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“Output To”
Hi there, I’ve around 150 comps that I want to batch render out. I have this all set up easily enough and I have made the comps into the filenames I want with a _v01 on the end. When I drag them into the render cue as a batch it’s all set up fine and so far so good. Then when I drag them in a second time I want the _v01 to become a _v02 and so on every time I render something new. The problem is that Ae seems to only want to add a _1 or _2 on the end of the _v01 so I end up with _v01_1, etc… Any ideas on how to set this up to do this properly in an incremental way that isn’t the Adobe standard?
Thanks in advance.
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I should also say that the “_v01” ending to the file is required by the media server it’s going onto so that formatting has to stay, you can just increase the number after the “v”.
Cheers
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This normally happens when the file already exists or the name was already used in the render queue. Did you try using Media Encoder or rendering to another directory?
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Hi there.
Yes I’m aware it does that and rendering to another directory isn’t what I need. I need it to be in the same directory but versioned up. I’m hoping there’s a automated way to achieve this like you would din say C4D. I can see on the “Output To” you can put in a bunch of strings, etc… for file naming but there isn’t one to apply to versioning as far as I can tell. I’m no good with code, but are there strings that can be put in that aren’t the ones listed that would work?
If I have to change the file names 150 times every time I want to make an update I’ll have to do that, just seems a bit tedious if there is a coding way around that is all.
Cheers
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A couple approaches:
1. Use a renaming tool in Ae to find “_v01” and replace with “_v02”. I still use Chris Green’s Project_Item_Renamer script for this, but there are also several on aescripts.com.
2. Duplicate the comp before you make your changes (Ae will then automatically rename MYGREATCOMP_v01 to MYGREATCOMP_v02 instead of MYGREATCOMP_v01_1). Personally I think this is better version control anyway, because your filenames will match your comp names.
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Ah lovely. Yes that is a couple of good ways to do it. Thanks v much.
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