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AE Global Renamer
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Rename items project wide in After Effects with as much ease or power as you want.
Features
- Unlimited Search/Replace pairs
- Add Suffix and Prefix
- Replace all at once or one item at a time
- Option to use Regular Expressions (Regex)
Scopes (Where you can rename items)
- Project panel item names
- Layer names project-wide
- Layer names in comps selected in project panel
- Selected layers in active comp
- Render queue footage paths
Special replace keywords:
- [layername] – will insert the layer name
- [layerindex] – will insert the layer index
- [compname] – will insert the comp name
- [projectname] – will insert the project name
- [date:E MMM dd, yyyy hh:mm a] – will insert the current date and time, this field uses the JavascriptToolbox.com date function which can be further customized. Please refer to their documentation for further reference: Date Formatting
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- AE Global Renamer UI
Version History
- 1.0 – Initial release – Jan 2012
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It would be great to also be able to select items with this as well–especially in conjunction with adding tags in Zorro.
A nice script and exactly what I was looking for to organize a hughe project with hundreds of comps.
Unfortunately, the scope “Layer names in comps selected in project panel” doesn’t work for me. Maybe it’s because I am running AE in german?
Sorry, just saw that the comment section is not for support issues. I wrote a mail @ support.
That is as beautiful as it’s going to come in handy.
thank you very much for shearing.
The above regexp was for transcoded R3D files only. This one will work with original R3D files and transcoded files:
([A-Za-z][0-9]{3})_([A-Za-z][0-9]{3})_([A-Za-z0-9 _]+)
Thanks for sharing these. Also in case anyone is wondering, the regex option uses the javascript regex engine in case you want to look up any reference online. There’s tons and tons of it since the web runs on javascript.
Awesome script. For those who work with R3D files a lot here is the regexp:
([A-Za-z][0-9]{3})_([A-Za-z][0-9]{3})_([A-Za-z0-9]+)
$1_$2_$3 returns the same name such as “A005_C004_1106S9″ (just to demonstrate the capture groups I’ve defined in the regexp)
$1_$2 returns a truncated shot number such as “A005_C004″
Feel free to move the parentheses around to create your own capture groups as needed.
Definitly nice and usefull Script!
I would just have one suggestion for improving it a tiny little bit.
What about an incremental number option? So to have a spaceholder for an incremental number you define like “Start with X and make steps of Y” and use it in the Search/Replace or Prefix/Suffix-Section like “(~Num)” or whatever. Not very hard to programm but it could be pretty usefull I think.
What do you think of that?
That’s a great suggestion. I will look into adding that feature.
I, too, would love an incremental numbering mode. Along with a setting for a minimum number of digits (padded with 0s) would be killer. Otherwise this script is super handy, thank you.
Great stuff! Thank you.