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Participant
January 3, 2023
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Anyone know how I can integrate the after effects SDK in a webapp?

  • January 3, 2023
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I'm trying to create a webapp where users can enter their username and profile picture and recieve an mp4 file with a premade animation with their name and pic, similar to this site: https://profounder.com/ I've done some research and it seems like the way a lot of these sites are doing it is with after effects or premiere SDKs, anyone know where I can start with this?

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Legend
January 3, 2023

Hi There!

As others have mentioned, this is possible with the Bot edition of Templater from Dataclay.  It's a very robust and secure way of injecting data into a running After Effects instance.  You can learn more about it at https://dataclay.com/templater 

 

As well, Dataclay offers a new API very tightly integrated with Templater which is named QUE.  Within QUE there is an "Integrations" area that uses Zapier to connect data flows to QUE so that you can easily get any data into AE via Templater.  Learn more about it here:  https://dataclay.com/que

 

Check out this video on Adobe's Creative Cloud Channel to learn about how it all works.  It's a long video but will give you a good idea of how to bring it into your environment: https://youtu.be/TAnZB2aZWTg

 

Hope this helps!

 

 

Participant
January 6, 2023

Ooo, thank you for showing me this! will look into it!

Community Expert
January 3, 2023

as the orthe guys here sais, it's a pretty straight forward job. you can, however, use ready made products for that. checkout dataclay templater. it does just that. 🙂

Legend
January 3, 2023

Shachar, Happy New Year!  I hope your 2023 is going well.  Thank you for the pointer to Templater on this thread.  Much appreciated.

 

All my best,

Arie

Community Expert
January 3, 2023

sure thing buddy. 🙂

Dan Ebberts
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 3, 2023

One thing to keep in mind -- I'm pretty sure something like that runs afoul of the standard EULA, so I'm guessing you'd probably need some kind of special license. From a practical standpoint, you'd need a web front end and a way to pass jobs to AE (probably XML or JSON files with replacement text and file paths to replacement media). There are certainly some technical challenges, but it's probably do-able -- again, assuming you have a license that allows it.

Mylenium
Legend
January 3, 2023

Not sure what specifically you want or need to know. This has nothing to do with the SDKs per se. You just need to write your own scripts or custom plug-ins to get the data from the web frontend into AE. This isn't much different from how you use this stuff locally.

 

Mylenium