Adobe After Effects Must be installed to import this file

[lesliek1]

When trying to "replace with After Effects composition" I get the error message above.  I have seen many others with the same issue and logged out and rebooted as suggested and it still doesn't work.  I am using version 17.0.1 of After Effects and 14.0 of Premiere Pro.  What do I need to do to get this functionality to work?  Seems it's going on for years...?

[digitalarts.media]

Hi Sergio. Thanks for your insight. I have the full version of Resolve which I began using several years ago. I find it's a fully featured application and since it has Fusion built in, I have never had "linking" issues like this thread is about. It's color correction tools are unmatched, as well. (I don't often use captions so thanks for pointing out that potential stumbling block.) I still use Premiere, mostly for legacy projects like the one that prompted my original message. It seems this linking issue is not being addressed by Adobe, however. I realize that all modern software is complex but when you make something like dynamic linking integral to your product, it really should be a high priority when an egregious bug like this becomes known. 

I'm not sure what to tell my client and I really don't want to spend more hours in fruitless "workarounds". This is the source of my frustation. Thanks for your excellent reply, however!

[Sergio-CS]

Hey, I really feel your pain. I was in the final stages of the first episode of a travel show for Netflix...and when exporting, I discovered that the central channels of 5.1 DD don't get exported!!! This means voice, voiceovers, music, and central effects are all gone, muted...so I had to find a crazy workaround to deliver...now hoping for a fix from Adobe...we are in the same boat...we should share a beer and some good stories LOL 

[Ando0o0]

The only thing that worked for me was to erase my entire boot drive and start fresh. So far one day in and all is fine. However I lost a day of work just setting up the computer with my raid drivers and programs again, not to mention shortcuts and settings for each program. Not an easy task but I recommend this step at least once per year to clean out the boot drive. 

[Mariah26071353kbx5]

Still not working on most current versions of PP and AE 😞

[GVBR02]

I'm also experiencing this issue. I've uninstalled PP and AE then reinstalled. They are both the same version (2023); however, I still get the "After Effects 2023 must be installed to import  this file" error. This is making my lose valuable time. I'm very frustrated with Adobe. It seems that several people are experiencing this issues with no resolution.

[Sergio-CS]

Did you try the solution in my post?

1.  uninstall Ae and remove all preferences
2. install again Ae
3. open all Ae files (an alarm will pop up asking to update to the latest version), update the version, and over-write (save with the exact same name by deleting the [converted] part that gets added by Ae by default)
4.  once all files are up to date, open the Pr file, and all Ae in the timeline will play...

Hope this helps

[amira26135896]

having the same problem ... very frustrating

[Neon Gorilla]

I have fixed this issue after trying all the suggested fixes, and this hasn't been mentioned anywhere.

For MAC go to Security & privacy > full disk access. Then tick/check the following;

• After Effects
• Premiere pro
• Media encoder
• aerendercore 

aerendercore disk permissions seems to be the key to this problem, I had all the above ticked apart from that and still getting the error. Now it works.

[Alfie5ED3]

Hi,

if you already updated your after effects, you can try restarting your computer(mac) then try opening your premiere again. If that doesnt link up, go to creative cloud and there should be a new AF rason why it doesnt link. constantly needs updating that goes to (BETA)

[BWGraphic]

try relinking the media by right clicking on the item you want to replace with the AE content and click link media... relocate the AE file and that might work - it fixed this problem for me

[hello.ahay]

It's simply unnaceptable that this issue is still happening. 

I've had the same problem multiple times and have had to remake entire sequenes to carry on working. I've tried all the usual uninstall, permissions, preferences fixes and none are working consistently. Get your act together Adobe, Unreal are coming and I'm more than happy to jump ship. I've spent the last two hours trying to fix a project that was working this morning. And it's still not fixed. And my client is waiting. Stop messing about with Firefly and emply some developers to make your programs stable and fast.

[Big Ciangus]

I sloved this problem by getting rid of (converted) in the aep project file's name, thereby reverting it to its original name.

The message "Adobe After Effects 2024 must be installed to import this file." came up for me when I was re-opening an old project and Premiere and After Effects were going through the motions of making me resave the project files for compatibility.