What It Does
Cavalry Importer was a beta plugin that bridged Cavalry, a procedural motion design application, with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. It worked similarly to a motion graphics template: you’d build assets in Cavalry, import them into the plugin’s library, and then edit certain parameters and render them directly inside your editing or compositing application.
Note: this product has been discontinued and is no longer available for download or use.
Key Features
Asset library with categories and tags. Imported Cavalry projects were stored in a local library, organized by category and tags so you could find and reuse assets across projects.
Editable parameters. Within Premiere Pro or After Effects, you could modify a limited set of attributes: colors, color arrays, text content, value behaviors, and images (via the image shader). Unsupported attributes could be made editable by linking them to a value behavior inside Cavalry first.
Direct rendering. Once parameters were adjusted, you could render the Cavalry output without leaving Premiere Pro or After Effects.
Portable library. The project database was stored locally and could be transferred between machines by copying the db folder.
Who It’s For
The plugin was aimed at motion designers and editors who used Cavalry for procedural animation work and wanted to reuse those assets in Adobe applications without rebuilding them as standard motion graphics templates. It required Cavalry to be installed and, as of version 0.9.4, required a paid Cavalry license.
Pricing
Cavalry Importer was free throughout its entire beta period. No paid version was ever released before it was discontinued.
