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can’t relink to gfx cuz of bad Qt ref movies?
I had this problem last year (and I’ve see Cow posts about it). Workarounds welcome even if it means purging all Qt moovs. But without a “Find All” (.mov) function, not easily done.
I’m trying to review a AE8 Mac project I inherited that would appear to involve a a bunch of Quicktime (reference movies) dependences with broken links or missing master files.
I could get to a good place if only I could link to the static media (jpegs etc) but the Quicktime confusion seems to defeat most all linking. Example- double clicking on a missing jpeg and navigate to the folder it is in… AE thinks about it but even that relink will be thwarted by the problem Qt’s. Error msgs follow
Any work-around or suggestions on linking to the image assets? Unless I’m missing something it’s hard to believe a project can be so easily crippled at this late date. (AE9!)
Thanks,
Paul
* AE error msgs Searching for movie data…. & “The movie file cannot be found…”
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if you have many locations in the project for the same video, you could create solids with the name of the original footage, then run my replace script.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/50/857857#857857
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Thanks Chris & Dave,
It would appear that there are several dozen Qt’s with dependencies that involve (to find them) opening the proj, AE looks for and can’t find movie data, gives up saying it can’t link 200 files. Then you try to manually relink to a gfx file, AE then reports on another Qt with missing data, repeat process several dozen times just to determine the problem movs that need (solid) replacing. No fault of yours but it just seems crazy.
As to the replace script, not sure how that is an improvement on control-clicking the problem moov (discovered one at a time via the above torturous process) and saying “replace with solid”
Thanks,
Paul
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Dave that felt like a dressing down, I’d like to keep it cordial. I think have some perspective on it from using AE since COSA v2 and doing visual efx with 2″ tape since 1976. I guess I’m lobbying/seeking for a better way as we’re on AE9.
Again I did not make this mess, I inherited it.
-P
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[Dave LaRonde] “Well, if you don’t need the quicktimes — just the still graphics — you can simply delete all the quicktimes”
What about moving the QT files elsewhere on the filesystem so that After Effects doesn’t know where to find them? When AE opens up, you’ll get a missing footage error, but then you should be able to replace the movies with stills in the project panel.
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I’m with Walter on this except that even moving the QTs to a new location won’t be of much help. As soon as you try to manually link a single QT within the new folder, AE will automatically try to relink to all the other QTs.
I suggest that you rename all the QTs with a prefix. This will prevent AE from automatically committing a relink routine.
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By renaming the Qt’s do you find AE skips them and relinks to what is left, like the non-Qt files?
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