Altering .aep file without having it open and load script?

[Frank Brown]

Possibly no.
But from your mind where you want to execute .jsx then?

[Todd Kopriva]

No, but you can operate on the text-based representation of the project file that pt_OpenSesame creates with a script, a text editor, or whatever you like.

https://aescripts.com/pt_opensesame/

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