Import headshots via CSV - extendscript

I have a sequence set up in my premiere project. It's a simple slide in from right (whilst fading in) of a headshot. Under the headshot is the name of the person (that follows the slide and fade in animation of the headshot) and I have to create a main sequence of 40 of these (each headshot sequence lasts around 3 seconds). That means manually placing the headshots (that are all the same size) and typing in the persons name for each one.
I am wondering if there is a way to automate this via a script in premiere pro that will read from a csv file the location of the headshot image and the name of the person and create it automatically for me?
I have tried looking around for such information but haven't had much success.

You can easily acheive this using Dataclay's Templater for Adobe After Effects. Even better than a CSV, you can use a cloud based Google Sheet and connect directly to that asset so you never have to deal with a file again.

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I have this website which is called "chargefinder" it has a lot of marks on the map once you click on any mark you will get number of sockets in this area, I want to create a python script file which gonna run and collect these information from all these point but the problem that the html for each point is generated once you click on any point so I don't have text/html file which has the all the information for all points, so is there anyway I can make this?

Azure Media Services: Provide custom file names for the asset files

I'm encoding a video file using the built-in adaptive streaming transform. Once the file is successfully processed, an asset container is created with the below files:
Is it possible to provide custom file names at the time a job is created? It seems that the default behavior is to take a certain number of characters from the original file name and prepend them in the above file names. If possible, I'd like to configure this behavior.
P.S. I'm using the .NET SDK.
You can create a custom transform to output file names differently. On https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/media/transforms/createorupdate#definitions search for the Mp4Format section. In that you can specify the filenamePattern with certain macros like {Bitrate} and {Codec}.
See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/latest/custom-preset-cli-howto for an example custom transform and the process by which to create it in Media Services.
I use the macros on my jobs, they work ok. I have a process that takes 3 videos (an intro section, the actual content, and the outro section) and encodes them as one single video. The issue I have with the macros is that it uses the file name of the first video in the inputs. So it ends up using the file name of the intro video which is a generic name. They need to have a way where we can have a little more control.
I suppose I could copy/rename the intro video to a desired name before I encode and it would pick it up, but that seems to be a little bit of overkill.
The Macros are good, but they could use some enhancements I think.

Insert Hyperlink in Access Database (pyodbc)

Here is the situation: I'm 'having fun' really using Microsoft Access for the first time for small personnal project/tools ideas.
I don't know anything about VBA yet, and unless I can't do without it, I don't plan to learn it this time (already a lot else to cover).
So I tried to use Python to automatize the main table filling. I did find pyodbc package and succeeded to connect, read and write some data out of my database.
However, I wanted to experiment a little further, and one of the fields could contain hyperlinks (could be handled somewhere else in another script later, but I am curious about the functionality anyway)...
But I couldn't figure how to insert hyperlink data in the table. I only get the displayed text set, but not the target one.
Is this feasible using pyodbc or am I on the wrong track?
Thanks in advance!
Emmanuel
The hyperlink field in MS Access consists of three parts, separated by #:
display text # filename or target # location within the document
So an example of the data of a field can look like this:
StackOverflow#http://www.stackoverflow.com#
See the docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/access.application.hyperlinkpart
and samples here also: http://allenbrowne.com/casu-09.html

A Study on the Modification of PDF in nodejs

Project Environment
The environment we are currently developing is using Windows 10. nodejs 10.16.0, express web framework. The actual environment being deployed is the Linux Ubuntu server and the rest is the same.
What technology do you want to implement?
The technology that I want to implement is the information that I entered when I joined the membership. For example, I want to automatically put it in the input text box using my name, age, address, phone number, etc. so that the user only needs to fill in the remaining information in the PDF. (PDF is on some of the webpages.)
If all the information is entered, the PDF is saved and the document is sent to another vendor, which is the end.
Current Problems
We looked at about four days for PDFs, and we tried to create PDFs when we implemented the outline, structure, and code, just like it was on this site at https://web.archive.org/web/20141010035745/http://gnupdf.org/Introduction_to_PDF
However, most PDFs seem to be compressed into flatDecode rather than this simple. So I also looked at Data extraction from /Filter /FlateDecode PDF stream in PHP and tried to decompress it using QPDF.
Unzip it for now.Well, I thought it would be easy to find out the difference compared to the PDF without Kim after putting it in the first name.
However, there is too much difference even though only three characters are added... And the PDF structure itself is more difficult and complex to proceed with.
Note : https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf (PDF official document in English)
Is there a way to solve the problem now?
It sounds like you want to create a PDF from scratch and possibly extract data from it and you are finding this a more difficult prospect than you first imagined.
Check out my answer here on why PDF creation and reading is non-trivial and why you should reach for a tool you help you do this:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/53357682/1669243

Make an excel table from a PDF product catalog - Orange

I'm new to this forum and to Orange.
I don't really now Python at this point but am ready to learn.
However, before going further in this environment I would like to know if it can answer my needs !
What I am basically doing is "transforming" PDF product catalogues into Excel files that can be used by another software to create a database for another software.
I have tiles catalogues in PDF just like this one :
and turn it into this type of xls table : http://imgur.com/BtLBkOS
I basically need it to retrieve the article number, the colour, the size (e.g: 20x20). The G/B parts are completed manually after it has been done.
All catalogues are not the same so I sorted out some using pdftotext, RegEx with Notepad++
But I would like to know if this data mining solution could work it out ?
Orange does not support reading PDF files. You will have to use specialized utilities or program it yourself.

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