Grass Valley After Effects Plug-in Vertigo Suite v.4.9 - Manual (Page 20)

After Effects Plug-in User Manual 3-5
Miranda Animation (Merge Mode) option
Creating a spreadsheet for Merge Mode
Before Merge Mode can create a batch export of animation and/or video files, you must
create and populate an Excel spreadsheet containing the proper formatting and information
(figure
3-4 ).
Figure 3-4. Example of a spreadsheet formatted for merge mode
The first row in the spreadsheet contains column headers for the data in the After Effects
composition. After the first row of headers, all subsequent valid rows will create an
animation or video file using the data specified in the row.
The following sections describe the mandatory and optional columns and information that
must be present in the spreadsheet for Merge Mode to function properly:
•
“Project Name column” on page 3-5 (required)
• “Output File Name column” on page 3-6 (required)
• “Subfolder columns” on page 3-7 (optional)
• “Layer tag columns” on page 3-9 (optional)
• “Intuition Template & Intuition Template Element columns” on page 3-10 (optional)
• “Asset Lifespan column” on page 3-10 (optional)
• “Asset Expiry Date column” on page 3-10 (optional)
• “Vertigo Template, Vertigo Template Element & VAF XmediaServer columns” on page
3-11
(optional)
Project Name column
When using the Merge Mode to perform a batch export of animation and/or video files, the
first column in the spreadsheet must be named P
ROJECT N AME . This column must contain the
entire path to the After Effects project to be loaded for the given row of data (figure 3-5 ).
Figure 3-5. Example of the Project Name column for exporting a batch of animation files
Figure 3-5 also demonstrates that different projects can be associated with each row of a
spreadsheet so that animations and/or videos generated from the data in one spreadsheet
can be created from different projects.