• Adobe After Effects

  Renaming items with scripts

  Posted by Vahab San on November 5, 2018 at 7:06 pm

  Hello everyone

  Here is the situation:
  – I have an expression in comp A referring to comp B;
  – If I change the name of comp B from the project panel manually, expressions will update automatically;
  – If I change the name of comp B from the project panel by scripts, expressions will not update.

  How can I rename the comp B with script and expressions update automatically?

  Cheers

  Vahab San replied 7 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  November 5, 2018 at 8:23 pm

  Try it like this:

  var originalCompName = "Comp B";
var newCompName = "Comp C";

  myComp.name = newCompName;
app.project.autoFixExpressions(originalCompName, newCompName);

  Walter Soyka
  Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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  Walter Soyka

  November 5, 2018 at 8:57 pm

  And to clarify what it does… autoFixExpressions(oldText, newText) will identify all broken expressions, do a search and replace within them (swapping out oldText for newText), and committing that change if it fixes the break.

  Walter Soyka
  Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
  @keenlive   |   RenderBreak [blog]   |   Profile [LinkedIn]
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  Vahab San

  November 6, 2018 at 8:07 am

  Walter

  Thank you very much.
  Worked perfectly. And again thank you for the explanation.

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