Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #43661
From: Phil Spitler <phil@bonfirelabs.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Astronomical positioning in AE (script?)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 20:43:15 -0700
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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If you can get the data into a spreadsheet into X,Y,Z columns, it would be easy enough to have a script read each row of x,y,z and apply that to the position of a layer.

I have done a similar thing taking camera data from a motion control rig into AE.

If you are not in a huge rush, I could write the script for you once you give me a sample of the data.

You will probably need some kind of multiplier in there to make the values fit within you AE world.

Phil

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On May 15, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote:

I’m working on the Big Bang section of the film. A local community college is researching celestial objects that have been imaged. They provide two pieces of data – the spherical position via a value for right ascension & declination. And a distance in megaparsecs.
 
I need to convert this into a manageable form in AE. Obviously, some kind of compensation for
 
I found this on converting to XYZ – but the how to create the math to work in AE, I’m not sure what is the best way:
 
 
I don’t know if this should be setup in Excel and then exported into AE, or some kind of script built – which is probably beyond my admittedly poor scripting skills.

Thoughts?
 
stephen van vuuren
336.202.4777
 
 
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
–Stanley Kubrick
 

 
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