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What is the name of the feature: when I import a Camera File into AE
and After Effects somehow learns and never forgets if something happened, colorwise, to that file. I have noticed that if I open the CR in Photoshop and color it crazy (so I know I’m now) the new coloration appears in the AE composition. However, if I close Photoshop without saving changes, the AE instance of the file holds on to that old color information. I tried deleting the extra .xmp files that PS made, but it still holds onto color info.
What is this called? I tried, “Dynamic Link” but that doesn’t seem to be it. I want AE to ignore what other apps do and just import the plain, vanilla, file.
Maybe it’s how I’m importing the files, as a Camera Raw Sequence. Perhaps it would be better for this workflow if I just imported a bunch of single images (stop-motion frames) and then turned them into footage in AE?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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Interpret Footage.
To access the Adobe Camera Raw controls for an image or a sequence, select it in the Project panel, right-click it, and select “Interpret footage > Main…” from the context menu. (You could also select the footage and use the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+G on a PC or Cmd+Opt+G on a Mac.)
At the bottom of the Main Options tab, there’s a button marked “More Options…”. If you click that, it’ll open the Adobe Camera Raw interface.
Walter Soyka
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Thanks very much Walter, for the name of the thing and the details about accessing it. I adjusted some settings and it looks like that will do the trick!
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