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  cs6 scripting – Set proxy path – simple scripting pointers needed

  Posted by Adam Seeley on September 22, 2013 at 5:12 pm

  Hi,

  I’m looking for a bit of easy (when you know how) scripting help. I can script, just not inside AE very well yet.

  I’m trying to find some bits of script to cobble together to make the script I really want, but it’s taking too long to find what I need and I’m heading down the road of diminishing returns for the time I’ll save before it’s just quicker to do it manually. Sound familiar?

  I have a large 3d job and when I render my frames, I get a post-render script to create proxies on the fly (saves processing thousands of frames afterwards to create proxy files).

  After I import my renders into AE, I would just like to select the footage items I want and run a script to link them to their proxies which are in a mirrored folder structure.

  I just need 4 elements to set it up.

  1. Loop through the selected footage items.
  2. Read the filename of the footage item.
  3. Replace a part of the filename with another string
  4. Set Proxy using the new path as the proxy source.

  Something like this in my VB/Softimage land.

  for each oObj in Selection
  strFilePath=oObj.filepath
  strFilePathProxy=REN(strFilePath,”Renders”, “Renders_Proxies”)
  oObj.SetProxy (strFilePathProxy)
  next

  Any donations of coding snippets gratefully received Guv’nor.

  I will of course share the result.

  Many thanks,

  Adam.

  Adam Seeley replied 12 years, 7 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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