• Adobe After Effects

  AE Project Won’t Open

  Posted by Randy Robinson on June 21, 2018 at 8:05 pm

  Hey AE Community,

  When I try opening ANY AE project the program freezes and I see the spinning wheel of death. I tried creating a new project (which works fine) and importing existing AE projects but the program freezes. I’ve also tried opening older auto-save projects with no luck.

  Mac Pro Late 2013
  MacOS High Sierra
  Processor 3.7 GHz Quad-core
  16gb ram
  After Effects Version 15.1.1

  MBP Mid 2015
  MacOS High Sierra
  2.5GHz i7
  16gb ram
  After Effects Version 15.1.1

  Any help would greatly be appreciated!

  Uladzislau Letsiaha replied 7 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Roei Tzoref

  June 21, 2018 at 8:26 pm

  Try this:
  Rename the asset folder of your project. This will force Ae to report the assets as missing and if the project opens you can see it’s one of the assets that is causing this.

  If this does not work then try uninstalling and reinstalling the software.

  If this doesn’t work try uninstalling all plugins and scripts.

  Also try a different workstation.

  Roei Tzoref
  2D/VFX Generalist & Instructor
  ♫ AeBlues Tutorials ♫
  http://www.tzoref.com
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  Randy Robinson

  June 21, 2018 at 9:20 pm

  Oh! I got it to work! I’m not positive but there might have been a missing file within my Premiere project that was linked to AE. Maybe y’all can look at my workflow to see if there’s a better way I can do this so I don’t have any more problems like this in the future.

  I created my asset folders (001_video, 002_audio, etc.), created my Premiere folder (003_premiere), I started my project in premiere and dragged the timeline to After Effects (004_aftereffects) so I can add animations. I’ve never had a problem doing it this way in the past but now I’m questioning if this is the best way to do this.

  Thank you again for your help, Roei!
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  Roei Tzoref

  June 22, 2018 at 9:36 am

  Nothing seems wrong with your workflow. When you drag and drop (or copy paste) timelines, you are converting (not linking which is something else) a Premiere project to Ae project (or Vice versa if you want) so if files are missing, you should get a notification about it in Ae.

  So not exactly sure why this happened.

  Roei Tzoref
  2D/VFX Generalist & Instructor
  ♫ AeBlues Tutorials ♫
  http://www.tzoref.com
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  Uladzislau Letsiaha

  November 15, 2018 at 6:25 pm

  I had the same problem. It’s worked for me by going: File/Open project and selecting that project

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