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Inventsable / Quicker

Adobe Illustrator panel that generates QR and bar codes as quickly as you can type
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After Effects support #3

Open caleidoscopio opened 2 years ago

caleidoscopio commented 2 years ago

@Inventsable, I know development on this has stopped some time ago, but this would be awesome an After Effects plugin.

There's plenty of digital signage motion templates that could use a convenient way to generate QRCodes dynamically.

The best way to do this would obviously be with an After Effects QR code generator.

Is this even a possibility?

Inventsable commented 2 years ago

It would actually be pretty easy to do. I initially made this in a single day just on a whim but I didn't see very much desire/need for it (at least in the context of Illustrator), and the underlying tech here uses HTML canvas entirely to generate a PNG result from the given dynamic value which doesn't rely on Illustrator at all but instead handles everything on the CEP side -- so it would be very easy to have a panel that would generate a given QRCode .png file then import it to the current AE comp, but if we mean generating a comp itself that contains all the shape layers comprising the QRCode itself then this would be a lot more difficult.

I'm actually in need of things to do lately and it's been a bit alarmingly quiet in the Adobe dev freelancing world which I'm unfortunately relying on completely for income at the moment, if you think we could make this work and there's a market for it we could partner up to do it. I wouldn't expect you to do any coding and can handle that myself, but would be great to have someone with clear ideas and potentially provide graphics or examples, things we could use to demonstrate as promotional material and etc. If you don't think it's marketable then I could basically just tweak this one a bit and throw out a basic open source version.

caleidoscopio commented 2 years ago

I'm not sure about the marketability of such a plugin by itself, however I can imagine it being part of a bigger ecosystem. I have some ideas for products but I think I would need the help of a Full Stack Engineer to make it happen.

Regarding my current need, I would need to export the AE comp as a mogrt for use in Premiere Pro, so I'm not sure the png import method would work.