• Adobe After Effects

  To save a project with assets do you have to collect files every save?

  Posted by Hilary Tsai on October 20, 2020 at 2:20 am

  When I ‘save as’, rather than save over a project where I’ve already collected the assets within the project, do I need to collect all the files again with each new save? And when I add a new asset, does saving the project automatically collect that newly added file, or do I have to repeat the process of collecting assets just to make sure that one new asset is collected?

  Brendon Murphy replied 5 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Brendon Murphy

  October 20, 2020 at 5:02 am

  Assets do not collect within a project. When you make changes within a project, AE is just *referencing* those assets in their original location on your computer or hard drive. If your project and all the assets stay on the same computer, network, or hard drive, there is no reason to “collect files”. You would just save your project incrementally along the way.

  If you need to share a project with someone who does not have access to all of the files that after effects is using, that’s when you have the program copy, or “collect”, the assets into a single folder. That folder can then be moved to a different location and the project saved inside will open without missing assets. You might also do this when you are backing up a project so that all assets referenced by the project are also backed up.

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