• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Script to make new folders in the finder ?

  Posted by Daniel Crooks on September 11, 2009 at 7:29 am

  hi

  I have a script that is setting up a stack of comps and then queing them to be rendered. Normally i’d be ok to render 30 or so movies into a folder but the problem is I now want to use DPX sequences instead of quicktime movies. each of the sequences are 20000+ frames so I need to put each sequence into it’s own folder. I can’t work out a way for the script to create a new folder for the render location filepath. I tried simply adding it into the output filepath but of course came back with an error saying that folder doesn’t exist. Is it even possible to create/delete folders via the script ?

  cheers../daniel

  Dan Ebberts replied 16 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
• 6 Replies

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  Dan Ebberts

  September 11, 2009 at 11:34 am

  You should take a look at the Folder object constructor section in Adobe’s JavaScript Tools Guide, but basically it’s like this:

  myFolder = new Folder (theFolderPath);

  Dan
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  Daniel Crooks

  September 14, 2009 at 11:44 am

  hi Dan

  thanks for pointing me onto the Javascript Tools Guide, I’ve been plodding along with the After Effects scripting guide which is a bit thin on the basics. All up running sweetly now.

  cheers../ Daniel
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  Adam Ghering

  April 18, 2010 at 2:19 am

  Ok so I have tried numerous ways to create a folder on the drive with no luck…every time I use the examples that people have posted it doesn’t work. I have tried your above examples but I still have no luck. this is what I have tried

  myfolder = new File(“c:\\Newfolder\\”);

  didn’t work so I found a command in the java script toolkit and tried this

  Folder.create(“c:\\Newfolder\\”);

  this gives the error that Folder.create is undefined so I tried this

  myfolder = new File(“c:\\Newfolder\\”);
  Folder.create(myfolder);

  still no luck

  also
  myfolder = Folder.create(“c:\\Newfolder\\”);

  some of the examples seem to run without errors but there is no folder created in the directory.

  What am I missing.
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  Dan Ebberts

  April 18, 2010 at 1:51 pm

  Try it this way:

  var myFolder = new Folder(“/c/Newfolder”);
  myFolder.create();

  Dan
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  Adam Ghering

  May 19, 2010 at 11:56 pm

  Thank you Dan…that worked

  What about creating a wildcard for looking for a script like

  /c/user/*.jsx

  and having the script return whatever it .jsx it finds there.

  thanks,
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  Dan Ebberts

  May 20, 2010 at 12:04 am

  Try this:

  var myFiles = myFolder.getFiles(“*.jsx”);

  Dan

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