• Adobe After Effects

  Output File Name Templates

  Posted by Jason Hearne on March 27, 2013 at 7:05 pm

  I am wondering if there is any way Information can be stripped out of a compName?

  Currently I have several comps I want to keep in order that read 001_PROFullScreen_Kirk, 002_PROFullscreen_Abe, etc.

  When I render them, I don’t want the ###_ preceding the comp name.

  Is this possible with something to the effect of —> [-###][compName].[fileExtension] (this is just an example, in theory this is what I want it to do.)

  Jason Hearne
  GSN
  Senior Animator Designer

  Paul Roper replied 13 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Paul Roper

  March 28, 2013 at 11:39 am

  There may be a script to do something like this on aescripts.com – I don’t know of one, but it’s a good place to start.

  Alternatively, just render them as-is, and use a program such as Automator (on a Mac) to batch-rename them (you can easily set it to do a find-replace – set it find 002_ and replace it with nothing).

  – Paul

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