AECOLLADA is a plugin for After Effects CS3/CS4 and CS5/5.5 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 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

• tested with After Effects CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5 - windows xp, vista and 7

• version 1.1 is compatible with CS5/5.5 and adds an option to guess the frame rate

• 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)