[Submission] se_RollerCaster
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 8:42 am
How many times did you want to import a PDF into Fusion?
At least me wanted that often enough that I finally came up with a Comp Script to do so.
Don't expect micacles though...
This Script does require a proper installation of ImageMagick and Ghostscript to convert the PDF to PNG(s).
Yes. Plural. Multipage PDFs will become a sequence of PNGs. Apart from selecting the appropriate resolution and filters I found this a bit boring though,
so I started to build a basic Credit Roller (hence "Roller Caster"...) on this.
Multipage PDFs will be made into sequential PNGs,
these will be attached to ImagePlanes
and those ImagePlanes will be nicely arranged underneath one other to form a looooong credit roll.
Oh. You'll get an animated Camera as well...
The advantage I see is, that the credit roll could be layed out and edited in whatever app one prefers
(Word, OpenOffice, InDesign, Illustrator,...), exported as PDF and brought into Fusion right away,
with all the design goodies a credit roll designer might come up with.
A very basic PDF is attached, I also tested this with a 40-page PDF as well. Works.
Get ImageMagick and Ghostscript from here:
https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php
https://www.ghostscript.com/download.html
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At least me wanted that often enough that I finally came up with a Comp Script to do so.
Don't expect micacles though...
This Script does require a proper installation of ImageMagick and Ghostscript to convert the PDF to PNG(s).
Yes. Plural. Multipage PDFs will become a sequence of PNGs. Apart from selecting the appropriate resolution and filters I found this a bit boring though,
so I started to build a basic Credit Roller (hence "Roller Caster"...
) on this.Multipage PDFs will be made into sequential PNGs,
these will be attached to ImagePlanes
and those ImagePlanes will be nicely arranged underneath one other to form a looooong credit roll.
Oh. You'll get an animated Camera as well...
The advantage I see is, that the credit roll could be layed out and edited in whatever app one prefers(Word, OpenOffice, InDesign, Illustrator,...), exported as PDF and brought into Fusion right away,
with all the design goodies a credit roll designer might come up with.
A very basic PDF is attached, I also tested this with a 40-page PDF as well. Works.
Get ImageMagick and Ghostscript from here:
https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php
https://www.ghostscript.com/download.html
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Atom {
Name = "se_RollerCaster",
Category = "Scripts/Comp",
Author = "Eric 'SirEdric' Westphal",
Version = 0.75,
Date = {2018, 25, 12},
Description = [[<h3 align="center"><sup>[se]</sup>RollerCaster</h3><p align="center"><strong>Convert PDF to PNG and import to Fusion.</strong><br>Multi page PDFs will be made into a sequence of PNGs,
these will then be attached to individual ImagePlanes
and those ImagePlanes will be nicely arranged underneath one other to form a looooong credit roll.
You'll get an animated Camera as well...:-)<br>
The advantage is, that the credit roll could be layed out and edited in whatever app one prefers
(Word, OpenOffice, InDesign, Illustrator,...), exported as PDF and brought into Fusion right away,
with all the design goodies a credit roll designer might come up with.<br><br>
<strong>This Script does require a proper installation of ImageMagick and Ghostscript to convert the PDF to PNG(s).</strong><br><br>
<a href="https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php">Get ImageMagick</a><br>
<a href="https://www.ghostscript.com/download.html">Get GhostScript</a>
]],
Donation = {
URL = [[https://www.paypal.me/SirEdric]],
Amount = "€5.00",
},
Deploy = {
"Scripts/Comp/SirEdric/se_RollerCaster.lua",
},
Dependencies = {
"<a href="https://www.ghostscript.com/download.html">Get GhostScript</a>",
"<a href="https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php">Get ImageMagick</a><br>",
},
}
