Save a Project as a Copy (After Effects Scripting)

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January 26, 2019
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I was wondering if there way any way to save a project as a copy through ExtendScript. I know that a project can be saved in this manner:

app.project.save(File(aep_path));

But this is not identical to saving a copy because then the project that's currently active in After Effects becomes whatever I just saved to, instead of staying at whatever it was previously.

Is there any way to get the exact same effect of "save a copy" through After Effects scripting? Thanks.

This is what I'm referring to; I want this functionality in scripting:

Is this possible? If so, how? I see no references to it in any of the After Effects scripting guides.

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Tomas Sinkunas

Legend

A quick search reveals a few useful topics:

Save as "Copy"

Save a Copy

"Save as a copy" script

johnt53984649Author

Inspiring

Although none of those solutions were quite what I was looking for, I did come up with a solution that works well enough for my purposes (the only caveat being that it assumes the original project was saved, which is okay in my situation).

var orig = app.project.file
aep_path = containingfolder + "\\aeps\\" + title;
app.project.save(File(aep_path));
app.open(orig) // open up the original template after saving

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matthias Stoll

Participant

Hi, thanks for your impulses. Is your script supposed to work like this? Because for me it doesn't. I am new to scripting - I am pretty advanced in expressions, so I am not a complete JavaScript idiot - But I find it very hard to find the correct commands for my tasks, as simple as they may be. Would you mind posting your actual working script so I can understand better how to set up the 'aep_path' variable so I can get it to work? Any ideas to my questions below will be much appreciated!!

All I want to make my script do is:

-Reduce the project to the selected comp

-Save is as a copy, prompt dialogue where to save it, use the Comps name String as Filename

-Return to the unreduced project (Better stay within the project an perform an Undo)

This is for interchanging assets between projects.

I know there is a Script called "Save Comp As Project", which appears to be great. But I don't need it's full functionality, and the 29$ seem a little exaggerated.

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