Relink footage in fusion

Hi guys

I had a lot of comps that for some reason got offline
I managed to import it again and for now it has worked

But i was wondering if there is an easier way to do it, so i can have a lot of comps relinked in 1 click or is doing it manually one by one the only way to do it?

Please and thank you so much

there are some older scripts flying around which can be adopted to fusion8 which offers a "search and replace" function


or you could open your comp in any text editor and do the search and replace there

I've never worked with a script before so im lost there

Is it easy to do?

save this into your "fusionFolder/scripts/comp" as ChangePath.lua

when you start fusion you should find a new item under "scripts" called "ChangePath"

beacuse this is an adoption of an old script i dont know if it works correct on OsX and Linux

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-- Change Paths script, Revision: 2.1
--
-- search for (and replace) a pattern in all filenames in the flow,
-- including Loader Filename, Proxy,  and Savers. Full support for
-- cliplists.
--
-- place in Fusion:/Scripts/Comp
--
-- TODO Add regular expressions support
--    - partial / multi matches
--    - autodetection of missing files in dfscriptlib?
--
-- written by Isaac Guenard (izyk@eyeonline.com)
-- created : unknown date, by Isaac Guenard
-- updated : Sept 27, 2005
-- changes : updated for 5
-- update for Fu8 michael vorberg mv@empty98.de
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function conf(filepath)
   filepath = string.lower(filepath)
   findStart, findEnd   = string.find( filepath, srchFor, 1, true )
   print(findStart, findEnd, filepath)
   if findStart == nil then return nil end
   
   -- build the new filename using strStart
   newclip =   string.sub(filepath, 1, findStart - 1) ..
            srchTo ..
            string.sub(filepath, findEnd + 1)
            
   return newclip
end


-- ask the user for some information
x = composition:AskUser("Repath All Loaders", {
   {"Loaders", "Checkbox", Name = "Loaders", NumAcross = 3, Default = 1},
   {"Savers", "Checkbox", Name = "Savers", NumAcross = 3, Default = 1},
   {"Proxy", "Checkbox", Name = "Proxy", NumAcross = 3, Default = 1},
   {"GeoLoaders", "Checkbox", Name = "GeoLoaders", NumAcross = 3, Default = 1},
   {"Source", "Text", Name = "Enter pattern to search for"},
   {"Replacement", "Text", Name = "Enter the replacement path"},
   {"Valid", "Checkbox", Name = "Check If New Path is Valid", Default = 1},
   } )

-- did we get a response, or did they cancel
if x then
   srchFor   = string.lower( bmd.trim( x.Source ) )
   srchTo   = string.lower( bmd.trim( x.Replacement ) )
else
   return nil
end

if srchFor == "" then
   print("What are you searching for?\n")
   return nil
end

if srchTo == "" then
   print("What are you changing ".. srchFor .." to?\n")
   return nil
end

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-- lock the flow
-------------------------
composition:Lock()

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-- start an undo event
-------------------------
 composition:StartUndo("Path Remap - " .. srchFor .. " to " ..srchTo)

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-- get table of tools in flow
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toollist   = composition:GetToolList(false)

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-- for every tool in the flow
-------------------------

for i, tool in ipairs(toollist) do
   tool_a   = tool:GetAttrs()

   -- process only loaders and savers
   if tool_a.TOOLS_RegID == "Loader" then
      
      clipTable = tool_a.TOOLST_Clip_Name
      altclipTable = tool_a.TOOLST_AltClip_Name
      startTime = tool_a.TOOLNT_Clip_Start
      
      -- pass a function the filename, get the newclip back, or nil
      if x.Loaders == 1 then
         for i = 1, table.getn( clipTable ) do
            newclip = conf( clipTable[i] )
            
            if newclip ~= nil then
               if (fileexists(composition:MapPath(newclip)) == false) and (x.Valid == 1) then
                  print( "FAILED : New clip does not exist; skipping sequence.\n   " .. newclip)
               else
                  tool.Clip[startTime[i]] = newclip
               end
            end
         end
      end
      
      -- pass a function the filename, get the newclip back, or nil
      if x.Proxy == 1 then
         for i = 1, table.getn( altclipTable ) do
            if altclipTable[i] ~= "" then
               newclip = conf( altclipTable[i] )
      
               if newclip ~= nil then
                  if (fileexists(composition:MapPath(newclip)) == false) and (x.Valid == 1) then
                     print( "FAILED : New proxy clip does not exist; skipping sequence.\n   " .. newclip)
                  else
                     tool.ProxyFilename[startTime[i]] = newclip
                  end
               end
            end
         end
      end
   end
   
   if tool_a.TOOLS_RegID == "Saver" and x.Savers == 1 then
   
      newclip = conf( tool_a.TOOLST_Clip_Name )

      if newclip ~= nil then
         tool.Clip[fu.TIME_UNDEFINED] = newclip
      end
      
   end
   if tool_a.TOOLS_RegID == "SurfaceFBXMesh" and x.GeoLoaders == 1 then
   
      old_name = tool.ImportFile[1]
      newclip = conf(old_name)

      if newclip ~= nil then
         tool.ImportFile[fu.TIME_UNDEFINED] = newclip
      end
      
   end
end

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-- close the undo event
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composition:EndUndo(true)

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-- unlock the comp
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composition:Unlock()


Tested with fusion 9 doesn't work for savers . You can change loaders only . Haven't tested Proxy and GeoLoaders how is it.
If somebody has working version please share it.

Just found this thread. Probably too long ago to actually help you but I actually created a script that can search and replace in filepaths as well as names, expression and in Styled text boxes.
It's basically like ChangePaths only with more features.

Here is a link on how to search and replace in filepaths using Change Strings:

https://noahhaehnel.com/blog/how-to-bat ... filepaths/

Open in Notepad++ and do a find and replace on the file path.