Help! project contains 1 reference to a missing effect

[Kevin Camp]

essentially, you need to install ‘inner bevel’ or live without it (you can render without it, ae won’t crash, you just won’t see that effect).

if you look at the preview and it looks good to you, and you show it to whomever needs to approve it and they say it looks good too, then live without it.

if they say, hey it doesn’t look like the previous one! then you’ll need to track down that effect. if it is part of an expensive fx package, then you may have to say it’s going to cost $xxx to get it exactly the same, would you rather live without it, or try to find a way to create something similar.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Dave Johnson]

The other designer used a third-party plugin called “Inner Bevel” (maybe Alien Skin Eye Candy), which is not installed on your machine.

Unless you have access to the machine with that plugin installed, the easiest thing to do will be replace it with a native AE effect. You might want to do this using a copy of the original project file …

To locate the affected layer(s), select all layers in the timeline, press E on your keyboard to reveal all effects and look for any effect names preceded by “Missing:”. To each layer with the missing plugin, apply a native AE effect that does the same thing as the missing third-party plugin (i.e., Bevel Alpha) and delete the missing third-party plugin from those layers. Save and re-open the project before making any other changes and you should no longer get the error message (unless you missed a layer that used the plugin).

[Angel Zoto]

thanks guys …called the client and he mentioned that effect was not suppose to be in the revised project they sent me …so I really appreciated the help..

-A

[Ryan Hensley]

I need help in restoring an effect. I accidentally deleted Color Balance thinking I had a duplicate effect. Oops! Anyhow, I need to restore this effect and was wondering if there was a way to do it without having to reinstall the entire program from scratch. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Ryan Hensley
ryan@ryanedits.com

[Eric Everts]

What effect would be able to replace “optical flares” that is missing from my project?

[Michael Szalapski]

Knoll Light Factory
Or you could use AE’s built-in lens flare effect. There are also tutorials out there for building your own lens flare.

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