How to append version to Render items automatically?

Often times, we need to append the latest version to a new render. Maybe its the latest version for today, or reflecting the version from the project.

For example, using the [projectName].[fileExtension] template, you get:

• ProjectName_v001.aep >> ProjectName_v001.mov

However, often we have many comps inside the same AEP which all need to have the version appended to the end. Creating [projectName]_[compName] places the version INSIDE the filename, and not at the end. This results in ProjectName_v001_CompName.mov. The only way to put the version at the end is manually.

What would be great, is some way to append the project version to the END of the string. Even an incremental version which reads other files in the output folder and goes up 1 version. For example something like [projectVersion] or [version] or [v###].

Is there some way to approach this that I’m not considering, or some way to create incremental numbers at the end of the string?