Set beginning or end of work area to current time

[Michael Szalapski]

There is a keyboard command to set the beginning of the work area (b) and there is a keyboard command to set the end (n). I don’t know if that helps you find the scripting command, but pressing home b end n is pretty quick if you’re doing it by hand. 🙂

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[Phil Largilliere]

Thank you. I know the shorcuts, I actually use them, but I need to do this on a really big number of projects and comps, that’s why I’m looking for a script.

[John Cuevas]

It works perfectly, but I want exactly the opposite… I have thousands of comps to check, and I need that the work area starts at the first frame, and ends at the last for auto rendering.

If I understand, you want to make sure that instead of the “work area” you want the render area to be set to the full length of the comp? If so, you can do that in “Render Settings”, just switch the time span from “work area only” to “Length of Comp” and then make that a template.

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[Walter Soyka]

John’s solution is perfect for you here — tell the renderer to render the whole comp, not just the work area.

If you really want to set this via scripting, set the workAreaStart and workAreaDuration attributes of each CompItem.

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[Kevyn Tuleu dourado]

I was looking for the same thing, and I found this:

app.project.item(1).workAreaStart = 0; //in seconds
app.project.item(1).workAreaDuration = 5; //in seconds

I found this here:
https://blogs.adobe.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/48/files/2012/06/After-Effects-CS6-Scripting-Guide.pdf?file=2012/06/After-Effects-CS6-Scripting-Guide.pdf

And as this question can help more people I posted here ????

I think it should help you!
Kevyn Tuleu Dourado

(Sorry for the bad english)