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Culture Cleaver
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February 10, 2022
Question

After Effects (2021) won't open Adobe Animate 2021 projects..

  • February 10, 2022
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Is there any solution to this?
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After Effects wont open my animation projects, it can still open swf. files,
but not my adobe animate projects.
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Current Builds:
Adobe Animate CC V.2021.0.1 [Build 3719]
Adobe After Effects V.18.1.0 [Build 38]

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Animatrr
Inspiring
February 12, 2022

Culture Cleaver, FLA is a document format, It cant encode that, encode it through media encoder then put it through After Effects.

Mario_CR
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 12, 2022

That's a different topic. It's not about encoding, After Effects can import FLAs as layered SWFs since 2019 https://youtu.be/-ewe8aGGGFk

Mario_CR
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 10, 2022

In publish settings, did you check the "Optimize for After Effects" box?

If that's not it, you can still choose "SWF Archive" from the same window to generate the layered SWFs directly instead of relying on After Effects' conversion.

Culture Cleaver
Participating Frequently
February 10, 2022

Thanks, but I already checked that setting. Still, After Effects refuses to import my fla. files..

Mario_CR
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 10, 2022

Go with SWF Archive then.

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 10, 2022

it's not clear what you mean by "animation project", but Supported file formats in After Effects (adobe.com)

Culture Cleaver
Participating Frequently
February 10, 2022

Ah, my bad. But specifically, After Effects won't accept my fla. projects.

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 10, 2022

what makes you think ae can open a fla file?