• Adobe After Effects

  AE7 pref & render settings

  Posted by David Johnson on September 19, 2006 at 3:13 am

  I finally just upgraded to AE 7 from 6.5 and am hoping someone can tell me…oh where oh where have my preferences and render settings gone!?

  I’m on my PC at the moment (but use Macs too) and am use to them being at:
  C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Adobe\After Effects\Prefs
  C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Adobe\After Effects\Render Settings

  When I go there now, all I get is workspaces and the .ini file! Please help…for years I’d gotten use to working with numerous versions of my prefs files that I regularly transfer amongst machines for different types of projects, etc. So, this will be a major catastrophe for me if Adobe has now eliminated access to those files instead of just hiding them to protect novists from themselves.

  David Johnson replied 19 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  David Johnson

  September 19, 2006 at 3:15 am

  i just needed to do a reply to my own post since I forgot to click response notification on my first post…sorry
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  Tim Kurkoski

  September 19, 2006 at 4:44 pm

  For 7.0 the files are in:
  C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Adobe\After Effects\7.0

  So it’s pretty much the same place, but now in a separate 7.0 folder.
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  David Johnson

  September 20, 2006 at 12:34 am

  Thanks. That’s exactly where I expected them to be, but there was nothing there…I now realize its because the pref file isn’t generated until the first closing of AE…I was trying to copy the “original” prefs before changing anything at all, which I could’ve sworn I’d done before and don’t know how I overlooked that since AE4. The render settings (.ars) and output modules (.aom) still aren’t there, but they too probably only exist inside of AE until I manually export them, which I don’t recall having to do either.

  Sorry for the stupid question, but this was a really big deal to me since I regularly work on a half dozen different machines and the ability to transfer various versions of prefs, etc. is a big part of my workflow.

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