Create and open projects, Save and back up projects – Adobe After Effects CS4 User Manual
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USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Projects and compositions
Last updated 12/21/2009
Project links embedded in QuickTime, Video for Windows, FLV, and F4V files
When you render a movie and export it to a container format, you can embed a link to the After Effects project in the
container file. Container formats include FLV, F4V, QuickTime (MOV), and Video for Windows (AVI).
To import the project, import the container file, and choose Project from the Import As menu in the Import File dialog
box. If the container file contains a link to a project that has been moved, you can browse to locate the project.
Create and open projects
Only one project can be open at a time. If you create or open another project file while a project is open, After Effects
prompts you to save changes in the open project, and then closes it. After you create a project, you can import footage
into the project.
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To create a project, choose File
> New
> New Project.
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To open a project, choose File
> Open Project, locate the project, and then click Open.
Jeff Almasol provides a script on his
composition in the current project.
Lloyd Alvarez provides a script on his
template project that After Effects opens each time that After Effects starts.
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Import an After Effects project
Save and back up projects
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To save a project, choose File
> Save.
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To save a copy of the project with a new automatically generated name, choose File
> Increment And Save, or press
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift+S (Mac OS).
A copy of the current project is saved in the same folder as the original project. The name of the copy is the name of
the original followed by a number. If the name of the original ends with a number, that number is increased by 1.
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To save the project with a different name or to a different location, choose File
> Save As.
The open project takes the new name and location; the original file remains unchanged.
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To save the project as a copy in the XML project file format, choose File
> Save A Copy As XML. (See “
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To save a copy of the project with a different name or to a different location, choose File
> Save A Copy.
The open project retains its original name and location, and a copy is created with the new settings but is not opened.
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To automatically save copies of projects at regular intervals, choose Edit > Preferences
> Auto-Save (Windows) or
After Effects
> Preferences
> Auto-Save (Mac OS), and select Automatically Save Projects.
Auto-saved files are saved in the Adobe After Effects Auto-Save folder, which is located in the same folder as the
original project file. Auto-saved filenames are based on the project name: After Effects adds “auto-save n” (where n is
the number of the file in the auto-save series) to the end of the filename. Maximum Project Versions specifies how
many versions of each project file you want to save. When the number of versions saved reaches the maximum you
specify, the Auto-Save feature overwrites them starting with the oldest file.
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To save a copy of the project and copies of assets used in the project to a single folder on disk, use the Collect Files
command. (See “