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Organisation of Files
Hello all,
A quick question (and before anyone says it, yes its all my fault)…
I have been working on a project at work and I’m really getting into the workings of after effects. Due to my haste in terms of getting started and experimenting, I have loads of images and files imported and their all in different places and have really crap file names which is going to begin to make things difficult.
Can I move all my files into one directory on my computer (and probably rename a lot of them) and somehow ‘link’ them back togther with my After Effects Project and its compositions?
I feel pretty stupid about this one as keeping a clean workspace and naming the aforementioned files with decent files names is common sense, I just got carried away I suppose… Any advice would be great.
Many Thanks
Christopher Walter
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2 Replies
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Cancel on that people!
I figured it out…
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This is something that After Effects has always been very good at. I never appreciated it until I used Premiere. A word of warning, don’t count on re-linking being so easy in a Premiere project. Premiere loses its track of its footage with the slightest change in directory structure, and it is a giant hassle to relink a Premiere project unless you keep all of your footage in one folder (with no subfolders). I really wish the After Effects team would share their media management code with the Premiere team.
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