At work we have a workflow that is as following:
- we prerender a comp
- place that prerender back in that comp
- solo it.
We prefer this above replacing the comp with the prerender, since it's much easier to make alterations.
Problems arise when you have 100 pre-comps which you render out overnight and you have to do with task over and over again for all the comps. It just takes a lot of time.
I was wondering how hard it is to make a script that checks the names of the pre-comps and compares that to the comps. If it's the same, then put the pre-comp in the first layer and solo it. My scripting skills are limited to copy/pasting exsisting scripts and I can read and understand not too complex scripts.