Boilerplate render pipeline

Question

I figured out the answer to the question that I added into the answer to the footage properties post.
With the goal of loading a video and processing it in batch, I had gotten this far:
var footage = app.project.importFile(new ImportOptions(File("c:\\some.avi")));
var comp = app.project.items.addComp(footage.name, footage.width, footage.height, footage.pixelAspect, footage.duration, footage.frameRate);
var layer = comp.layers.add(footage);
layer.openInViewer();
This loads footage, creates a suitable composition and adds the video to a layer. I wasn't sure how to then get it into the timeline. There is just on more step:
comp.openInViewer();
Do you know of a skeleton render pipeline either all extendscript, or perhaps a combination of aerender.exe and scripts. I think that scripts on redifinery, for example, expect there to be a human waving a mouse around who then starts the script. I would to achieve this:
Video file -> Load video and do stuff to it in after effects -> Render
Do you know how to do that, or what I might be overlooking the scripting guide. I've read through everything in the guide but haven't necessarily grasp the implications of what it says.
I should clarify, the middle part where you do stuff in after effects should be accomplished by scripting, i.e. not:
1 Create a project
2. Create a composition
3. Create layers
4. Setup transformations,
5. Save.
and then process the prepared project. I want to automate steps 1-5.

Answer 1

Thank you. My question is inarticulate, looking at it again. Really, I'm asking for a skeleton script that is for transforming video, where I think that consists of some set of actions that I do.
I usually go through this routine:
Import media
Open in footage panel and set in and out points
Create a composition from the footage, which creates a layer and adds it to the timeline, where the clip is trimmed from the in and out points.
Then I "do stuff".
Then I render and save the project.
Here is my revised code in caveman syntax, as opposed to maintainable code like http://www.crgreen.com/boethos/
(in other words, I suppose I'm not actually looking for "boilerplate" code, though that is interesting too. I mean the types of api calls needed to do basic setup and teardown for transforming and rendering video in batch)
app.project.importFile(new ImportOptions(File("c:/some.avi")))
var footage = app.project.item(1)
var comp = app.project.items.addComp(footage.name, footage.width, footage.height, footage.pixelAspect, footage.duration, footage.frameRate)
var layer = comp.layers.add(footage)
layer.inPoint = 1.0
layer.outPoint = 2.0
comp.displayStartTime = 0.0
comp.openInViewer()
This still doesn't work as I expect though. The timeline starts at 0 and lasts for the duration of the footage. I'm not sure how you trim.
I'm also not sure if trimming in the timeline is different from trimming in the footage panel and then adding trimmed footage to a composition.