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[Paul Baker]

This has been happening quite a bit this past week.
I’ll export NTSC DV (3:2) 720 x 480 footage at 29.97fps from Final Cut Pro as a quicktime .mov file.
Then import in to AE CS3 and drag it to create a comp with it’s settings. And it works great. No 3d, just pretty basic editing right now.

Then the next day I try to open up the AE project and the errors keep popping up

After effects error: reading from file (784) (3 :: 122)
or After effects error : file cannot be imported –files of type “MooV are not supported.

(which I have double checked and confirmed that I am exporting Self Contained .mov files.)

The weirdest part about this whole thing is that the next day after I tried to open a project and it wouldn’t let me because of those errors. When I tried opening it the next day…IT WORKED. after I did nothing to it.

But now it’s happening all over again, and I need to find answers because I am in a real crunch.

Paul.

by the way, thanks dave. you’ve been a big help in the past

SPECS:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB

[Paul Baker]

Ok, cool. I just tried all of that list. But now, when I try to open up my project it says:

After Effects warning: Unable to import file ‘x.aep’ as a project.

?

SPECS:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB