| I would not condone doing that. The whole reason I wrote the Batch Search and Replace Paths scripts is to do it properly. Because the AE xml file is mostly binary encoding the odds that a general text and replace will match something in the binary encoding is high. My script properly parses the XML and only does the search and replace on the footage paths and nothing else. Hence the name. ;-) It will also batch search and replace a folder full of project files that don't need to be in the XML format already so that alone will save you time over doing it in a text editor. It will also give you a report on what it searched and replaced so you can check it to make sure things got done the way you expected them to, in a text editor you would need to use the force.
If the project has jpg's and needs to be replaced with .r3d files all you need to do is search for .jpg and replace with .r3d
-Lloyd On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Phil Spitler <phil@bonfirelabs.com> wrote:
You can also save the AE file as xml then do a "search and replace" in your favorite text editor.
This will can swap the jpg to RAW but you probably cannot change the interpretation.
Phil
On Feb 16, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote:
David,
So it he would need to import all the raw files, then run the script to swap jpg’s for RAW? Does it work off the filename in AE?
stephen van vuuren
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From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of David Torno
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [AE] Relink files batch/script
I may have something that could work, It would need to be modified for file paths though. It currently swaps mov layer timeline layers for r3d equivalents, so all files would need to be in the AE project window to begin with.
David Torno
Visual Effects Artist & Supervisor "The most useless day is that in which we do not laugh"
I have a client that has a project with several thousand JPG images. They want to relink to the raw versions of those files. These are not image sequences. Just a huge number of stills – all with different varying interpret image settings, so scripts like Immigration and Batch replace don’t appear to work.
Is manual one at a time the only solution?
stephen van vuuren
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
–Stanley Kubrick
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