• Adobe After Effects

  Where is that $%$@ effect!?

  Posted by Greg Neumayer on March 16, 2006 at 5:11 pm

  I’ve been handed a project that references an effect I don’t have, and won’t be using. So, every time I open the project, it throws an error that it can’t find the required effect on my system. Is there a way to dig up the usage of that lost effect so I can delete it? I don’t know where it was used in the myriad of sub-comps of prep art.
  Thanks,
  Greg

  Antifreeze Design
  https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com

  Colin Braley replied 20 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  March 16, 2006 at 7:13 pm

  All that comes to mind is going through comp-by-comp, selecting all layers in each comp, then hitting “E” to see the effects applied to those layers.

  “Ugh” indeed.
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  Colin Braley

  March 16, 2006 at 8:51 pm

  Heres a nice script that will seach through effects for you:

  https://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=31

  Thank Paul Tuersley of Digital Anarchy for that one.
  ~Colin

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