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Author How to automate changing layers for rendering?
Hanzo

2006-01-04, 6:49 pm

Hello AE experts,

I saw someone post a question asking how to automate changing layers
for rendering in AE and was at a loss of any solution. Can any of you
answer his inquiry?

The details of what he's trying to accomplish can be found here:

http://www.pluginz.com/forum/showth...hp?threadid=282

copying and pasting the entire post here:

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Hello folks.. first post here...

I am making animations for a client.
They're basically "Ken Burns" style animations of photographs. (where I
'move' the camera over and around the image to 'animate' it).

So:

I open a new AE file;

I make a new composition;

I drop all the images (from 25-100 photos/jpegs) onto the timeline.

I animate each photo.

Since I want to keep using the same time markers, all my photos are one
under another, each under their own layer.

(Here's a screenshot in case my description is confusing)..

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c...EScreenshot.gif

So.. my question is...

How can I automate After Effects so that, for example;

Layer 1 will render, and after it's done, it will turn itself off, so
Layer 2 will begin rendering now, and so on and so on.

I know there MUST be a way to do this... I just can't seem to find it
anyway.. I have Googled the entire universe... Adobe metions that
Professional can do it.. I have professional version 6.5... but I can't
seem to find any other info...

Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks.

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