I work on windows which has a really low character file path limit (~256 characters i think). If I am sending a project to another artist and I do a collect files, it puts all the assets into a folder structure similar to how it is structured on my computer, and if I have dragged in other projects into that project file, it keeps that folder structure too. So I end up with file paths that WAYYYYY exceed the windows limit, so when I go to zip the file, it always fails or it just doesn't tell me and I end up sending projects with tons of assets missing.
In premiere when you media manage a project (essentially the same thing as doing a collect files in AE) It dumps all the assets for that file into one simple folder. It doesnt organize them at all, its just a folder with images, videos, vectors, audio... everything you've used in the project all litterally dumped in one folder. Its ugly as hell but for systems with character limits its kind of perfect and would be really useful for me. Does anyone know of a script that will allow you to essentially consolidate all the assets in the AE project into one folder and have it not create all the other folders that the standard collect files creates? I would call the script something like "Scoop 'n Dump" if I knew how to make scripts. I know you can go into your windows system files and essentially hack the programming to change the limit for file path characters, but that just seems sketchy to me and would prefer not to do that. I know premiere does it this way, so why can't AE? I hope this makes sense. Any help would be amazing. I would pay someone to make this script, for real.
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