Thanks for sharing David!

David is right. When I import a project to another and finished my comp fixing and placing the imported stuff, I select my essential comps and use "reduce project", then I "consolidate all footage" and then I organize my assets in the project panel - usually manually but David also created an organize script for this (Ae scripts has also tool for that). Now we have another rendition to the organize process - ConSOLIDator :)

 

On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 at 7:52 David Torno <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Jonathan,

 

That is possible, but After Effects already handles duplicate footage with the Consolidate All Footage menu command. Far more efficient than a script.

 

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On Nov 13, 2017, at 4:40 PM, Jonathan Penzner <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Absolutely agree. And something I never would have dreamed of but incredibly useful. When dealing with projects inside of projects, you may also find yourself with duplicates of PNGs, video, PSD files, etc. Is there a possibility to do something similar in this situation? Perhaps at least a script that would flag the duplicates?

 

Jonathan

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On Nov 13, 2017, at 3:59 PM, Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

 

This makes me very happy!  In our environment we’re often importing one AE project into another and I HATE having multiple solids folders…

 

On 14 Nov 2017, at 10:24 am, David Torno <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

 

Thank you Roei, Tim, and Jim. Glad you have a use for it. Hope it makes projects more manageable for you.

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On Nov 13, 2017, at 11:11 AM, Roei Tzoref <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Thanks David, you are a trooper.

 

I still use the organize scripts on occasion. 

 

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Jim Curtis <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

This should be very useful, as I do this the hard way on most of my projects and on those I inherit.  

 

Thanks for making it and sharing it, David.  That’s very kind, and much appreciated.

 

 

Jim C.

 

 

 

On Nov 13, 2017, at 12:37 PM, David Torno <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

 

Hi all, just wanted to share a link to a new After Effects utility script that I released this morning. It's called conSOLIDator, and will conSOLIDate all your project Solids and Nulls to as few as possible. It's also open-source, so you can view the code. Enjoy.

 

https://www.provideocoalition.com/consolidator/

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