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OLD PROJECT FROM AE 5.5 WON’T SAVE IN AE(CS)8
Hi All –
I have an old After Effects project from a few years back that I have to re-visit for a client. The original project was saved in After Effects 5.5, I am trying to save it in a (newly-installed) version of After Effects (CS) 8. The project opens fine, I can modify it fine, but if I try to save it with a different name, AE crashes. If I try to save as a copy, the same thing happens. I trashed the preferences and tried again, with no luck.
I am able to create a new project in AE (CS)8 and save it fine, so I don’t believe it’s an OS problem, the problem seems to be particular to this (old) AE 5.5 project.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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How about importing the project into a CS3 one and saving it? Or perhaps find someone to save in 6.5 then 7 then CS3 maybe the funky code will clear up.
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Thanks, Andrew. I actually tried that (importing it into a new project), with no luck. I would still crash if I tried to save.
(and, as far as finding someone with the older version of AE that was in my area, I had no luck, so I was resigned to make it work with the new version…)
We determined that the project would save fine if the Photoshop files (which were also created in an old version of Photoshop) were removed from the project. (However this did us little good being that we needed those files for the project) – So, I re-saved them in the current version of Photoshop, opened the project and tried to save again, still no luck.
After hours of scouring the chat boards, (and the help of a tech support person at Adobe who helped to isolate the problem), what I ended up doing was importing a folder that had all the Photoshop files I had saved in the newest version of Photoshop, and replaced each “old Photoshop” file in the individual compositions with the one I had saved in the newer version – I put the new layer on top of the old, copied the keyframes, and deleted the old layer. After all the old Phoshop files were removed from the compositions, as well as the project, it saved fine.
A very lengthy and painful fix, but it did the job.
Anyhow, thanks again for your suggestion…
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