Comments on: Expressions and External Documents – Revised for CS4

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:39:13 +0000

Thanks for all the information. I’m about to update about 100 football player headshots but had an additional thought. Is there a way to do something similar but change out a person’s headshot or graphic? I know the expression would be entirely different but the concept would be the same.

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By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:46:24 +0000

It’s a bit like saying “my car won’t start” and discerning the problem.

Generally, when it errors immediate on the first line, it cannot find the file. Check your capitalization, paths, file name. That’s one random stab at it.

Maybe send along your project file? harry at graymachine dot com

By: Gabor

Gabor — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:31:14 +0000

Finally i could solve it, thx!

By: Gabor

Gabor — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:09:09 +0000

Hi, i try to get a text from an external file. Everithing seems fine, exept, that only the first character appears in my textbox. I tryed everything. Shure, it is a paragraph box and big enoughm etc. Maybe somebody met already with this problem? Thanks

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:59:05 +0000

Hi, i was just wondering if this will work with the newest version of after effects?

it looks great btw, exactly what i was searching for!

By: Peter Erickson

Peter Erickson — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:04:09 +0000

Is there any reason why this expression should not be working in CS5.5? I keep getting the error, “Expected: ; Expression disabled…Error occured at line 1.”

I’m a total noob when it comes to expressions – and have gone over the thread above a bit but can’t figure out why it’s not working for me. My Expressions folder is in the main HD of my Mac, and the file is plain text only – no smart quotes. Thanks!

By: Tom hemeryk

Tom hemeryk — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:21:05 +0000

Hey, I made some adjustments to the script so now you can use it within 1 composition, trigger the lines by a marker and choose between using an internal file for small amounts of text and an external .txt
So tnx for the inspiration, I made a small tutorial about the usage : http://www.visualart.be/?p=173

By: Gabor

Gabor — Wed, 25 May 2011 07:48:25 +0000

Hi, could somebody tell me why only the first character appears in my textbox? I tryed to resize the box, also the character size but doesent help. Thankx in advance.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:02:12 +0000

This script is awesome! Can this expression be taken to another level or have the concept applied in a different manner? For example, if we wanted to automatically update/replace a layer in the composition with another one residing in the project where this layer was either a precomp, source footage, or audio file via text file (or within the same text file as the current expression). It would be a specific replacement to layers tied to the expression, in hundreds of compositions in the project file. Here’s the scenario to clarify:

1. have a hundreds of different comps with source text that needs updating daily
2. each comp has an image, source footage (or audio) that also needs updating daily and are within the same comp as the source text that gets updated.

Thank you again, for such a time saving script. It is such a helper!