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 -

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

1.5.2 -

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

1.5.1 -

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

1.5 -

Added: OS X Catalina compatibility
Changed: Licensing Framework update
Changed: Preferences are now saved using aescripts licensing framework

1.1.4 -

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

1.1.3 -

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 -

Fixed: Sometimes the script would stop during footage replacement.

1.1.1 -

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 -

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 -

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

1.0 -

Initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

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