Technical ?: Apple AE Project to PC AE Project
by Mark Volzer
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Oct 9, 2008 at 3:37:04 pm
So here's what happened. I was doing special effects for a film me and two of my friends produced. My buddies were cutting it on a mac with avid mojo in Memphis, but I have a pc and now live in DC so to get me the files for the movie I went down to visit and bought a 500GB External Drive and formatted it for a mac. I ended up having to partition it into 4 partitions so the mac would accept the drive. At home I had MacDrive 5 installed on my pc so it saw the drive fine as well. Well everything worked fine until last week when one of the partitions went bad. Now I can plug the drive into a mac at work and it will see the other partitions fine, but if I plug the drive into my pc the system freezes up. So I transferred all the data from the good partitions to a pc formatted external drive thinking that would work, but my pc won't recognize the after effects project files. Is there some way to either transcode the mac ae project files into pc project files or to get my pc to recognize them?
Re: Technical ?: Apple AE Project to PC AE Project by Dave LaRonde on Oct 9, 2008 at 3:51:31 pm
[Mark Volzer]"I transferred all the data from the good partitions to a pc formatted external drive thinking that would work, but my pc won't recognize the after effects project files. Is there some way to either transcode the mac ae project files into pc project files or to get my pc to recognize them?"
Before you despair, remember this: there are at least three different ways to open an AE project file: drag the file onto the AE application icon, double-click on the project file, plus you can start AE and use the File>Open command. There may be others that I just plain forgot. If you haven't tried 'em all at home, you still might have success.
You could also create a new AE project at home, and import the balky project files into it. This also can be a way to resurrect a file.
If none of those methods work, does the Mac at work read the AE project files? If so, you could save them under different names, which creates new project files. You could then try the new files at home.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: Technical ?: Apple AE Project to PC AE Project by Mark Volzer on Oct 9, 2008 at 5:11:38 pm
Thanks. I tried everything except importing the project files into another project. I'm going to upgrade my MacDrive to 7 when I get home. I think that might help. If not I may get another hard drive and format it for mac then transfer the files on the mac at work onto the mac formatted drive and see if my pc at home will recognize it.
