Session::write_output (and refuse_export) is the one place that checks; Save Frame As
(PNG/PSD/EXR), Export Lottie, Save a Copy (+XML), Collect Files, Export Timeline (and its
pre-rendered movies), Export Template, Save Animation Preset, Export Guides and Export
Shortcuts write through it. The control channel's render.frame/ui.screenshot, MCP
render_frame and CLI render-frame --out check first (new query file.checkOutput for the
bridged cases). Save/Save As/auto-save are untouched.
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Two queue items that resolve to one output (the same comp added twice, a duplicated item) replaced
each other's file inside one job. Nothing is on disk when the job starts, so no check said anything.
- A default output name (renderQueue.add, render.preRender, comp.saveFrameAs {queue},
file.createProxy) that another item of the queue writes, in any output module or segment, is
numbered like a footage collision: Main.mp4, Main_1.mp4, Main_2.mp4. Sequences are compared by
the frames they write, so two stills of one comp at different times keep their names. Names a
caller gave and names already stored in items are never changed.
- Outputs of one job that still name the same file (explicit names, renderQueue.duplicate, output
modules, segments) refuse the whole render before anything is written, naming both items.
Sequences clash only on frames both write; a later item with Skip Existing Files leaves the
earlier item's frames alone; items refused for footage take no part.
Refusing the whole render, not just the later item: which of two items should keep the file is the
user's to say, and failing only the later one would leave a half-rendered queue found after they
left. renderQueue.duplicate stays a verbatim copy so the clash is reported, not hidden.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RDvxCS8xcR28VArjzn1x7U
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