$Page After Effect Export
$TargetName After Effect Export

*PLATFORM NOTE - limited Windows support*
Although the example device works on Windows, this Live Set loads a video file in the Arrangement View. Live is not optimized for working with video files on Windows, so this Set only works on macOS.

*Exporting notes to After Effects*
This device gets note information from a clip and writes the start times and durations into a script file that After Effects can run to add that information into its timeline.

Since Max for Live lets you access the notes in a clip, it is possible to write them to a text file in any format.

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Running the script in After Effects will generate a solid for every note pitch in use, with opacity changes that mirror that note's velocities.

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This set contains the rendered result (with a Brush Strokes effect applied to it) in the Arrangement view.

-> Opening a popup dialog from a user action in a device is generally considered bad practice since it might interrupt the workflow on stage. So we're making an exception to that in this device.
-> Writing files to disk from Max is potentially hazardous, you might end up overwriting valuable user files. Use with caution!

The clip contains the notes of Adagio in A from Toccata, Adagio and Fuge in C (BWV564) by Johann Sebastian Bach, as performed by $Link Aart Bergwerf <https://www.aartbergwerff.nl/>. 

A version of this plugin was developed to support the audiovisual works of $Link Jaap Drupsteen <https://www.drupsteen.nl/>.