• Adobe After Effects

  Opening .aec files

  Posted by Marc Lucas on August 4, 2011 at 4:16 pm

  Whenever I create a .aec file in C4D and try and open it it always defaults to Apple’s Color to open it. I have done the old trick of selecting ‘always open with’ and selecting AE and it doesn’t seem to save those settings and the next time I try and open it defaults back to the Color suggestion.

  Marc Lucas replied 15 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  August 4, 2011 at 5:00 pm

  In the Finder, Get Info (Cmd-I) on an .AEC file. There’s an “Open with” section of the information panel. Change the default application to After Effects, and then click the “Change all…” button.

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  Michael Szalapski

  August 4, 2011 at 5:43 pm

  Also, you should import AEC files into an already open project and not open them.

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  Marc Lucas

  August 5, 2011 at 11:20 am

  Strangely it was already set to AE as the default in the get info window so I just clicked on the drop down selection to see what else was in there I went out of that widow and tried opening the file again and it then defaulted to AE to open them files……….so it worked;-)

  Thanks

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