@jeff That was it! Thank you. I am trying out Templater 3 and so far so good.

@jeff thanks for your detailed answer.
So currently, the only way is to work in a team project, is to convert to local before Templaer, and then import the resulting project to a new team project.

Brobably is not worth the mess, as a project becomes big enough to require a team project, this could be messy.

We will try to find other ways of colaborating in big projects.

thanks!

@jeff Checking those worked. Simple fix. Thanks Jeff!

@jeff That is fantastic. I will test this out today.

@jeff Thanks for the feedback!

@jeff Thanks a lot! And thanks for the link to the reserved column names. I couldn’t find that in the website but rushing with a project and learning in the way I’m sure I missed that…

Thanks again!

@jeff
Thanks! Very clear

@jeff Thank you for clearing things up!
I was thinking the same, that the only way would be to go with Templater Bot Event Scripts.

@jasontcox we’ve also used something called gifsicle, which is a command line tool for optimizing gifs (homepage). What you do in this case, you render a version from AE’s render queue, then you do a post-render action to transcode to gif with ffmpeg and then compress with gifsicle. These event scripts require Templater Bot. You’ll need to add gifsicle and ffmpeg to your SYSTEM PATH.

Here’s an example of a script (Windows BAT file) that I’ve used. Feel free to use it as a baseline to remix for your own purposes. (No warranties implied)

@ECHO ON SET RENDER="%~1" SET RPATH=%~dp1 SET ID=%~n1 SET FRAMERATE="15" SET SCALE="0" SET COLORS="256" SET PALETTE="%RPATH%palette.png" SET FILTERS=fps=%FRAMERATE%,scale=%SCALE%:-1:flags=lanczos SET GIFOUT="%RPATH%gifs\%ID%.gif" SET GIFCOMP="%RPATH%gifs-lossy\%ID%.gif" SET FULLRES="%RPATH%full-res" SET GIFFINAL="N:\email-campaigns\newsletter" ffmpeg -v warning -i %RENDER% -vf %FILTERS%,palettegen=stats_mode=diff:max_colors=%COLORS% -y %PALETTE% ffmpeg -i %RENDER% -i %PALETTE% -loop 0 -lavfi "%FILTERS% [x]; [x][1:v] paletteuse=dither=bayer:bayer_scale=3" -vcodec gif -y %GIFOUT% gifsicle %GIFOUT% -O3 --lossy=200 --output %GIFCOMP% move /Y %RENDER% %FULLRES% copy /Y %GIFCOMP% %GIFFINAL%

@seth thanks. That is what the behavior is. It seems to apply to all filters. I get the same limit with filtering output.

@unclemonty

It seems like you’ve already found a solution, but I wanted to chime in and say that it should, theoretically, be possible to map the same value to both a footage and text layer simultaneously. In this case, the footage layer should be swapped out, and the text layer should be replaced with the filename present in the cell.

As you noted, you’d need to use an expression to strip out any subfolder information or file extensions, but from a theoretical standpoint, it should work.

If you have any other questions or run into any problems, let us know, and we’ll do whatever we can to get you up and running.

Thanks!

@jeff Thank you Jeff. Taking one part of the custom name directly from AE was the stuff i was looking for, so i can use output column in google sheets that would be combined by Templater with AE’s compositions’ names, but its not a big deal. Just thought it might be possible, since plugin is all about automating stuff. If for some reason its hard to do, its not a big problem.

@Jeff

Thanks for the info.

I’m familiar with expressions, but far from an expert.

We’ll see how this goes. I’ll circle back either way.

-josh

@Jeff

Thanks for the info. I’m familiar with the Filter action in Zapier and will try that out. I was expecting that we’d need to use a Que action.

Thanks.

Pete

@Jeff Thanks for your detailed response! My curiosity has been satiated on this matter.

@RyanB

Glad to hear that you were able to track down the issue. I did some research and spoke with some of our devs, and I can confirm that all write operations for both replication and render actions should be completed before any “post_cmd_job” actions are run.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to let us know.

Thanks,

Jeff

@vreddhi-bhat

Glad to hear that you were able to resolve the problem. If you run into any other issues or have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out, and we’ll be more than happy to help.

Happy rendering!

Jeff

@Jeff I just emailed for more info.

@ermalr To add to Jeff’s post, Templater ships with both Render Settings and Output Module templates that can add multiple pre-made presets. There are direction on this page on how to import them into After Effects.

@Jeff Thanks!