Anyone know how I can integrate the after effects SDK in a webapp?

[DashingPrune]

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?

[Mylenium]

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

[Dan Ebberts]

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.

[shachar carmi]

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. 🙂

[Arie Stavchansky]

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

[shachar carmi]

sure thing buddy. 🙂

[Arie Stavchansky]

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!

[DashingPrune]

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