Displaying file path as text

[Arivl]

I've borrowed Dan Ebberts's clip name expression which works great, of course,

http://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/source-name.html

however, I'm looking to add some more information to the clip, namely the file path (directory) including the drive name, and the date modified or created.  Can AE access this information?  If so, how?

Thanks for your help!

Cheers,

Ari

[Dan Ebberts]

The file path isn't accessible to expressions, so you couldn't wire up something like my example that would automatically display the path of the current visible layer.

You could do something similar with a script, but it wouldn't be "live". That is, if you changed your comp, you'd have to run the script again. A script does have access to everything that would be necessary to figure out the file path of the currently visible footage item. It wouldn't be nearly as simple as the expression, but certainly doable.

Dan