filter/select ALL comps in Project window

[Walter Soyka]

[Marc Nibor] “or any other possibility to select all comps?”

Here’s a simple script to select all comps within a selection (if there are items selected in the project panel) or all comps within a project (if no items are selected in the project panel):

// simple script to select all comps in a selection or project

if (app.project.selection.length > 0) {
var selection = app.project.selection;
for (var i = 0; i < selection.length; i++) {
if (selection[i] instanceof CompItem) selection[i].selected = true
else selection[i].selected = false;
}

}
else if (app.project.items.length > 0){
for (var i = 1; i <= app.project.items.length; i++) {
if (app.project.items[i] instanceof CompItem) app.project.items[i].selected = true
else app.project.items[i].selected = false;
}
}


Copy and paste this into a text editor and save as a .jsx file. Put it in your scripts folder and run it from within Ae.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
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[Marc Nibor]

Walter, this works perfect! It’s exactly what I was hoping for and it’s a huge timesaver.

Thank you so much for writing this!