Saving as TIF, how to set "Layer Compression" default as ZIP?

I'm not sure what you mean by "use a script to default to the required ZIP and other save options, including using the current path and filename." I'm a photographer, not a computer scientist 😅

By @mlphoto.raw

You don't have to be a computer scientist to save and run a script (and photographers can certainly create scripts without being computer scientists).

Here is the script code to Save As a layered ZIP TIFF – see if it works for you. The confirmation to overwrite an existing file can be removed if you don't wish to be warned. Unsaved files will be prompted to set a save location and will use the current document name.

/*
Save As ZIP TIFF.jsx
v1.1b, 4th December 2023, Stephen Marsh
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/saving-as-tif-how-to-set-default-as-zip/td-p/14273504
*/

#target photoshop

if (app.documents.length) {

    (function () {

        // Save and set the dialog display settings
        var savedDisplayDialogs = app.displayDialogs;
        app.displayDialogs = DialogModes.NO;

        try {
            // Use a custom simplified save process for previously saved files
            activeDocument.path;
            var docPath = activeDocument.path.fsName;
            var docName = activeDocument.name.replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '');
            var saveFileTIFF = new File(docPath + '/' + docName + '.tif');

            if (saveFileTIFF.exists) {
                // true = 'No' as default active button
                if (!confirm("The file '" + docName + ".tif' exists, overwrite: Yes or No?", false))
                    return;
            }
            // Use true to Save As a Copy, false to Save As
            saveTIFF(saveFileTIFF, false);

        } catch (e) {
            // Use the standard Save As dialog for unsaved documents
            var idsave = stringIDToTypeID("save");
            var desc392 = new ActionDescriptor();
            var idas = stringIDToTypeID("as");
            var desc393 = new ActionDescriptor();
            var idbyteOrder = stringIDToTypeID("byteOrder");
            var idplatform = stringIDToTypeID("platform");
            var idIBMPC = stringIDToTypeID("IBMPC");
            desc393.putEnumerated(idbyteOrder, idplatform, idIBMPC);
            var idencoding = stringIDToTypeID("encoding");
            var idencoding = stringIDToTypeID("encoding");
            var idzip = stringIDToTypeID("zip");
            desc393.putEnumerated(idencoding, idencoding, idzip);
            var idsaveTransparency = stringIDToTypeID("saveTransparency");
            desc393.putBoolean(idsaveTransparency, true);
            var idlayerCompression = stringIDToTypeID("layerCompression");
            var idencoding = stringIDToTypeID("encoding");
            var idzip = stringIDToTypeID("zip");
            desc393.putEnumerated(idlayerCompression, idencoding, idzip);
            var idTIFF = stringIDToTypeID("TIFF");
            desc392.putObject(idas, idTIFF, desc393);
            var idin = stringIDToTypeID("in");
            desc392.putPath(idin, new File("~/Documents/" + activeDocument.name.replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '')));
            var iddocumentID = stringIDToTypeID("documentID");
            desc392.putInteger(iddocumentID, 986);
            var idlowerCase = stringIDToTypeID("lowerCase");
            desc392.putBoolean(idlowerCase, true);
            executeAction(idsave, desc392, DialogModes.ALL);
        }

        app.displayDialogs = savedDisplayDialogs;

    }());

} else {
    alert('A document must be open to run this script...');
}


function saveTIFF(saveFileTIFF, aCopy) {
    tiffSaveOptions = new TiffSaveOptions();
    tiffSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
    // ByteOrder.MACOS or ByteOrder.IBM
    tiffSaveOptions.byteOrder = ByteOrder.IBM;
    tiffSaveOptions.transparency = true;
    tiffSaveOptions.layers = true;
    tiffSaveOptions.layerCompression = LayerCompression.ZIP;
    tiffSaveOptions.interleaveChannels = true;
    tiffSaveOptions.alphaChannels = true;
    tiffSaveOptions.annotations = true;
    tiffSaveOptions.spotColors = true;
    tiffSaveOptions.saveImagePyramid = false;
    // NONE | JPEG | TIFFLZW | TIFFZIP
    tiffSaveOptions.imageCompression = TIFFEncoding.TIFFZIP;
    activeDocument.saveAs(saveFileTIFF, tiffSaveOptions, aCopy, Extension.LOWERCASE);
}

1. Copy the code text to the clipboard
2. Open a new blank file in a plain-text editor (not in a word processor)
3. Paste the code in
4. Save as a plain text format file – .txt
5. Rename the saved file extension from .txt to .jsx
6. Install or browse to the .jsx file to run (see below)

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html

OK, but how long does the save take?