code for the linear expression must be a little bit different: You need to add the "var result =" before the linear, so the expression looks like this:

var temperature = mamoworldJSONValue("temperature line.0");

var result = linear(temperature,-10,40,250,50);

If anybody else is reading this, Dogus is talking about modifying the expression as described here:

Dogus Bozkurt said:

i cannot use the linear function. When i connect the y position with the json data it automatically gives that variable below. var result = mamoworldJSONValue("temperature line.0") In the tutorial 'var result =' doesn't exist. I used 'result' as the variable and apply the linear function but it didn't work. I tried in many other ways but i couldn't apply the linear function. Is there something that i'm missing or is it because of the update?

mamoworld Möhl · November 2019

Hi Nick,

this sounds like you changed something in the JSON file that turned it into an invalid json file.

Please check your JSON file with a JSON validator like this one:

https://jsonlint.com/

Just copy and paste the entire content of the file and it will show you any error in your JSON syntax.

Wing Luo · June 2020

Everything works fine in the AE, but it breaks using aerender command line render. Is that a limitation with mamoworld?

mamoworld Möhl · June 2020

Hi Wing,

all that mamoworldJSON does is using the native JSON support of After Effects. So if it does not work with command line render, it is a bug or limitation of After Effects itself. I am not aware of such a limitation, but please file a bug report to the Adobe team here

https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

Wing Luo said:

Everything works fine in the AE, but it breaks using aerender command line render. Is that a limitation with mamoworld?

Wing Luo · June 2020

mamoworld Möhl said:

Hi Wing,

all that mamoworldJSON does is using the native JSON support of After Effects. So if it does not work with command line render, it is a bug or limitation of After Effects itself. I am not aware of such a limitation, but please file a bug report to the Adobe team here
https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

Wing Luo said:

Everything works fine in the AE, but it breaks using aerender command line render. Is that a limitation with mamoworld?

after digging deeper on it, i realized the json file has to be added to the comp in order for it to work under aerender's commandline render. mamoworld is working perfectly after all. your script is awesome.

mamoworld Möhl · June 2020

Interesting! Thanks for sharing the solution, Wing.

Wing Luo said:

after digging deeper on it, i realized the json file has to be added to the comp in order for it to work under aerender's commandline render. mamoworld is working perfectly after all. your script is awesome.

VIVIEN NOLOT · January 2021

Great job.

Is it possible to contribute in order to add functionalities? Do you have a git repo?

Yours truly

mamoworld Möhl · January 2021

Thank you, but no, it is not open source. What additional functionality do you have in mind?

VIVIEN NOLOT said:

Great job.
Is it possible to contribute in order to add functionalities? Do you have a git repo?
Yours truly

mark mont · May 2022

Hi! Love what this is helping me achieve. Wondering if it can let me connect to an array - example being weather data - can we connect to [3] in an array called "daily"? Looks like below - array has 7 items, all with repeating info.

"daily": [

{

"dt": 1653076800,

"sunrise": 1653049406,

"sunset": 1653105354,

"moonrise": 1653035880,

"moonset": 1653064440,

"moon_phase": 0.68,

"temp": {

"day": 11.94,

"min": 6.97,

"max": 13.5,

"night": 10.63,

"eve": 11.2,

"morn": 8.62

mamoworld Möhl · May 2022

Hi Mark,

mamoworldJSON has no build-in support for arrays. Alternatively you can write such an expression manually.

You can access array values like this with an expression:

footage("mamoworld.json").sourceData.daily[3].temp.max

Cheers,

Mathias

Mark Montgomery said:

Hi! Love what this is helping me achieve. Wondering if it can let me connect to an array - example being weather data - can we connect to [3] in an array called "daily"? Looks like below - array has 7 items, all with repeating info.

"daily": [
{
"dt": 1653076800,
"sunrise": 1653049406,
"sunset": 1653105354,
"moonrise": 1653035880,
"moonset": 1653064440,
"moon_phase": 0.68,
"temp": {
"day": 11.94,
"min": 6.97,
"max": 13.5,
"night": 10.63,
"eve": 11.2,
"morn": 8.62

mark mont · May 2022

Mathias,

Thank you so much!

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