How to Trigger Action on "New Project" Open in After Effects using Python/ExtendScript

Question

We would like to trigger a copy action on "New Project" action in After Effects, be it from the File > New > New Project menu OR from the action called on "New File" click in the Shotgrid "Open..." menu. How can I do this using Python/ExtendScript? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mylenium · Answer

The only way would be to have a CEP panel checking these things, but ultimately as just explained in another post you'll run into all sorts of issues and AE will just crash because the event listeners run all the time and get in the way of other operations. The only way to do this safely is to reverse your logic - do everything from inside a conventional script and instruct users to not use the regular program functions.

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