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Anyway to revert CS3 project to AE 7 Project?
I have project that upgraded from AE 7 to CS3. The AE 7 project used Trapcode Particular and Shine. However for some reason, though I transfered and reinstalled these plug-ins in CS3 and the effects still do not come out in the final movie.
I’m not using anything in particular that is CS3 based. Is there a way to revert the project back? -
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The manual says no. Sorry.
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What do you mean by “transferred and reinstalled”? You can’t just copy the files from one plug-in folder to the other, you’ll have to run the installers and point them to CS3. According to the Trapcode website, all current versions (make sure you’re running the latest) should run in CS3 on PowerPC. MacTel versions for CS3 don’t look like they’re available yet.
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There is an option I once read about. Use a texteditor and open you aep project. Alter the header back to ae7 and save. I can’t remember the specifics and I’m not sure if this works for cs3 too but it was pretty easy.
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I rendered out those part of my project that didn’t have the Trapcode plug-ins and built a new project in version 7.
What you describe above sounds good. Was that no this forum? I have BBedit and could do this very easily, if it works.Thanks for your help.
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You can, in fact, copy the trapcode filters from one AE install to another, even on different machines. Just copy the whole trapcode folder from the plug-ins folder of your AE7 install to your AE3 plug-ins folder and you should be set. You will need to grab your presets folder as well. If you are moving from machine to machine, grab the trapcode preferences from your home/Library/Preferences folder as well (this is what contains the serial numbers for your trapcode install).
If you are moving to an Intel machine, PPC plug-ins will not load (i.e. not even show up in the effects list) when AE CS3 is running in Intel native mode. You can, however, get it to load PPC plug-ins (such as the current trapcode plugs) by running AE CS3 in Rosetta mode. Rosetta is what Apple calls their PPC translation layer. You can run AE CS3 (or any other Intel native app) in Rosetta mode by getting info on the application (ctrl- or right-click on the application icon, select Get Info) and then ticking on the box for opening the app using Rosetta. You’ll see a mighty big slowdown but your trapcode plugs should load up fine.
-Matt
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