http://www.creative-workflow-hacks.com/2007/11/03/using-the-socket-object-to-fetch-xml-for-parsing-in-after-effects-cs3/ Sharing tips, scripts and hacks for your creative workflow. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:06:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.creative-workflow-hacks.com/2007/11/03/using-the-socket-object-to-fetch-xml-for-parsing-in-after-effects-cs3/#comment-8890 Creative Workflow Hacks » Blog Archive » Doing something interesting with our Socket Object and XML; A slightly flawed Flickr reader for AE CS3 on the Mac Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:22:09 +0000 http://www.creative-workflow-hacks.com/2007/11/03/using-the-socket-object-to-fetch-xml-for-parsing-in-after-effects-cs3/#comment-8890 [...] Last time, we talked about using a Socket Object in After Effects CS3 to parse a data feed with E4X XML parsing. There are a lot of useful workflow operations I can think of that could make use of data feeds, but After Effects is a visual medium, so let’s do something visual, let’s import a set of flickr photos matching a tag. This is a proof of concept script, and before you plunge into experimenting you should check the terms of service of the web feed provider and respect the use of images you download. That said, let’s take a look at some code. [...] [...] Last time, we talked about using a Socket Object in After Effects CS3 to parse a data feed with E4X XML parsing. There are a lot of useful workflow operations I can think of that could make use of data feeds, but After Effects is a visual medium, so let’s do something visual, let’s import a set of flickr photos matching a tag. This is a proof of concept script, and before you plunge into experimenting you should check the terms of service of the web feed provider and respect the use of images you download. That said, let’s take a look at some code. [...]

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