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After Effects error: file format module parameter error.
Hi everyone…I have quite a strange issue that’s bugging the heck out of me right now, especially considering I have deadlines! I was working in a file last night, everything was fine. I come in this morning and try and open the file and bam, it gives me an error that states there is a “file format module parameter error”. After finally getting somewhere with the file, it shows all of my jpegs as if they were missing footage. I tried to reload them, but I get the same error. So naturally I tried to narrow down the problem. I can open all of the jpegs with no problem in Photoshop, but even if I resave as a different file name it will still give the same error in AFX. I then tried converting one to a TIF and it worked! Buuut AFX will not import ANY jpegs! It gives me that same error each time I try. I then tried opening the jpeg in another computer, and….it wouldn’t open…gives the same error. Yet the file opens fine in preview or Photoshop. The other computers are able to open other jpegs though. I would be grateful for any help in shedding some light on solving this issue. THANKS!
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6 Replies
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make sure they are RGB —
Nicholas Toth
Freelance Animator
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Thanks for the reply. I had checked that too, and they are RGB.
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this is pretty strange…
if you haven’t already done so, reboot… computer can do strange things when they are left on too long, and i don’t know why.
if rebooting didn’t help, how about trying to re-save your tif that you converted from a bad jpg back to a jpg? it seems as if for some reason your jpgs may have gotten corrupt, converting to tif seemed to fix the corruption, i’m wondering if re-saving the fixed tif back as a jpg may fix the jpg corruption. this is really just a shot in the dark, though…
the closest thing i’ve seen to this was when photoshop cs2 on a co-workers mac stopped reading some file types (one of which was jpg). we eventually re-installed ps cs2 to fix the problem.
it may be that your ps is creating bad jpgs and you may need to re-install ps, but it doesn’t make sense that already saved jpgs in an ae project would suddenly go bad.
Kevin Camp
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I’d go with Kevin’s approach of re-saving the file.
Try to maybe resave them as a .psd, after effects really likes them.
Unless they’re cmyk of course.Nicholas Toth
Freelance Animator
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Hey guys, thanks for the replies! I had tried rebooting my machine, but to no avail. I’ve also tried saving them back to jpegs, but that didn’t work either. Now to add to the strangeness… I’ve converted all the jpeg elements to tifs so I can get back to work…buuut when I try to replace the file…it gives me the same error! But I can do a clean import of the tif just fine! I think I’m losing my mind…
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Sounds like a good ol
‘rebuild the entire project from scratch.’Make a new project, re-save it all, and re-import it all.
Sometimes that happens….Nicholas Toth
Freelance Animator
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