Re: Handing over AE projects....?

I agree with Grinner on this one. They may not even have nefarious motives. I once requested some animation project files from a company we subcontracted with and they handed them over with a smile.

It's been five years now, and we've never even touched the files - we don't even have the software in house to open them. I knew we didn't have the software to open it when I asked them for the files.

Meanwhile, we've continued to use their services fairly often, for both revisions and other jobs.

So, you may ask, why did we even ask for the files if they were just gonig to sit in a vault? Because, as a prime contractor on a job, we had an obiligation to manage the project and make sure it was wrapped up tight and archived well when it was done. If the other business closes up and we need to go back, we already have the files. Or maybe not... they may have just given us garbled data. ;-) The world may never know.