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  • Questions, answers, and discussions about using Google Sheets as a Templater data source.

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    @R1ot Working with the Essential Graphics panel and Templater can be a bit daunting at first, as it’s a very unique workflow. Let me see if I can describe how we might set up a project in the way you described, and hopefully, that will be enough to get things moving in the right direction. For this example, I’m going to refer to our main AE comp as “Main Project”. The first thing we’ll want to do is locate the properties we want to adjust and drag them into the Essential Graphics Panel. For this example, let’s say we have an image layer named “picture”. We’ll want to open the Transform section of the properties and drag the “Scale” and “Position” properties into the EGP. Once we’ve got those properties in our EGP window, we’ll want to rename them to something that’s easy to reference in our Google Sheet. For now, let’s rename “Image Scale” to just “scale” and “Image Position” to “position”. From there, let’s create a new comp in AE and edit it so that the name is surrounded with double curly braces, like {{Comp1}}. The double curly braces will instruct Templater that this will be the default comp to process when it comes time to export. After that, we’ll want to drag our “Main Project” comp into the {{Comp1}} comp and rename it. For this example, I’m going to rename this comp to “assembly” (with no quotes). After that, we’ll want to drag the Templater Settings Effect onto our “assembly” comp so that Templater knows which EGP settings to adjust. We can verify that everything is set up correctly by opening the “assembly” comp and confirming that we have both the Templater Settings Effect and an Essential Properties section that contains our scale and position values. Now, we’ll want to head over to our Google Sheet to add the columns to control the data. The names should be formatted like this: layername@[property name]. So, for this example, we’ll want to add a column for our scale property: assembly@[scale], and one for our position property: assembly@[position]. Once that’s done, we’ll need to populate those columns with values. However, if we take a look at the scale and position values in our project, we’ll see that they both contain two values, separated by a comma. That means that the value for those properties is an array, and that will need to be reflected in our data source. So, for example, in our assembly@[position] column, we’ll need to add something like this: [100,100]. That should instruct Templater to set the value for the position EGP property to 100,100. This is a bit counterintuitive when it comes to the scale property, but since AE adjusts the horizontal and vertical scale with two different, matching values, we’ll still need an array for that property as well. Finally, we should be able to preview the {{Comp1}} project and see the results reflected in the Essential Properties values. As a quick side note, this won’t affect the linked properties in the “Main Project” comp, only in the “assembly” precomp in {{Comp1}}. Hopefully, that all makes sense, but if you have any questions, you can let us know here or get in touch with us directly at support@dataclay.com. Happy Rendering!
  • Questions, answers, and discussions about using a local JSON object array as a Templater data source.

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    @eric_dean Great question! Escaping the quotation marks should be as easy as putting a backslash before the quotes in the text block of our JSON file. So, for example, if we wanted something like this: Lorem ipsum "dolor" sit amet we’d write it like this: Lorem ipsum \"dolor\" sit amet The backslashes should be read as an “escape” to keep the quotation marks in the text from interfering with the formatting of the JSON data file. Hopefully, that should be all we need, but if you have any other questions, please feel free to reach out. Thanks, Jeff
  • Questions, answers, and discussions about using URL feeds as Templater data sources.

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    @oms The structure of the data returned is not readable by Templater. You need to have it respond to your request as an array of objects. Inside the objects, you cannot have nested objects either. You actually can, but Templater will ignore it. So for example your structure now is this: { "data": { "id":2, "name":"fuchsia rose", "year":2001, "color":"#C74375", "pantone_value":"17-2031" }, "support": { "url":"https://reqres.in/#support-heading", "text":"To keep ReqRes free, contributions towards server costs are appreciated!" } } But really it needs to be an array, and it needs to be “flat” objects inside that array. So it would be best to do: [ { "id" : 2, "name" : "fuchsia rose", "year" : 2001, "color" : "#C74375", "pantone_value" : "17-2031", "url" : "https://reqres.in/#support-heading", "text" : "To keep ReqRes free, contributions towards server costs are appreciated!" } ] Note how the singular object is still within an array [ ]. Also note that there are no nested objects in that singular object in the array. Does this help?
  • Questions, answers, and discussions about using Tabbed Separated Value files as a Templater data source.

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    If your data is stored in Microsoft Excel, you will need to export it as a Tabbed Separated Value file—known as a TSV file. With all the various Microsoft Excel releases, the steps to convert a worksheet to a TSV file vary between versions and operating systems. Also, don’t forget that you may need to enable the “Tab delimited file exported from Excel or Numbers” checkbox within the Templater Preferences dialog to work with TSV data exported or saved from Microsoft Excel. [image: 1469650488015-screen-shot-2016-07-27-at-3.14.17-pm.png]
  • Issue pulling images from Uploadcare.com

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    @veteos Glad to hear that’s resolved, and that it was an easy fix!
  • Issue with generation of the videos

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    @jeff Thanks jeff, everything works fine!
  • Importing DSLR Images for Photo Booth

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    @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.

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    @jeff Thank you so much Jeff it helps a lot.
  • Replicate Project file for rendering with render farm

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    @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!
  • Can´t understand how "replicate" works

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    @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.
  • Older version of Templater

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    @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.
  • Large data set 'not responding' before replicating

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    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

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    @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.
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    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.
  • Templater not downloading image links from jotform

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  • Linking text color and and layer transparency.

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    @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

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    @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.
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  • Templater not Downloading the link from jotform

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    @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

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  • Map data to your After Effects composition layers

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