From: "Henry Birdseye" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] Finding which AEP rendered a file
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:35:21 -0500
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A little roundabout, but if you load up the QT in Premiere Pro, you can 
right click it and "edit original" and it'll spit out the name of the 
aep and you can search for it.


On 11/30/2017 11:30 AM, Allen Ellis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We're playing a game of "find the missing project file" for an .AEP 
> that didn't end up where it was supposed to. I have this distant 
> memory that there is an obscure way to determine which project file 
> created the .movs we have.
>
> I remember that the source path is somewhere in the file, and that it 
> wasn't plainly vieweable with the rest of the XML metadata, but you 
> somehow had to re-import your footage into After Effects and do some 
> weird magic to make it reveal its original author.
>
> Am I just dreaming all of this? I'm trying to search but can't even 
> think of any decent search terms.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Allen Ellis
> (724) 316-5484
> http://allenellis.com


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    <p>A little roundabout, but if you load up the QT in Premiere Pro,
      you can right click it and "edit original" and it'll spit out the
      name of the aep and you can search for it.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/30/2017 11:30 AM, Allen Ellis
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        <div>Hi all,</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>We're playing a game of "find the missing project file" for
          an .AEP that didn't end up where it was supposed to. I have
          this distant memory that there is an obscure way to determine
          which project file created the .movs we have.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>I remember that the source path is somewhere in the file,
          and that it wasn't plainly vieweable with the rest of the XML
          metadata, but you somehow had to re-import your footage into
          After Effects and do some weird magic to make it reveal its
          original author.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>Am I just dreaming all of this? I'm trying to search but
          can't even think of any decent search terms.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>Cheers,</div>
        <br clear="all">
        <div>
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              <div>Allen Ellis</div>
              <div>(724) 316-5484</div>
              <div><a href="http://allenellis.com" target="_blank"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">http://allenellis.com</a></div>
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