Creating Multiple Comps

[Walter Soyka]

[Spencer Tycksen] “I have a large list of clips in my project window that need no editing, only export… As I drag and drop them onto the comps button to turn them into compositions, AE renames them, by adding a “2” after them, probably so as to differentiate them from the clips in the project pane. Is there a way to make it so that when I drop them in that the name doesn’t change, but remains the same?”

If you’re not going to do anything to the clips, you don’t need to put them in comps in the first place. You can select the footage items and add them directly to the Render Queue (although I would wonder why you’d bother using AE for this at all).

If you do really need them in comps, you can use Christopher Green’s very nice Project Items Renamer script [link] to do a search for ” 2″ and a replace with “” (blank).

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Walter Soyka
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[Spencer Tycksen]

Thanks for the response. When I dragged them directly into the render queue, I got the same result, as far as renaming goes. I needed to export the clips as mp3s, and in my novice ways, this is the best way I knew how to do that.

[Walter Soyka]

You could bring the clips into Adobe Media Encoder and make your MP3s from there.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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