[Steve Bentley]

It may be that CS3 does not recognize the file format because of the extension. I have found I have to save without extension out of my text editor. Then add the .aep extension to the newly saved file (check the get info box of the file to make sure it doesn’t have two extensions now).
When you import to CS3 make sure you set the import type to Project.

[Steve Bentley]

To help out future enquiries in and around this topic, and to make the manual more clear;

to join two different splines you must first connect the splines (function menu) then you can pick segments or points along each segment and use join segment (structure/spline menu).
(When you connect the two splines a single new spline (with a gap(s) will be created that is made up of both segments; aka your two old splines – you can then turn off the old ones and select the points you wish to join on this new multi spline object).
If you have two splines that you wish to turn into a continuous spline, and after connecting and joining the first set of points you can’t get the last two to join, don’t worry, just use the close spline button in the attributes box for this object.

SB

[Steve Bentley]

I had tried those as well – as a matter of course I’m usually a “==true” kind of guy anyway, and never testing for the string of 1.
However this morning I have gone back to an older version of our project and it does seem to work there(== true). So either all the extra code I have added since(and there is a lot) has taken AE over a high water mark or the comp is simply corrupt – just the comp not the project.

Attempting it with the same inner comp and a new outer comp works just fine. I have tried replacing the layer in the bad outer comp with a new one and a new checkbox, still no joy. It’s interesting that my corruption is also returning a “1”, as well.

Thanks for the response.

Cheers,
Steve B

[Steve Bentley]

It seems it’s not just a checkbox issue.
If I make a new solid on the inner comp and link its opacity, say, to a layer in the outer comp, when I close out the pick whipped expression, AE tells me there is no such layer named for the one I just picked and disables the new expression.
I could begrudgingly accept this if all the other expressions that are currently running in the inner comp using data accessed from the outer weren’t working, and the entire cross comp expression routine was failing, but the Checkbox test and this new routine are the only ones that fail – all others, and there are a lot of them, are working fine.
Have I hit a high water mark?

Cheers,
SB

[Steve Bentley]

But it does not accept the new name of the “reconnected file.
And if you choose “use clip name” in the media manager, it substitutes the old file (the name that appears in the time line) and not the new one that you had reconnected to.

SB