Setting filenames for images sequences via scripting

Is there a good way to set the output filename for a sequence via scriping? When I explicitly set the filename and render location, the frame number is being appended to the end of the extension. (example: "filename.png002").

Did a quick test.
You can set name the way you want "Comp 1-[#].jpg" - I mean if you add [#] by hand, AE seems to respect that.
So I guess you could check how many frames you are going to render and set appropriate amount of # signs in the file name.
Looking at your example, seems that AE ads frame number after the extension. In case you want to control where AE puts those frame numbers, try this "filename-[#].png" - that should do the trick.

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Hi folks!
I have a little problem with generating a PDF. First my Workflow:
I have a InDesign document with 6 pages. This document is merged with a databasefile containing 100 records. After merging it, we have to generate a PDF file. This PDF file is opened within acrobat. Within the document, I'm searching for an ID each record has so I can split the document to 100 files (each with 6 pages) and name it by the ID I found.
The script within Acrobat is finished and working. I thought, the InDesign script is finished ,too. But I was wrong -.-
I merged the databasefile with the document and exported it as PDF. But after exporting, we noticed that the script within Acrobat isn't finding the adressheader where the ID is in. The script only noticed the text after that header. The result is, that Acrobat get's always "null" as ID
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Here you can see the old script for InDesign and right after it, the Acrobat sript. Maybe I made some mistake by generating my PDFexport and don't need to use the printer?
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* stores folder where file is stored
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var dbstartfile = File.openDialog("Bitte Start-Datenbankdatei auswählen", "*.txt", false);
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var dbstartfilename = dbstartfile.name.slice(0, dbstartfile.name.search(/_Teil+/));
* gets number of first databasefile
var i = dbstartfile.name.slice(dbstartfile.name.search(/_Teil+/)+5).slice(0, -4);
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   * stops throwing of alerts
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.NEVER_INTERACT;
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* Special Characters like spaces should be escaped with \
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* "/Driveletter/Foldername/../LastFolderName/"
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    } else {
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Hi,
I have a little problem with generating a PDF. First my Workflow:
I have a InDesign document with 6 pages. This document is merged with a databasefile containing 100 records. After merging it, we have to generate a PDF file. This PDF file is opened within acrobat. Within the document, I'm searching for an ID each record has so I can split the document to 100 files (each with 6 pages) and name it by the ID I found.
Why you don't export 6-page PDFs directly from InDesign?
robin
www.adobescripts.co.uk

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I'm trying all day to find a way to set PREFIX for DIMENSION_TABLE
using OMB script without success and I'm a little confused now.
First of all Scripting Reference does not mention about PREFIX
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You misunderstood me. I don't want to rename DIMENSION_TABLE. When creating DIMENSION_TABLE with gui I set NAME and PREFIX for each DIMENSION_TABLE and LEVEL.
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When I create DIMENSION_TABLE using OMB Script prefix is set same as name (default behaviour that I can't change) and it is to long to use.
Scripting Reference doesn't mention about PREFIX property. Should I assume that the only way to change these values are through OWB GUI?
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I shot about a 226 shot time lapse this weekend and so far having a severe pain getting it to be a time lapse movie in photoshop.
Shots were 3 minutes apart.
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The original footage is DVCProHD 1080p and when put it in a sequence created with the preset for that, everything runs very smoothly. But when I bring in intermediate files that were created with the same resolution, but that use PNG, Targa or Tiff instead, rendering becomes very sluggish. That makes me wonder if there maybe is a better sequence preset that I could use for playback of these image sequences? Or does the sequence preset even make a difference here?
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