Houdini to After Effects animation exporter thingy

Hacky_Houdini_to_AfterEffects.py

# first hacky attempt at getting camera / object animations into AE from Houdini.
# Stick this on a tool button on a shelf. Note the hard-coding below (!)
# A file will be created in your home folder; open it, copy to the clipboard, then go to AE and paste onto the cam/null of your choice


import hou

h = hou.node("/obj/geo1")
filename = "testfile.txt"
startFrame = 0
endFrame = 300
scale = 100.0


with open(filename,"w") as ff:
    ff.write("Adobe After Effects 8.0 Keyframe Data\n\n")
    ff.write("\tUnits Per Second\t25\n")
    ff.write("\tSource Width\t1920\n")
    ff.write("\tSource Height\t804\n")
    ff.write("\tSource Pixel Aspect Ratio\t1\n")
    ff.write("\tComp Pixel Aspect Ratio\t1\n")
   
    # do the orientation:
    
    ff.write("\nTransform\tOrientation\n")
    ff.write("\tFrame\tX degrees\t\n")
     
    for theFrame in range (startFrame,endFrame):
        x = h.worldTransformAtTime(hou.frameToTime(theFrame))
        xform = x.extractRotates('srt','zyx',hou.Vector3())
        ff.write("\t"+str(theFrame)+"\t"+str(xform[0])+"\t"+str(-xform[1])+"\t"+str(-xform[2])+"\n")

    
    # do the positions:
    
    ff.write("\nTransform\tPosition\n")
    ff.write("\tFrame\tX pixels\tY pixels\tZ pixels\n")
     
    for theFrame in range (startFrame,endFrame):
        x = h.worldTransformAtTime(hou.frameToTime(theFrame))
        xform = x.extractTranslates('srt')
        ff.write("\t"+str(theFrame)+"\t"+str(xform[0]*scale)+"\t"+str(-xform[1]*scale)+"\t"+str(-xform[2]*scale)+"\n")

    ff.write("\nEnd of Keyframe Data\n")