Linus Kraemer
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Actually both of these suggestions are great, thank you Walter! One problem that I realised for what I’ve been looking for is that PNG sequences would cause problems because they’re always in their own folder, and the relinking only works when everything is in the same folder.
The XML idea is awesome! I did what you said. Opened the XML as text, did find replace on “/Users/” to “/bla/” and saved it again. Interestingly, that alone wasn’t enough, I just had to move the AE project file somewhere else, and then everything unlinked.
The placeholders idea would also work! I haven’t been able to find a script that would make all assets into placeholders, but when I tried doing it manually (just clicking on a load of assets and making them placeholders one at a time), when I relinked the first item, all the others relinked too.
Essentially the two options do the same thing, so I would love to have a script that creates all assets into placeholders. Anyone know if that exists? Been doing quite a bit off googling and haven’t found it. I know the script would use this though! FootageItem.replaceWithPlaceholder()
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Can’t do that, it’s all in different places on the machine.
Anyone have any thoughts on how to make a script for this?
I saw in the AE Scripting guide that there is an attribute called footageMissing, but it’s a read only attribute so perhaps that can’t be changed. I wonder if a script could be written that just changes the source to somewhere that doesn’t exist?? And that would then make everything missing? -
I thought that would be the solution too but that doesn’t do it either. I’m on AE 2019 on Windows and moving the AE project doesn’t unlink the footage.
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Good point, but the assets on the network are all nicely organised in the same place (they were collected properly!). So when I relink one of the files, all the rest will link up automatically.
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wow well I feel like I should’ve known that!!! So useful that you can alt drag within the project window!
Thanks for the speedy reply! I can start using it right away ????
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sorry meant this to come at the bottom of the thread….
I need to do something similar to this but want to replace a composition with another composition all from the project panel. Pretty sure there’s no way of doing this using the standard after effects tools so I wonder if there’s a script to do it.
The reason I need this is I have a composition that’s used 10 times in my project and I want to replace it with a new composition. And I have to do this a lot of times so the long ways of doing it aren’t ideal!
Anyone know of a script or some other way of doing it??
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I need to do something similar to this but want to replace a composition with another composition all from the project panel. Pretty sure there’s no way of doing this using the standard after effects tools so I wonder if there’s a script to do it.
The reason I need this is I have a composition that’s used 10 times in my project and I want to replace it with a new composition. And I have to do this a lot of times so the long ways of doing it aren’t ideal!
Anyone know of a script or some other way of doing it??