Replacing several items at once form bin to comp.

[Dan Ebberts]

This should take the selected bin items (in the order they appear in the bin) and use them to replace the sources of the selected layers (in the order that the layers were selected):


{
var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var myItems = app.project.selection;
var myLayers = myComp.selectedLayers;
if (myLayers.length == myItems.length){
for (var i = 0; i < myLayers.length; i++){
myLayers[i].replaceSource(myItems[i],false);
}
}else{
alert("Number of selected layers and bin items does't match.");
}
}


Dan

[Trace Burroughs]

Dan,

Thank you. How do I take that text and make a script application that I put in the script folder in the AE folder in Applications?

Do I just take the text file and add a .jsx extension to it and add it to the script folder when AE isn’t open?

Thanks

Trace

Trace Burroughs
LME COLLECTIONS
lme-collections.com

[Dan Ebberts]

You can just save it somewhere with a .jsx extension, then

File>Scripts>Run Script File (navigate to where you saved it)

Dan

[Trace Burroughs]

Dan,

Thank you. When I went to open the script I got this error message.

Unable to execute script at line 4. null is not an object.

Trace Burroughs
LME COLLECTIONS
lme-collections.com

[Dan Ebberts]

My guess is that you selected the layers first and then the bin items. Try it the other way.

Dan

[Trace Burroughs]

Beautiful!!!! Thank you!!

Trace

Trace Burroughs
LME COLLECTIONS
lme-collections.com

[Trace Burroughs]

Dan,

1) I hope I’m not over staying my welcome, but do you have a script for the following. I select several comps within a project and the script saves each comp as a project and collects all the need files, creates a folder for it and that all goes into another folder that will contain all the project folders and content created…..so basically it’s the collect files function that Ae already has but batch processing several comps selected within a project.

2.) Also is there a script where you select several comps with in a project and universally change the comp settings and all its variables for all those selected comps.

Thanks Trace

Trace Burroughs
LME COLLECTIONS
lme-collections.com