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Batch change sequence name language
Is there a quick way to rename/convert or amend all the sequence names in After effects from Simplified Chinese to English, without just going one at a time via google translate?
I’m an editor and not very familiar with After Effects, so apologies if this is an easy one.
I haven’t been able to find any help on this forum or on Adobe community support,
but honestly that could be because I’m not sure how to word the search.
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From within After Effects?
I am curious too. -
Fun challenge. I wrote a quick script to help. The script will let you rename all the comps in a selection, or if no selection is made, all the comps in the project.
When you run the script, it will create a dialog box with the names of all the comps it has found pre-loaded in the edit text box. When you click the “Rename” button, it will rename the comps with whatever the contents of the edit text box are.
The workflow I’d suggest is this:
- Run the script.
- Select all and copy the Simplified Chinese comp names out of the dialog box.
- Paste them into a Google Sheets spreadsheet, starting at cell A1.
- In cell B1, enter this formula: =googletranslate(A1, “zh”, “en”)
- Select from cell B1 down to the last cell that has a name in the A column, and Fill Down (Ctrl+D on a PC, Cmd+R on a Mac)
- Select and copy all the translated names
- Paste them back into the script’s dialog box.
- Click “Rename”
The script is attached.
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