• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Custom Presets “Missing” Error

  Posted by Yasush Azush on April 12, 2012 at 3:33 pm

  Hi,

  I’d Like to know how to collect an After Effects project file which contains custom presets.

  What happens is, when I collect the project and re-open the file all the custom presets working fine but

  showing “Missing” error in the “Effect Controls” window.

  Thanks

  Yasush Azush replied 14 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
• 5 Replies

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  Dan Ebberts

  April 12, 2012 at 4:15 pm

  Are you opening the project on the same installation of AE where you did the collect, or a different one?

  Dan
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  Yasush Azush

  April 12, 2012 at 4:41 pm

  No I intent to open the file in another computer.
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  Dan Ebberts

  April 12, 2012 at 4:56 pm

  Any changes you’ve made to the PresetEffects.xml file aren’t going to automatically move with your collected project file. You’ll have to make the same changes on the other computer, or create some kind of installer that does it for you.

  Dan
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  Dan Ebberts

  April 12, 2012 at 4:58 pm

  It occurs to me that you might just be talking about preset, not changes to PresetEffects file. In that case, you’ll still have to move those presets (.ffx files) to the other computer.

  Dan
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  Yasush Azush

  April 12, 2012 at 6:07 pm

  Hi Dan,
  Sorry I was out and wasn’t able to reply quickly.
  Actually I did add some lines of code to the PresetEffect.xml. Technically everything works fine when I move the collected project file to another computer. I’m still wondering, if the xml files is not included in the package, how come it works fine, thought still I see the word missing!
  Thanks

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