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geoffreya28176583
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December 1, 2018
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Unable to import Character Animator scene into Ae

  • December 1, 2018
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Hello

On the Adobe site it mentions 2 ways of importing a CA scene into Ae. The first way is to simply drag the CA scene onto the Ae project window. This gives the error message: Failed to connect to Adobe Dynamic Link project (86::1).The second way is to choose File - import file. This results in the error message: The project could not be opened. A Youtube video from 2016 (I am using cc2019) recommends choosing Export - PNG sequence and WAV and saving it. All the PNGs are then listed plus the WAV file. However, when in Ae I choose Smart Import.jsx and drag it down to form a comp, only the visuals are on display and the WAV Is absent. If someone could please explain why this is happening I would be very grateful.

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Geoff Axon

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    Jonathan David5CEF
    Jonathan David5CEF
    Participant
    November 5, 2021

    I had the same issue. Been troubleshooting unsuccessfully for days until I noticed that the dynamiclinkmanager was the problem (I'm on a Mac). Forced quit it via Activity Monitor and voilà Affter Effects recognizes my CA-files again. Maybe this is helpful to someone...

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    Alex Dullard253909063fkd
    Participant
    July 26, 2022

    Thank you so much, this solved my problem too. Thought I was going to have to dig up an old computer where my project worked!

    benreid
    benreid
    Participant
    December 17, 2018

    Same issue. After effects has a dynamic link issue trying to import characters. After Effects will not allow Dynamic Link.

    After Effects Error: Failed to connect to Adobe Dynamic Link Project. ( 86 :: 1 )

    Have tried:

    Reboot

    Reinstall

    Moved files to local internal disk

    Upgrade to CC19

    Downgrade to CC18

    Removed Plugins

    Removed suitcase Fusion

    None have worked. Running Mac OSX Mojave 10.14.1.

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    BretGarcia
    Participant
    January 15, 2020

    Im facing the same problem now, Im using CC 2020, Have you uys found a solution for this?

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