Parameterized Animation Mode / AE Plugin?
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:09 am
First off, let me say that I just discovered ContextFree a little while ago, and I'm loving it. Awesome job!
One thing that would be very cool is to have the ability to generate animations based on parameterizations in a source file. For instance, an animation might be the set of frames generated by adjusting a particular rotation value in my cfdg source over a specified range and then drawing the entire output image each time.
Right now, I'm doing this via perl script - doing a replacement on my source file, and invoking the CLI to render out a set of PNG frames that I can then import into AfterEffects. It's a little slow and tedious, and highly space-inefficeint, but it works.
Not sure how much work this would be, but what might actually be even cooler would be to write a ContextFree module that is an AfterEffects plugin, and allow those sorts of things to be parameterized via the AfterEffects interface.
One thing that would be very cool is to have the ability to generate animations based on parameterizations in a source file. For instance, an animation might be the set of frames generated by adjusting a particular rotation value in my cfdg source over a specified range and then drawing the entire output image each time.
Right now, I'm doing this via perl script - doing a replacement on my source file, and invoking the CLI to render out a set of PNG frames that I can then import into AfterEffects. It's a little slow and tedious, and highly space-inefficeint, but it works.
Not sure how much work this would be, but what might actually be even cooler would be to write a ContextFree module that is an AfterEffects plugin, and allow those sorts of things to be parameterized via the AfterEffects interface.