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JeffMurchison
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December 15, 2015
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Getting footage file paths from project file

  • December 15, 2015
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Maybe this isn't the best place to ask, but I'm curious if there is a way to get a list of all of the footage files in a project and list their file paths, using only the .aep project file.

My goal is to simply be able to take the project file and output a list of the footage files & their location on the disk.  While I've found this is possible using scripts or by writing a plugin (a little overkill for this I think), I'm trying to do this from outside of After Effects. Any help is appreciated.

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shachar carmiCommunity Expert
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December 15, 2015

well, there's no such API...

maybe if you saved the project to XML then that data would be available via

simple text parsing of the aep?

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JeffMurchisonAuthor
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December 15, 2015

Hmm, XML would probably work but then I'd have to save all the projects I want to do this to as XML which isn't ideal.

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Anonymous
December 16, 2015

You could also check out the AEGP plugin "ProjDumper" from the SDK, which access most data that is available in a project, including the file path of footage elements (although nothing is currently done with that info).

Of course this is a plugin and does not directly access the .aep file, but maybe that helps in what you want to do (or like one of the Adobe staff members put it some time ago here on the forum: "We don't support parsing the .aep file; that's why we provided a full-featured API.")

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