Archiving AE Projects

[Steve Roberts]

Search for “collect files” in the Help and go from there.

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Files->Collect Files is what you want. But before you get there, you may want to first clean up your project.

For that there are Files>Remove Unused Footage. Then there is Files->Consolidate All Footage. This one removes redundant footage items and relinks those items that have been removed.

The use Files->Reduce Project. For this, select comps that you want to retain before selecting this option.

Your final procedure is to select Files->Collect Files. All the routines are undoable.

Someone should wrte a script to run through the process with a SaveAs (for backup purposes) as the first routine.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
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[Michael Mcswain]

Thanks so much for helping out a green horn!