Move footage to folder

[SasiKumarVVS]

Hi all,     

    I'm new to After Effects Scripting. I have developed a script. In this script which moves images to Images folder and Compositions to Composition folder. When i run the script, only few images moves to images folder and few compositions moves to Composition folder. Others did not moved into folder. Could you please help me to improve this script?

var items = app.project.numItems;
    function getFolder(folderName) {
        var result = [];
        for (var i = 1; i <= app.project.numItems; i++) {
          if (app.project.item(i).name == folderName[0] && app.project.item(i) instanceof FolderItem){
            result.push(app.project.item(i));
          }
        if (app.project.item(i).name == folderName[1] && app.project.item(i) instanceof FolderItem) {
            result.push(app.project.item(i));
          }
        }
        return result;
      }
    var folderNames = ["Images","Composition"];
      var folders = getFolder(folderNames);
     var searchResult = [];
    function search (para) {
        for(var j = 0;j < para.length; j++)
        for (var i=0; i< folders.length; i++)
        if (folders.name == para) {
            searchResult.push(folders);
        }
    }
    search(folderNames);
    for(var i = 1; i <= app.project.numItems; i++) {
        if(app.project.item(i).typeName == "Footage") {
                app.project.item(i).parentFolder = searchResult[0];
            }
         if(app.project.item(i).typeName == "Composition") {
                app.project.item(i).parentFolder = searchResult[1];
            }
    }

Regards,

Sasikumar

[UQg · Accepted solution]

Hard to track down the error.

You can adapt from this, it should work:

function getItemByTypeAndName(typeName, name){
    var i, item;
    for (i=1; i<=app.project.numItems; i++){
        item = app.project.item(i);
        if (item.typeName===typeName && item.name===name) return item;
        };
    return null;
    };
function isImageItem(footage){
    // Might need some better tracking...
    return footage.mainSource instanceof FileSource && footage.mainSource.isStill;
    };
//==========================================
var compsFolderName = "Compositions";
var imagesFolderName = "Images";
var compsFolder = null;
var imagesFolder = null;
function cleanProject(){
    if (!compsFolder){
        // If compsFolder has been removed since last time, try to see if there is one, else create brand new
        compsFolder = getItemByTypeAndName("Folder", compsFolderName) || app.project.items.addFolder(compsFolderName);
        };
    if (!imagesFolder){
        // Same
        imagesFolder = getItemByTypeAndName("Folder", imagesFolderName) || app.project.items.addFolder(imagesFolderName);
        };
    var comps = [];
    var images = [];
    var i, item;
    for (i=1; i<=app.project.numItems; i++){
        item = app.project.item(i);
        if (item.typeName === "Composition"){
            if (item.parentFolder !== compsFolder){
                comps.push(item);
                };
            }
        else if (item.typeName === "Footage"){
            if (isImageItem(item)){
                if (item.parentFolder !== imagesFolder){
                    images.push(item);
                    };
                };
            };
        };
    var n;
    for (n=0; n<comps.length; n++) comps.parentFolder = compsFolder;
    for (n=0; n<images.length; n++) images.parentFolder = imagesFolder;
    };
//==========================================
cleanProject();

Xavier

[Tomas Sinkunas]

UQg​, a side note here: typeName is different based on AE language, so you cannot rely on it to check if an item is Composition, Folder, Footage or whatever, since it will be different in another AE language ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[UQg]

Tomas Sinkunas​ Thx, about time for me to know.

I dont get the point of localizing this, seriously.... What does it bring ???

[Tomas Sinkunas]

No idea Xavier, but I burnet so bad because of this localisation in my compCode tool.

Anyways, Composition and Folder items would return typeNames in EN and RU localisations respectively:

Composition - Композиция;

Folder - Папка;

Life would have been so much easier if typeName wasn't localised 😕

Now back on topic. To fix the code to work on any language, my approach would be to substitute getItemByTypeAndName() function with this one:

function getItemByInstanceAndName(instanceToMatch, name) {
    var item;
    for (var i = 1, il = app.project.numItems; i <= il; i++) {
        item = app.project.item(i);
        if (item instanceof instanceToMatch && item.name === name) {
            return item;
        }
    }
    return null;
}

and search for the item based on its instance name: getItemByInstanceAndName(CompItem, "composition name")