parseInt has an optional radix parameter (http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_parseInt.asp) so you would simply tell it you want it to parse the integer on a base of 10 like so: parseInt("00007",10); //result: 7 I think having leading zero's is an undocumented way of defining an octal bas...

Yes, you can execute commands in the terminal by using system.callSystem(). You will need to make sure the "Allow scripts to access network" is checked in AE before you use that command or you will get an error.

The reason sort() didn't work for immigration is that it's slow and it's not a natural sort so 10 will be sorted between 1 and 2 which doesn't make it very useful for detecting file sequences.

Please file this bug with Adobe. http://adobe.com/go/wish

Hey Phil, When I was writing Immigration I came across the same problem. To make matters worse the results were different depending on whether the files were local or if they came from a server and different kinds of servers gave different results! A real pain! And then to make matters worse, it is ...

Could you do this with animation presets? They store keyframes.

The problem is that the backslash is an escape character in javascript so your windows path: "D:\06_AE_Render\073_Preview_20110727.mov" looks like this to javascript: "D:_AE_Render;_Preview_20110727.mov" You can test this yourself with this simple code in ESTK: alert("D:\06_...

Or is there a way to see if "Skip existing files" is enabled in the Render Settings window? app.project.renderQueue.item(index).skipFrames It will tell you how many frames are being skipped, so if you do a simple if/else statement you can check to see if it's on or not like so... var skip...

Please file this bug with Adobe. You can do that here: http://adobe.com/go/wish
This is the only way bugs get fixed so please do it.

Please file this bug with Adobe. This is the only way things get fixed. You can file the bug here: http://adobe.com/go/wish
They do look at those submissions so please do it.

Lloyd

Not sure if this is your issue but in CS5 dropdown do not draw beyond the edges of the UI element so make sure your window is big enough to hold the open drop-down menu.

What's not working with what you have? Are you asking about file sequences?

This should do it:
-Lloyd

You don't really need a script for this as you can do it with an expression: http://www.motionscript.com/design-guid ... -name.html