Return-Path: Received: from atl4mhob08.myregisteredsite.com ([209.17.115.46] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 4883213 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:47:20 +0200 Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com (mail.networksolutionsemail.com [205.178.146.50]) by atl4mhob08.myregisteredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9Q1nwcX032259 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:49:58 -0400 Received: from webmail58 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailpod.hostingplatform.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id q9Q1nwSD029359 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:49:58 -0400 Received: from 59.167.240.84 (chris@chriszwar.com [59.167.240.84]) by webmail58 (Netsol 11.2.30) with WEBMAIL id 29355; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:49:58 +0000 From: "Chris Zwar" To: "After Effects Mail List" Importance: Normal Sensitivity: Normal Message-ID: X-Mailer: Network Solutions Webmail, Build 11.2.30 X-Originating-IP: [59.167.240.84] X-Forwarded-For: [(null)] X-Authenticated-UID: chris@chriszwar.com Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:49:58 +0000 Subject: Re: [AE] a question from the After Effects team about audio output MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Jonathan Penzner [mailto:sureal@charter.net] I also find it inconvenient that names get incremented when duping layers= or comps. Oooooh I love this. I often use expressions that look at the last number= in the composition name, usually to automate some rather dull process. = I rely on the fact that when I duplicate a composition, After Effects inc= rements any number at the end. Setting up some projects with expressions= driven by the composition number means that I can output a new version s= imply by duplicating a comp. One example is supers - if I have a long list of text supers (for example= , names) then I can simply copy & paste all of the text into a precomp (w= hich is very quick), then use that in a main composition with an expressi= on driven by the last number of the name. Doesn't matter if I have 10, 1= 00, or 1000 individual versions to output, all I have to do is duplicate = the composition and everything updates automatically. I can do this in s= econds, rather than minutes. Huge time saver, and more importantly, a sa= nity-saver. Please don't change this! (sorry that we're veering off-topic) -Chris