Data Sources

Issue with generation of the videos

AndrewVasiliev — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 23:18:30 GMT

@jeff Thanks jeff, everything works fine!

Issue pulling images from Uploadcare.com

Jon — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:58:51 GMT

@veteos Glad to hear that’s resolved, and that it was an easy fix!

Importing DSLR Images for Photo Booth

ariestav — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 13:10:20 GMT

@yesimfaceless Hi! Thank you for writing into our support, I just wanted to follow up with a response here to help the community of users. I’ve pulled from my response and inserted it here. Please let us know if you have any questions. I understand the question about getting the photo that matches the form entry to the appropriate user. At the moment, you would likely need to use Templater’s event architecture to accomplish this. Essentially, what you would need to do is write a script — in your language of preference — that executes immediately after the render finishes. That script might do something like: Convert the output to a preferred codec / format (eg. gif, mp4, etc.) Transfer or move the output to a preferred destination (eg. AWS S3 bucket) Notify an email address as to where to download the asset. With the script written, a developer can “register” their script to Templater’s events. You can read about that in this topic within our docs. Also, as an added resource, we maintain an open repository of example event scripts that are useful for developers to get started.

How to connect and read data from MySQL.

oms — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 20:47:28 GMT

@jeff Thank you so much Jeff it helps a lot.

Replicate Project file for rendering with render farm

Jeff — Thu, 06 May 2021 15:52:26 GMT

@RonanDL If you’re looking to initiate a replication job with Templater based on a trigger, the easiest way would probably be to set up a script to run Templater in CLI configuration. The Command-Line interface for Templater relies on a file named templater-options.json to control all of the various Template Preferences options, so configuring it to replicate to versioned .aep files should be a snap. On the other hand, if you’re looking to switch between replication and rendering mid-job, that would be a bit trickier. I can think of a few different options that might work, but the easiest would be to use multiple Bots to process the data. You could set one to render and one to replicate and then designate which one the data is sent to using the reserved bot column. Hopefully, that makes sense, but if I can clarify anything, just let me know. Thanks!

Older version of Templater

Jon — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 15:27:27 GMT

@Tasnadi-Otto Hi! I replied to your other thread about the scaling issue, which is resolved in 2.9.6. We do not recommend using older versions of Templater, and if you are using it with Google Sheets, versions prior to 2.9.5 will stop working entirely with that data source in the near future. We don’t offer the older versions for download any longer. If you still need 2.9.1, the Windows installer would be included in the same zip archive as the MacOS one, so if you still have access to that in your MacOS downloads folder, you could get it that way. If you don’t still have access to that original download, it looks like you purchased through aescripts-- you can log into your account and go to your downloads section. From there, I believe it will allow you to download the original version you purchased, as well as the most recent version released. I don’t believe that their site offers intermediate versions, only the first and last ones.

Can´t understand how "replicate" works

Jon — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:27:14 GMT

@Junior The JSON files that Templater generates in that folder can be ignored. They aren’t relevant to what you’re doing. You will want to still remove any that got imported into the Project panel in your AEP file, as those can cause errors. You can have the project file and the replicated AEP files or videos in separate locations. The two are independent. In addition, you can also have the AME watch folder be in a completely different location from AME’s output folder. AME defaults to sorting the files it is processing into a source and an output folder within the main destination that you are watching, but you can set those to be separated.

Large data set 'not responding' before replicating

dhannigan — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:26:01 GMT

Thank you for the detailed response. I got word we are licensed for bot so once we get that going it should streamline the process!

Asset Paths

Jon — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 17:55:14 GMT

@pbretz The partial paths for footage references in your data should work with / on both Windows and Mac. I can’t remember exactly, but there might be an exception for any aep data values, where it is expecting an absolute path to the project file, but I think those can get parsed either way.

Templater not downloading image links from jotform

raivisog — Sun, 10 May 2020 20:09:35 GMT

Re: Templater not Downloading the link from jotform

jotform links for images not pulling into Templater

Jon — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:14:32 GMT

In case anyone comes across this topic later, it appears that jotform changed something about the way that they serve media files, and they no longer appear to be offering directly hosted files that work with Templater. There is a paid plugin called Uploadcare that I believe still works for file uploads that Templater can import.

Linking text color and and layer transparency.

Jon — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:46:44 GMT

@darrencase There are several ways to set text color. We’ve got a sample project on our GitHub repo that demonstrates one of the ways, but there are others as well.

Linking assets to an external CMS/DAM

Jon — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:42:45 GMT

@ParanoidGrenade we don’t have specifics on integrating with a CMS/DAM, as we don’t often have visibility into the various ways our customers use Templater…If it is able to deliver assets in a way that fits within the guidelines, it should be possible-- the URLs need to be direct links to a file (with a file extension) and they need to be accessible without logging in.

Templater not Downloading the link from jotform

Ridvan — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:57:01 GMT

@ariestav thanks! Just needed some time to work out. It is working now thanks for the reply. Appreciate!

Fix: Windows - cloud-based assets not downloading

Jon — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:52:04 GMT

In some instances Windows’ Internet Security options might be preventing the download of cloud-based assets. Sometimes this happens if those assets have been collected via a web form (such as JotForm or Typeform). To fix this, open up your Internet Options (an easy way to do this is to hit the Win key then type “Internet Options”), go to the Security tab and click on the “Custom level” button. Find the option “Miscellaneous > Access data sources across domains” and enable it.

Stackoverflow thread

Map data to your After Effects composition layers

ariestav — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:58:03 GMT

Mapping data between your data source and your layers is a simple process:

Apply the Templater Settings effect to a layer. See supported layer types.
Rename that layer to match the corresponding column header in your spreadsheet. In the case of JSON data sources, rename the layer to match the corresponding property key
Repeat for every layer you want to make dynamic in your compositions.

For a conceptual overview and quick reference, read the Mapped Data topic in the online documentation.

Watch how to map spreadsheet data to layers within compositions.

Learn more about mapping JSON objects to layers within compositions.

Avoid naming any of your layers with any of the terms listed under reserved column / property names.