AE Collect and Relink issue

[supermario2210]

I have a question regarding the Collect function.

A study colleague of mine was sending me a Collect of a project which was working fine.

I did make all the changes and send him back just the project file.

He has all the data on his PC. When he is opening the project he has to reconnect all the footage by hand from all the differen locations again as after the collect the whole Path changed.

Is there any way to tell AE the old structure again without doing this?

There is even a report that AE generates from the collect where all the original paths are listed.

Maybe this could be used somehow to do it. I would really appreciate if someone could help me on that.

thank you very much

All the best

Mario

[Mylenium]

Lonmg and short: No. That's just what a collect does - it creates its own predefined structure. Everything else would require to use a script. Feel free to scan over AEScripts.com. Maybe something usable already exists. However, there is one small glimmer of hope here. One is to tell your colleagues to create proxies for the files that can be toggled on and off and another way might be to simply import the projects into the otehr project and run a consolidate files. This may at least find some of the duplicates and automatically relinking them while removing the defunct duplicates. Other than that you really have to agree to common procedures and file structures with your collaborators to avoid such issues. There's only so much any program can do.

Mylenium

[supermario2210]

cheers for the fast answer

Will check AEScripts.com

If I find something I will let you know.

greetings

Mario

[Martin_Ritter]

If you are doing this regularly, it would be time saving to put all footage in one place once.

When reconneting, you just have to reconnect one file and AE will find all the others, since they are in the same path.

If you are creating this path on both systems, nobody needs to relink anything when sharing the project file.

*Martin