AECOLLADA is a plugin for After Effects CS3/CS4, CS5/5.5 and CS6 designed to read and write motion data in the Collada 1.4.1 file format.  Its main purpose is to share animation data between After Effects and general 3D production software.  The plugin has been tested with Collada files generated from 3DSMax, Daz Studio, Lightwave3D, Maya and trueSpace.

Features:

• import and export collada 1.4.1 format files

• light color animation

• spot light angle animation

• camera field of view animation

• import geometry transformations as nulls

• import very simple geometry as footage layers - new in version 1.1x(experimental)

• import skeleton joints as nulls

• the latest version has been tested with After Effects CS3, CS5.5 and CS6 - windows xp, vista and 7.  The new installer does not assume that the users "Administrator" and "User" exist on the users system.

• version 1.1x has improved UI handling, limited geometry support and will create footage items from the collada file image tags

• automatic creation of 2d nulls through expressions

• export imported joints as nulls or skeleton joints

• can be used to transfer Daz Studio skeletons to older Lightwave versions

• Feb 2012 - separate installers for each version(CS3,CS4,CS5,CS5.5)(CS6)

• Oct 2012 - fixed text layer export bug

• Nov 2012 - version 1.2 will export solid and footage layers as geometry.  Import time precision has been improved so it will work better with fractional frame rates.  The installer is improved and the script based ui is more reliable.  Export is compatible with Blender 3D rotation imports.  (Bug fixed) Can open After Effects by double clicking a file and the plugin will still load.