Move footage item to folder problem.

Question

Hi,
I have a problem. I have created script with following action:
Import footage.
Create "_MAIN_RENDER_FX##" comp from footage.
Precomp footage from _MAIN_RENDER_FX## to _MAIN_COMP_FX##.
Add it to render queue.
Create "Composition" and "Footage" folder.
Add comp to Composition folder and footages to Footage folder.
Problem is that if I move Footages to "Footages" folder in the script and launch script again to import another footage,
It will keep in memory older footage information. If I comment that section out which moves footages to "Footages" folder it works,
It even works if I move footage to folder by hand and run script again.
My script consists three functions:
getInfoItem(item) // takes footage item and parse filename to different keywords.
findFolderItemByName(name) // this just checks that if folder exists by given name.
ChooseFile() // This is where we do import stuff which i explained earlier.
Can you spot mistake from my code or give some advice to improve my coding (Im quite new of scripting)?
NOTE: This is hard coded to our project folder structure so getInfoItem function only works with this kind of folder structure.
Windows: X:\Projects\<Project>\Exports\VFX\FX##\
MAC: /Volumes/<NetworkDrive>/Projects/<Project>/Exports/VFX/FX##/
function getInfoItem(item){
    // Test OS
    var OS = $.os;
    if (OS.search("Windows") != -1) {
        OS = "Windows";
        var splitNum = 4;
    } else {
        OS = "Mac";
        var splitNum = 5;
    //  KEYWORDs
    this.fullpath = item.file;
    this.fullpath = String(this.fullpath);
    this.path_array = this.fullpath.split("/");
    this.fxnum = this.path_array[this.path_array.length-2];
     // split path based on splitNum variable which is based which OS currently in use.
    this.project_array= this.fullpath.split("/",splitNum);
    this.project_path = this.project_array.join("/");
    // Make a COPY from this.path_array
    this.path = this.path_array.slice();
    // remove last cell (Filename)
    this.path.pop();
    this.path = this.path.join("/");
    this.path = this.path + "/";
    this.fps = item.frameRate;
    this.duration = item.duration;
    this.width = item.width;
    this.height = item.height;
    this.name = item.name;
    this.left_index = this.name.indexOf("[");
    this.right_index = this.name.indexOf("]");
    this.sub = this.name.substring(this.left_index+1,this.right_index);
    this.filename = this.name.substring(0,this.left_index-1);
    this.splitted = this.sub.split("-");
    this.first_frame = this.splitted[0];
    this.last_frame = this.splitted[1];
    this.ext = ".dpx"
    // FOLDER RULES
    var padding = "#########################";
    this.aeProjectFolder = "/Project_Files/AE/";
    this.renderFolder = "/Renders/VFX/"+this.fxnum+"/";
    this.padnum = String(this.first_frame).length;
    this.outputseq = this.project_path+this.renderFolder+this.filename+"_["+padding.slice(-this.padnum)+"]"+this.ext;
    var outputfile = this.outputseq.slice(0,-this.padnum-6);
    this.outputfile = outputfile + this.first_frame + this.ext;
function findFolderItemByName(name){
        var found = false;
        for (i = 1; i <= app.project.numItems; i++){
            if (app.project.item(i).name == name && app.project.item(i) instanceof FolderItem ){
                var myFolder = app.project.item(i);
                found = myFolder;
                break
        return found;
function ChooseFile(){
    var myItem = app.project.importFileWithDialog();
    var checkFile = 1;
    var footage = new getInfoItem(myItem[0]);
    var rndFolder = footage.project_path+footage.renderFolder;
    // Create MAIN RENDER Comp
    var comp = app.project.items.addComp("_MAIN_RENDER_"+footage.fxnum,footage.width,footage.height,1,footage.duration,footage.fps);
    // Check if comp or footage folder exists. otherwise create it.
    if(!findFolderItemByName("Compositions")){
        var compFolder = app.project.items.addFolder("Compositions");
    else{
        var compFolder = findFolderItemByName("Compositions");
    if(!findFolderItemByName("Footages")){
        var footageFolder = app.project.items.addFolder("Footages");
    else{
        var footageFolder = findFolderItemByName("Footages");
    // Add footage to _MAIN_RENDER_FX## Comp. 
    comp.displayStartTime = footage.first_frame/footage.fps;
    comp.layers.add(myItem[0]);
    // Precomp layer from _MAIN_RENDER_FX##
    var layerIndices= [1];
    var precomp = comp.layers.precompose([1],"MAIN_COMP_"+footage.fxnum);
    precomp.parentFolder = compFolder;
    // add Comp to render Queue
    rqi = app.project.renderQueue.items.add(comp);
    // Find DPX template and apply
    for (x in rqi.outputModules[1].templates) {
        if (rqi.outputModules[1].templates[x] == "DPX" ){
            rqi.outputModules[1].applyTemplate(rqi.outputModules[1].templates[x]);
            rqi.outputModules[1].file = File (footage.outputseq);        
    // Put all footage items to footage folder
    for (i = 1; i <= app.project.numItems; i++){
            if (app.project.item(i).typeName == "Footage"){
                    app.project.item(i).parentFolder = footageFolder;
ChooseFile();
Thanks,
.M

Answer 1

sorry, lost track of this thread for a while. this is actually pretty easy. the simplest would be to use applescript only but it can be done with automator with only minimal use of applescript. I don't know how to do it without using apple script altogether.
make the following workflow in automator.
1. get selected finder items.
2. run applescript
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color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Finder"
container of item 1 of input as alias
end tell
end run</pre>
3. set variable value.
make a new storage variable and use it in this action.
4. run applescript
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on run {input, parameters}
end run</pre>
this is adummy action to break the workflow chain.
4. get selected finder items.
5. make new folder.
drag the variable you made to the "where" field.