AE Script: VARA to CSV and back

The year is 2016 and Joel is releasing a tool on the Automic Marketplace. While not revolutionising the Automic world, it has long been one of the most popular items on the Marketplace with over 200 downloads. Now we are venturing a new edition - updated and with lots of explanations, you will learn how to use AE Script to convert VARA objects to CSV files and how to convert CSV files to VARA objects. Of course, the finished tool will also be available for download at the end.

ℹ️ This Automic Course is part of PEM Automic and was published on September 18th 2024.

📋 Content: 4 lessons and 1 final test

🕒 Duration: Around 30 minutes

Convert VARA objects with AE Script

In this course, you'll get pure AE Scripting experience. Together we're creating two useful tools: CSV2VARA and VARA2CSV. The two tools allow you to convert VARA objects into CSV files and vice versa.

These tools utilise various techniques from the AE scripting world. Here we do not work with GET_VAR and PUT_VAR, but mainly with data sequences. For this purpose, we implement some additional features. With VARA2CSV, for example, we can define our own CSV title line or set whether existing files should be overwritten or not. With CSV2VARA, we can even create the target VARA if it does not to exist.

In order for the whole thing to be easy to reuse, the most important settings are stored in variables. And to avoid having to change these manually each time in the script itself, we gather their values using PromptSets.

The cherry on top is the integration of the solution into the UC_SENDTO VARA. This makes it possible to send the name of the VARA to export straight to our VARA2CSV solution.

Become a scripting pop star for your operations by providing them with this simple tool and customising it for your company!

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