Edit 2000 images

[SEELIG]

Dear Community,

i have around 2000 images and want to add some effects on them and export each with the correct name.

Any recomandations for a plugin?

Thx in advance

[Mathias Moehl]

Do you need to do it in After Effects?

Photoshop has pretty powerful batch processing capabilities.

[SEELIG]

Needs to be After Effects, not Photoshop 😉

[Martin_Ritter]

Can't you create the effect on transparent and use PS for compositing?

It's pretty easy to set up such an action in PS, but to do this with AE, you need to write your own script.

*Martin

[Rick Gerard]

Without knowing what you are trying to do it's impossible to make any reasonable suggestions. What effects? Are you trying to render movies? The only thing I can tell you with a relative degree of certainty is that you are going to need to create 2000 comps, one for each image and if the effects are all the same, set up a script or save an animation preset. 

[SEELIG]

I just want to manipulate the images with some plugins - tried to recreate in photoshop but AE has better third parties plugins.

I think im trying it with scripts.

My approach would be, that i first create a Master Comp with Adjustment Layer and Effects added to it and then the script needs to do its looping action 😁

- Import image from folder 

- duplicate Master comp and rename it to the image file

- add the image to the comp (below the adjustment layer)

- ready

After this i have the 2000 comps and can add it myself to the renderer.

Think i need to check that scripting things myself out 😂

[Martin_Ritter]

Scripting isn't to hard, but 2000 comps are no fun in AE. 

Try to just replace a placeholder with the image and put this comp into the render queue. You can apply a render preset and invoke the renderer from script. I'm sure you can add a filename dynamically, so even no need to rename the comp.

I'm not sure if 2000 images linked to AE is a good idea, either, so maybe just load, process, render, delete, repeat. If you point the script to a "source" folder, you can easily redo a single image or a bunch of images by just putting this or them into the source folder.

Share your script, if you don't mind. It's always helpful for one or the other.

*Martin

[Mathias Moehl]

The script CompsFromSpreadsheet could be helpful in that case.

https://aescripts.com/compsfromspreadsheet/

You just need to put the 5000 images in a spreadsheet and the tool creates the comps for you. I guess that is faster than writing your own script.

[Rick Gerard]

A sample of what you are trying to do and a description of your AE workflow would help us help you. The information you have provided so far suggests hundreds if not thousands of possible workflows.