Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #44701
From: Greg Balint <greg@delrazor.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] opening old AE file
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:09:43 -0400
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Honestly, I don't know if I'd go through all the effort for an animation done so long ago.  Does the client pay you for backups of that age?

Personally I would tell the client it was done in an older version of the software that is no longer available and that remaking the animation would be a better choice to update it with today's design style / tech availability.  What took you possibly many hours in 97 may take only one or two with the tech and skills you have now. Plus they'll have an HD version. 

You also get paid to do new work instead of rehashing for cheap or free. 

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Greg Balint
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On Friday, June 29, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Tim Sassoon wrote:

Be nice if Adobe had a web-based project migrator.

Tim


On Jun 29, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Chris Meyer wrote:

In addition to keeping as many versions of After Effects on one computer as possible, this is why we've also archived some old laptops "frozen in time" with older versions of After Effects and the OS, including old plug-ins. We recently had to re-render an old project for YouTube; we took the opportunity to clean up some issues that we now know the workarounds for but which we hadn't figured out back then.

- Chris


On Jun 29, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Todd Kopriva wrote:

After Effects 7 should be able to import that.

-----Original Message-----
From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On
Behalf Of simhoff@aol.com
Sent: 29June2012 15:41
To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: [AE] opening old AE file

I've been asked to make some changes on an animation done in MacAE
version 3 in 1997! Yikes!!!


Anyone know what the last version of After Effects was that would open
an old file like that and would the file open at all on an Intel Mac?


thanks,
Sandy


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