• Adobe After Effects

  After Effects and Final Cut “File is Busy” error

  Posted by Mike on May 31, 2005 at 6:44 pm

  The majority of all my edit sessions involve a lot of compositing and I’ve become very accustomed to keeping both After Effects and Premiere open at the same time and bouncing back and forth between them as I make revisions with my client. The most typical workflow I have is to re-render my AE movies over their existing file names so that my premiere timeline automatically updates with my AE revisions. However, I’ve recently switched to Final Cut and now every time I attempt to re-render a file that is already in my Final Cut sequence, I get a Quicktime error in AE that says “file is busy.” This is extrememly annoying – is there anyway to get around this? I really want to be able to keep Final Cut and AE open at the same time and be able to re-render over files that already exist in my sequence. I’ve come up with a number of workarounds on my own, but all of them are adding a lot of steps to what was a beautifully simple workflow. Any suggestions? This is obviously more a Final Cut issue than an AE issue, but I wanted to pick the brains of the AE gurus as well. Any help is greatly appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Mike

  Dual 2.5 G5, OS 10.3.8, Kona 2, Quicktime 6.5.2, 2GB RAM

  Matt Larson replied 20 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Matt Larson

  May 31, 2005 at 8:18 pm

  Just make sure the clip you want to write over is not open: Either in the viewer (open slug, or another video clip to clear it) or if it is in an open sequence, control-click the timeline tab and close it.

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