If it was rendered to Quicktime you can bring the QT into AE and hit CMD-E (edit original).

That will load (or try to load)  the AE project that created the QT.

We use this all the time and it amazes everybody I show….

A while ago I wrote a script that would show you the file name of the AE project but it was a bit buggy so I didn’t put it out into the world.

Phil

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On Nov 30, 2017, at 8:30 AM, Allen Ellis <AE-List@media-motion.tv> 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

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