Auto Save?

[Steve Roberts]

There is no autosave in AE yet. You might be thinking about increment and save, which saves the current project under a new name, with a number after. Each time you invoke the command, it increments the number.

I save the first project as proj_01, then each time I invoke the command via shortcut, it saves the project as proj_02, then proj_03 next time, and so on. This way, when I send a low-res vid to the client, I name it “low-res_32.mov”, or whatever corresponds to the number of the project that created it. Good for back-checking or reproducing old videos because someone liked them better.

Every so often I delete the obsolete projects or zip them.

It’s not automatic, but I’ve gotten into the habit of doing it after a major change.

As Dave said, save early,save often … and I’d add that your “save as” interval should be the amount of time you’re willing to spend doing work over again. If you’re willing to re-do a week’s worth of work, save once a week. 🙂 For me, it’s about a half-hour.

Steve

[Yoondo]

I totally agree with Dave and Steve.
I would be scared to have auto-save turned on by accident even if there was one, because while I’m just testing things out on a project and it gets saved,
it could be point of no return on projects that are very style senstive.

[Devin Uzan]

in must apps autosave generally creates it’s own temp files and does not save over your file until you do