Trim N Collect

Trim media files used in your project and prepare it for archive or exchange.
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Description

Trim N Collect will trim and transcode media clips used in your project to include only the used parts, and relink to these files. It's a great solution if you want to transfer or archive your projects.

Save your disk space, transfer time and money!

Additional options give you total control over the size of handles you want to leave, processing of image and multi-channel EXR sequences, as well as how the files are collected.

Features

  • Automatic folder creation - new!
  • Transcoding templates
  • Add handles
  • Automatically consolidate overlapping media - new!
  • Consolidate gaps
  • Don't transcode full range media - new!
  • Export scripts (create a folder structure, establish project bit depth, etc.)
  • Image sequence processing:
    • Transcode image sequences will transcode the image sequences (with exception of exr files)
    • Transcode OpenEXR sequences will transcode the sequences of multichannel exr files using the template presets, depending on them having an alpha channel.
    • Customizable extensions for image sequences - new!
  • Trimmed footage management
  • Collect options:
    • Collect C4D files (without dependencies)
    • Copy entire image sequences
    • Copy entire OpenEXR sequences
    • Do not collect files will not perform the collect operation at all, instead only trimming and transcoding the used parts of the footage to the destination folder.

Crossgrade offer

Conform Studio owners can purchase Trim N Collect for $39. Just make sure you are logged in to the same account that you purchased Conform Studio with. If you have any issues or questions please contact support.

Known Limitations

Please download the user guide below to review the known limitations. We also encourage you to download and use the trial version linked above before purchase to make sure it works for your workflow.

Discussions

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Version History

1.5.3 -

Apr 2, 2021

Fixed: Locked layers will no longer cause the script to hang.

1.5.2 -

Jul 6, 2020

Fixed: Trial version would throw errors when running as a panel.

1.5.1 -

Mar 20, 2020

Fixed: Settings were not saved after importing, resulting in the alert appearing more than once.

1.5 -

Jan 31, 2020

Added: OS X Catalina compatibility

Changed: Licensing Framework update

Changed: Preferences are now saved using aescripts licensing framework

1.1.4 -

Apr 12, 2017

Fixed: Clips without time remapping capability would cause the script to hang

1.1.3 -

Oct 22, 2016

Added: Pulldown warning. The script will terminate upon encountering footage with pulldown.

Fixed: Correct render queue behavior for AE versions 13.0 and above.

Fixed: Layers with tracking mask would switch places after replacing.

Fixed: Same file in different places would prevent the script from rendering.

1.1.2 -

Apr 10, 2015

Fixed: Sometimes the script would stop during footage replacement.

1.1.1 -

Mar 16, 2015

Fixed: dng warning appears when there are no dng files in the project

Fixed: Animated masks could cause the script to fail

Added: Layered Adobe Illustrator ai files will generate psd/ai warning and switch to manual collect mode.

1.1.0 -

Feb 4, 2015

Added: Create folder based on the project name option

Added: Custom extensions to be treated as image sequences input

Added: Option not to transcode media that wouldn’t be trimmed

Added: Option to supress render messages

Added: Automatically consolidate overlapping media

Added: rgb file extension added to image sequences

Added: Layered psd files switch processing to manual collect mode

Added: Known limitations for layered psd files

Added: Known limitations for effects with arbitrary data

Fixed: Effects using arbitrary data would cause the script to fail

Fixed: Time remapping would cause the script to fail

Fixed: Consolidate with value 0 would not consolidate all gaps

Fixed: Gaps were not always consolidated

Fixed: Parenting to media layer would disappear when the media was replaced

Fixed: Expressions based on layer names would become invalid after media was replaced

1.0.1 -

Jan 14, 2015

Fixed: Multiple dots in the filename would trim it to the first dot.

1.0 -

Jan 4, 2015

Initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6