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After Effects 7 project imported in to AE CS5
I began working on a complex roto matte project in AE 7 back in 2006 and I recently opened the project in AE CS 5 to make some changes.
After the project opened in CS 5 I discovered all my roto matte work was mostly gone.
I spent over a week creating this project in 2006 and I would love to do some additional work on it in CS 5, but I do not want to have to start at the beginning.Does anyone have any insight on why all my work disappears when I open the project in CS 5??
Thank you for your time.
Kind regards,
J
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When you say your “roto matte work was mostly gone”, what are you referring to?
After Effects CS5 can open After Effects 7 projects, and there should be no difference in something like masks or track mattes.
If you’re specific about what seems to be wrong or missing, we can help.
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To be more specific, I have a shot with an actor playing twins, and he walks past himself while looking into a mirror.
I had to create the bezier shapes for the actor in the foreground, and the background, and layer those on top of a clean plate.Lots of work,….. I would like to make some more adjustments to the bezier shapes, but they are all gone except 1 shape and the keyframes for all the shapes including the one that remains are all gone.
Not sure how to proceed.
Hope this description helps.
Thanks for the reply.
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Try opening the project in After Effects 7 to make sure that the project that you have actually contains the information that you think that it does. If it does, and After Effects CS5 doesn’t see/retain that information, let me know.
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In case you no longer have AE 7, I believe I can get access to a machine that does. I wouldn’t need your source footage or anything to check if your masks are there on the layers. So if you can’t get to an old version, let me know.
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I do still have AE 7, and when I open the project on the older Mac, it opens without problems, with all footage and Masks in place. It’s when I open in AECS 5 that all the masks except 1 (and all the keyframing on that mask is gone) are missing.
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Thank you.
J
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I appreciate your time,…..
Here’s the reply I wrote to another helpful individual, I believe it answers your thoughts on the subject as well.I do still have AE 7, and when I open the project on the older Mac, it opens without problems, with all footage and Masks in place. It’s when I open in AECS 5 that all the masks except 1 (and all the keyframing on that mask is gone) are missing.
Thank you.
J
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This is the first time that I’ve heard of this happening. If you don’t mind, we’d really appreciate it if you sent a copy of the project the aebugs -at- adobe -dot- com.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
Premiere Pro Help & Support
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