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Converting AE project to a legacy filetype
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The bad news is that this stuff looks like Russian to me.
It’s not Russian, it’s binary. You’ll need a hex editor to mess with that. And you’ll have no way of knowing what anything means.
If I were you I’d forget about this. The cost of upgrading to CS5 is surely much smaller than the cost of paying someone (like you) to spend weeks messing around in adobe binary files.
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Touché.
– Spencer
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This may not help you right now but Lloyd Alvarez from aescripts.com just announced that they are about to release a script called OpenSesame that will allow you to open a CS5 project in CS3 and so on. I don’t know when they’re officially releasing it but he had a working version in the presentation. Maybe if you contact them they’ll help you out.
Here’s the presentation. OpenSesame starts at about 19:20…
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Freakin’ awesome! I knew it was possible (take that Walter and Dave)!
This absolutely helps me out, thank you very much for the link. I’ll check it out later today and see if I can contact these guys – Lloyd makes some really great stuff.
– Spencer
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Glad to help. Let us know how it works out.
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[Spencer Tweed] “I knew it was possible (take that Walter and Dave)!”
Hey, I was tongue-in-cheek when I said it was impossible — I even suggested two different ways to do it!
When it is released, OpenSesame (a Paul Tuersley script which works a lot like what you were asking for a script author to develop) will do a lot more than just let you save down to previous versions. This is one to watch…
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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Hah, yeah lets see if we can put the pressure on these guys to crank it out. I could use it!
Anyone know if this will also be a “name your own price” sort of thing? Due to our firewall I haven’t been able to see the video yet.
– Spencer
– Spencer
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I don’t think he mentioned the price but I’m sure it will be very reasonable. Some of their scripts like BG Renderer no longer have the “name your own price” option but it’s still only $20 for the pro version and $5 for the basic version. I guess there were too many people downloading for free and not paying anything to the authors. Sad.
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People like me…. 😉
Yes you are right, they are very generous with their pricing I’m sure it will be reasonable. Whatever it is I am ready to pay for this one! It will literally save me hours and hours of time, and everyone knows
time = money (specially in this business).– Spencer
– Spencer
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Let me say this honestly – if your project is intensive and it’s going to take a lot of time for you to “dumb down” to an old version of AE, it’s going to cost someone (probably the client) money for your time. Have you tried explaining that to them? Unless you want to be paid to do this tedious work, it’s an approach that most cost-savvy clients tend to at least understand… and these days, most (if not all) clients tend to be cost-savvy.
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