[Danyl Bernard]

Hi,

It’s been a while, but this worked great.

Thank you

[Danyl Bernard]

I’m trying something similar with having the checking script creating an alert box that AHK waits for, but it’s still pretty buggy.

Thanks for the help

[Danyl Bernard]

It’s a jsxbin.

I’m using AHK to handle the first script because it uses a GUI, and doesn’t have a headless mode. The script takes anywhere from 5 to 120 seconds to run, and I don’t want to set a delay of 2 minutes before each time AHK runs my script (it’s a loop of about 60 projects which will delay it significantly).

I do know that the comp FINAL 2 will be the last one the jsxbin script creates

[Danyl Bernard]

Thank you. I’m still fairly new to scripting and programming in general, so I’m working off other bits of after effects scripts and JavaScript that I find.

I figured an endless loop would cause issues. Is there a way to run a loop every 3 seconds so as to prevent that freeze from happening?

My scenario is like this. I have a third party script running in AE creating comps. Then I have a second script that I need to run after the first one is finished.

The first script is one I bought, and the second is one I made, so I can’t combine the two.

My solution was to run a loop at the beginning of my script, checking if the last comp which I know will be named FINAL 2 exists, and only then running the rest of the script

I should add that the third party script has a UI, and my script is running through a command prompt with AHK. The issue is, that AHK runs my script before the first one has a chance to finish, so I need some sort of indicator that the first script is done

[Danyl Bernard]

Can the AEP already exist in the watch folder, and then after the script creates the comp and saves the project, the watch folder will take it from there?

[Danyl Bernard]

Where is this script created, in After Effects or Media Encoder? I’m not familiar with how a script in Encoder would work (where to place it etc.)

[Danyl Bernard]

How do you create such a setup with a .aep file in a watch folder, that every time a comp is created in the root folder, it is automatically rendered in AME?

[Danyl Bernard]

Never mind, I was adding it in the wrong place

Thank you so much!

[Danyl Bernard]

Interesting. It seems like it’s still going through the original array, and it ends up adding the music track under every original layer

Any suggestions?

Thanks again

[Danyl Bernard]

Yep, works perfectly now. Thank you so much!

If I could pick your brain one last time, I have a music track in the project bin, that I’d like to add to all of the comps.

Previously, I was using an expression that looped through the bin and added the track to the bottom of the open comp

My question is twofold. One, is it possible to loop through the array and add it to all of the comps?

Two, and more difficult. Can the music track have a simple fade expression based on the comp duration, that fades the sound 3 seconds before each comp ends?

Thank you once again

var footageName = "myMusicTrack.wav";
var myProject = app.project;

// find the footage item
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);
}

// this moves the newly added layer to the bottom of the panel
var activeItem = app.project.activeItem;
var activeLayers=activeItem.layers;
for(i=1;i<=activeLayers.length;i++){
if(app.project.activeItem.layer(i).selected){
app.project.activeItem.layer(i).moveToEnd();
};

};