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How to manage duplicate files in project manager AE.
I am absolutely shocked nobody else seems to have this problem online. I work with a team and I send them animation templates. I use footage files(images) that normally they already have because we have these character images from a videogame we use all the time. But after effects doesn’t have a way to deal with cloned footage. Consolidate all footage doesn’t work because the footage files don’t have the same path, but they’re identical on everything else. Even if I try to replace them with placeholders in the comps to try to relink them afterward, you can’t take a bunch of footage and replace it with placeholders, you have to do it one by one. I don’t understand how to deal with it. Does anybody really not work with template files this way?
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If I have a bunch of footage files all in the same place, but then move all of them to a different folder, they will then show up as unlinked media in my AE project. My expectation based on experience is that re-linking one file from the new location will cause all of the remaining files to re-link if they all reside in the same new location as the one file I just manually re-linked. I don’t see why this wouldn’t work for you in the scenario you’re describing. Footage files would need to have identical file names, but simply finding one missing media file should cause all of the others to become “found” as long as they’re all in the same folder as the piece of footage that you re-linked manually.
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if you have the same character files as your team and are sending open project updates one to another you can try a couple of things:
1 – if both teams use footage with the same names but different paths, when you replace the first file AE should be able to find others (as long names match)
2 – you can collect files instead of consolidating3 – you and your team could use a cloud service to sync files through multiple computers so paths and names stay consistent and eliminate the need to package the project to send.
4 – if you are an enterprise user you can try to work on a team project. (works in the same way as a cloud project but with better in-built tools like multiple people editing the same project)hope this can help with your issue
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