• Adobe After Effects

  AE Scripting question – multiple activeItem’s

  Posted by Spencer Tweed on December 4, 2012 at 5:23 am

  I’m working on a script that takes the selected compositions and queues them, with a custom naming convention, multiple output modules, etc.

  I have the script basically doing all I want it to, but am not sure how to run it when the user selects multiple compositions. In other words I built the script around “app.project.activeItem” and it works great, but what the heck do I do if the user has multiple items selected in the project?

  Any help is really appreciated! Sorting these questions out in the AE Scripting Reference isn’t as easy as I thought it would be…

  – Spencer

  Spencer Tweed replied 13 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  December 4, 2012 at 4:36 pm

  app.project.selection gives you an array of all the selected items. You can loop through the array and process each comp (you probably want to make sure each selected item is a CompItem).

  Dan
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  Spencer Tweed

  December 5, 2012 at 2:45 am

  Aha, just what I was looking for! Thanks Dan, I won’t have time to get to it today but I’m sure that’ll do just the trick!

  My scripting adventure continues…

  – Spencer

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