// Replace highlighted footage with footage from a folder of your choice -  useful for conforming an online!
// By Dan Sollis, 2nd March 2004. Updated 1st July 2009. For more info, visit WWW.DIGITALDISTORTION.NET
// Footage being replaced must have the same name as the replacement files (or contain the name as a string inside)

// create undo group
{
  app.beginUndoGroup("replace selected footage");

// get highlighted project items
var footageToReplace = app.project.selection;

// get source of replacement media
var replacementMediaFolder = folderGetDialog("Point me to the folder containing the replacement quicktimes");

// now replace the footage
var onlineFileArray = replacementMediaFolder.getFiles();

for (i = 0; i < footageToReplace.length; i++) {

	// check if current project item is footage, otherwise skip
	if (footageToReplace[i] instanceof FootageItem) {

		// get name of current file in array (for string matching)
		var currentProjectItemName = footageToReplace[i].name.toLowerCase();

		// find the matching footage file on disk (if there is one) using the supplied item name
		for (p = 0; p < onlineFileArray.length; p++) {

			var curFileItem = onlineFileArray[p];
			var curFileItemName = curFileItem.name.toLowerCase();

			// if the filename of the online file exists as a string in the name of the offline proxy...
			if (currentProjectItemName.indexOf(curFileItemName) != -1) {
			
				//...then replace this project item with the online file
				onlineFileArray[p].open("r");
				footageToReplace[i].replace(onlineFileArray[p]);
				
				writeLn ("replaced item " + (i+1) + " of " + (footageToReplace.length + 1));

			}

		}

	}

}

app.endUndoGroup();
}