Moving composition from one project to another…

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I might be missing something – it’s late and I am wiped out – I’d open a blank comp and import both AEP’s into it (You can choose File > Import > File, and AE project is one of the options).

Then twirl everything down until you find the 2 comps you want to keep.

Select File > Reduce Project

Everything not related to these 2 projects will be removed.

If you have any duplicate references to the same file, this next step will clean that up:

File > Consolidate all footage.

Then just reorganize the stuff in the project panel.

If you need to understand this better, check out these 2 tutorials:

Importing Projects:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/Workflow_7.php

Cleaning up your projects (in a tutorial on multi machine rendering):

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/multi_machine_rend.php

Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web

[Alex Tsakiris]

perfect… many thx for sharing this.

[Keith Neuendorff]

On a somewhat related note…

Using the import (as suggested in one of the above referenced tutorials) is a good way to move Compositions between projects to make them “behave” better and not cause AE to crash.

My specific case was that I had a project that kept getting more complex and ended up where it would not open successfully on my laptop (a decent Core2 Duo Windows machine but with only 3Gig of RAM). To fix this I opened AE with no initial project and did an import on the project that would not normally open. AE complained a bit with some popups but did succeed in opening the project. I cleared out about half of the compositions and media, saved the project under a new name. I repeated this to recover the other half of the compositions and now all of the projects work nicely again.

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One nice additional tip is that if you start deleting compositions from an imported project, I suggest clearing out the Render Queue because AE complains and then sometimes crashes the next time it tries to open the project when it finds references to previoiusly rendered items in the Render Queue that no longer exist in the Project.

Keith Neuendorff
Tiny Robot Media
Austin, TX

[Daniel Oliveira prins]

Use save comp as project script. And import your project into a new project.