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After Effects Plug-in User Manual

3-7

Miranda Animation (Merge Mode) option

demonstrates that specifying the relative path Animation\3001.oxi, the animation will
be saved to the directory c:\AE\Animation. Meanwhile, specifying the absolute path of
c:\AEAnimationFile\3001.oxi

saves the file in the folder AEAnimationFile at the root

level of c:.

Figure 3-8. Example of the second column in the spreadsheet required for Merge Mode

N

OTE

You can automatically publish the newly rendered animation or video files to the appropriate
devices by selecting the appropriate devices within the category or subcategory properties
in the Asset Browser (Xplorer or Xstudio).

Subfolder columns

By default, the rendered animation or video files are saved to the location (directory or XMS)
specified in the O

UTPUT

field of the E

XPORT

M

IRANDA

A

NIMATION

dialog box (see

page 3-1

).

As an alternative method to specifying a relative path in the O

UTPUT

F

ILE

N

AME

column

(

page 3-6

), you can also determine exactly where the files will be stored by adding optional

S

UBFOLDER

X

columns to the spreadsheet. The Subfolder columns allow you to specify the

name and hierarchy of the directory subfolders or XMS subcategories in which to save the
file. Subfolder columns must be sequentially numbered starting with S

UBFOLDER

1.

Figure

3-9

demonstrates that Subfolder columns must be sequentially numbered starting with

S

UBFOLDER

1 (one-level below the directory location specified in the O

UTPUT

field or the XMS’s

root category. Each additional Subfolder column creates a subdirectory/subcategory below the
previous. Also note that the relative path specified in the O

UTPUT

F

ILE

N

AME

column (

page 3-6

),

is conserved and applied last. You can also add multiple subdirectories/subcategories in one
subfolder column (e.g. cat1\cat2).

Figure 3-9. Subfolder columns

Path relative to location

Absolute path

specified in the O

UTPUT

field

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