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October 28, 2024
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Automation Blocks - Add and Format Text - Roundtrip from Chatbot

  • October 28, 2024
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Hi, we need to add animated text over the videos. We have AE Templates for Premiere where we need to change the text and add formatting like add a custom colour to some words - coloring single words takes up a lot of time So its the same AE Template for text multiple times in a Premiere sequence, with different text in different formatting. Is there any way to automate this: Say I have the text with the words marked bold or added other information in brackeds when they need to be coloured. Can I apply this text to all my AE templates instead of copying in and formatting manually?
Ideally I would like to format text with an AI Chatbot and then output a text with metadata like formatting instructions that can be imported into Premiere so it adapts to the AE templates. So I could for example tell it to output in csv or json style. Is that possible?    

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Mathias Moehl
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Community Expert
November 17, 2024

Hi, I just stumbled upon your comment. Please make sure to add the tag "SDK" (as described here) to future Automation Blocks discussions, since I won't be notified about topics without that tag.

What you could try to do is modify your Ae mogrts to understand certain annotations.


Say, your templates has a text "My [red]great[/red] title", then inside of Ae, with expressions you could process that text, split it into three separate parts "my",  "great", and "title" and render each of them with a separate text layer (and choose for the middle one a red color). Of course, the more formatting options you want to support, the more complex your expressions setups will become. It really depends what exactly you need and in any case it will require pretty advanced, custom expressions in Ae.

 

Mathias Möhl - Developer of tools like BeatEdit and Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro and After Effects
Inspiring
November 18, 2024

Thanks for your help! I am afraid, its not even an AE template but a premiere layer so theres no chance to automate it..

Mathias Moehl
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 18, 2024

Yes, only Ae mogrts can be modified with Pr's scripting engine (and hence also with Automation Blocks). I think Pr-based texts can only be modified manually.

Mathias Möhl - Developer of tools like BeatEdit and Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro and After Effects