AE Workflow Tip #5: How to Find Missing Footage

AE Workflow Tips #5: How to Find Missing Footage

A CreativeCOW After Effects Video Tutorial

CreativeCOW presents AE Workflow Tips #5: Locate Missing Footage--Video Training by Aharon Rabinowitz

Aharon Rabinowitz
New York, USA

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In this tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to locate missing footage and other elements in your After Effects project.

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Re: AE Workflow Tip #5: How to Find Missing Footage
by Ty Frey

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I agree with above. Is there any easy way to see a complete list of all missing files? With hundreds of assets in an overwhelming amount of subfolders it takes quite a bit of time simply to find after effect's link to the missing file, even before searching for the file itself!

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Re: AE Workflow Tip #5: How to Find Missing Footage
by meisha katz

This is a great tutorial, but I was hoping to learn how to find a missing file in the Project pamel. I know the file path will be italic and the footage will show as color bars, but I wish AE would give a list of missing files, instead making us dig around the project panel for them. (I've been wishing that since AE was Cosa software.)

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