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Converting AE5.5 -> AE7
Hey folks,
here’s my problem:
Once we had After Effects 5.5 (Mac, propably in english). At that time there were other animators working here, while I was still going to school 😉
So, today I have to work with an old Project created.
When I open the Project in AE7 (Mac OS X, german version), AE tells me first, that the project has to be converted. No problem there.
But then AE says, that there are Refererences to missing effects (‘CE Change Color HLS’, ‘FE Sphere’).
I know, these effects are there, but with different names.Any way to get around rebuiling the effects?
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i’d try to open it with the english version of AE7 then (go to wherever you have AE installed – open folder languages – open ‘Adobe After Effects E’)
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[BausDTown] “But then AE says, that there are Refererences to missing effects (‘CE Change Color HLS’, ‘FE Sphere’).
I know, these effects are there, but with different names.Any way to get around rebuiling the effects?”
No you can’t change the references, not even with a script (a script would still need the working effects to get its parameters and transfer them). You have to bite the bitter apple and do it manually by painstakingly transfering setting to the equivalent CC effects or Boris effects.
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I’ve had some success with opening the .aep file in a texteditor and doing a global search and replace for “FE Sphere” to “CC Sphere”.
This only seems to work if the new plugin name has the same number of characters as the old one, and all the parameters still have the same name.
Like I said, it probably only works on a few of them.
Do this on a copy of course, and use a good text or hex editor (for example don’t try this with word 🙂 )
good luck
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