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  Use array to add Item to Comp with specific words (Script)

  Posted by Scott Mcgee on February 4, 2018 at 10:28 pm

  I have a script that duplicates my Comps *5 no problem. Then a separate script I’m trying to join up to this.

  This script below works fine on it’s own, but what I want to do is create an array. [“BL”,”CF”,”LS”,”LV”,”TS”,”TW”] so that it can go through my project and it adds my footage to the corresponding comp.

  Footage Item “BL-ANIMATE”
  Comp1 “BL-BUMPER-IN”
  Comp2 “BL-BUMPER-OUT”

  I’m fine if it’s the activeItem, it’ll still be a timesaver if I can use the Array to use the string of the first two letters to know which footageitem to use, but I can’t seem to get the Array to work. I nearly got it to work, but it would only add the first item in the array and it also added the last item in the project (Which was a comp) three time. Bizarre.

  
  var footageName =”BL-ANIMATE”;
  var myProject = app.project;
  var myComp = myProject.activeItem;

  var myFootage = null;
  for (var i = 1; i <= myProject.numItems; i++){
  myFootage = myProject.item(i);
  if (myFootage.name == footageName && myFootage instanceof FootageItem){
  break;
  }
  }

  if (myFootage == null){
  alert (“Can’t find ” + footageName);
  }else{
  myComp.layers.add(myFootage);
  }

  Scott Mcgee replied 8 years, 6 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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