[Vahur Kuusk]

Thank you Tomas, that worked perfectly.
.toString() is what I missed.

[Vahur Kuusk]

I am adding it directly into the Kbar as a scriptlet. I press the custom button and it start rendering.

[Vahur Kuusk]

Thank you, Dan.

For some reason, I still got an “directory does not exist” error when trying
myFootage.mainSource.path;

However I managed to solve it temporarily using file name substrings.

This is not ideal, because I can only use it on this project, but if there is a way to make it not dependent on substrings, I am all ears.

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Also, why I had to set second item (2) for “myFootage” is beyond me, because in the project bin the footage is clearly first from top. But this is the only way I got the script to run. Weird.

var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var myFootage = app.project.item(2);
var myFolder = myFootage.mainSource.file;
var myLoc = myFolder.path.substring(0,49);
var rq = app.project.renderQueue;
var render = rq.items.add(myComp);

render.outputModules[1].file = new File(myLoc + "/" + myComp.name + ".mp4");
app.project.renderQueue.render()

[Vahur Kuusk]

Here’s what I have now. It gets me to render queue with correct file name, however the folder is still messed up. When I press render AE says:
“The directory originally specified in the selected output module no longer exists.”

Clearly I’ve missed something. Any help is appreciated.

var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var myFootage = app.project.item(1);
var myFolder = myFootage.parentFolder.path;
var rq = app.project.renderQueue;
var render = rq.items.add(myComp);

render.outputModules[1].file = new File(myFolder + "/" + myComp.name + "[DRAFT].mp4");