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I get this error “the file format module could not parse the file” 45::35 When i try to export in after effects
Hey I keep getting this error when i try to export a project. The file format module could not parse the file”. I am not sure what i can do to solve this issue or why it is doing it. Does anyone know why this is doing it and what i can do to fix this problem. Thanks in advance
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I know this message from wrong tiff or targa footage
Saving the file in photoshop again, normaly does the trick.
I only don’t understand why you say “exporting the project”
Do you mean “render a movie”? (apple-m)vanderzee.tv
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Sorry about that. That is what I meant to say. So if I save the original image as a .psd that should do the trick? Once again thank you for your help
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is your source file a still frame or a sequence? i have sequence files getting the same error message. would you bring sequence files to photoshop and re-save it? what would be the work flow this? i would imagine you’d use the automatic feature in photoshop…
i’d appreciate your feedback.
j.
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I’ve followed the guidelines listed in this post to no avail. Even after importing to Photoshop and re-saving a file as .TIF AND .JPG, my files will not import to AE. I’ve imported other .tif and .jpg to be sure they worked okay and they did. I don’t understand why I cannot get this logo to import? It was created on a MAC. I checked PC when I re-saved it. And I can also see it in the thumbnails just fine.
Thanks for any suggestions,
rick sullivan ricksullivan@nc.rr.com
Rick Sullivan
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had exact same problem, file was cmyk, i changed it to rgb, and it imported like butter.
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Dave,
Thanks so much for this post, i’ve solved a few problems with your suggestions in the past on various topics!
😀
Kay
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I just got this error dealing with in iff sequence… and it turns out I had imported it off the server, and the sequence had not finished rendering all-the-way through.
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I’ve rendered a sequence out of 3ds max, saved the sequence as Tga, the beauty pass imports just fine, but the render elements passes (also Tga) do not import, i get that same error message “the file format module could not parse the file”.
Also i notice that some files are still rendering in the same folder, an other sequence with different name, but output is the same folder, can it cause this sort of issues?
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Same thing happened to me.After effects gave me this error when importing a rendered image sequence of targas….
Look at all your rendered images.Sort list by details and look at size.
You’ll have some 0kb files.
BAD FRAMES!
Rerender those, replace them, reload image sequence in After Effects and you’re golden.-MM
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ah yes, thanks for replying to the thread. I had figured out that much already but got caught up by work and forgot to post again. INdeed, there was a bad frame in the middle of teh sequence, what happened is that i got a power shut down and it stopped a render in the middle, the last frame that was being saved was not saved properly before the shut down, when i started it up again i started after he last frame without noticing it was messed up (0Kb). Took me quite some time to figure it out…. Grrrr… 🙂
Cheers, dude.
A.
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