I created a project in AE. While rendering a comp, ae crashed. I restarted it and tried to open the project again. The Open-Dialog shows up but it only goes until 67%, then ae freezes.
I had a Dynamic Link (AE comps in Premiere) and my AE project won't open. Only after I opened the Premiere project with the Dynamic Link my AE project magically opened!
EDIT: My Dynamic Link story is a bit more complicated… turns out I have a Premiere timeline in my AE comp, while using that AE comp in another Premiere timeline. So basically you should try run Premiere with your other project open if you have any troubles 🙂
This is my first post ever in a Forum, and it's not in my language, please pardon my English...
I had the same problem, in march 2018, with the Adobe After Effects CC 2018, running on MacOS Sierra.
None of my Auto-save projects worked, even if imported in a new project. AE freezes during the opening or importing process (57% or 62%). Had to force quitting. Then, I realized I imported a Premiere Pro sequence in my After Effects project, by Dynamic Link.
I just opened my Premiere Pro project, and after that, my AE project magically opened again. So, this may be a Dynamic Link problem...
I hope this may help people having the same issue.
Thank you so much frisalitsch. This right here was the solution for me. Won't lie, a bit of panic was beginning to set in because this is a months-old project with a million keyframes in it, and none of my backups were loading up either.
I actually went out of my way to login just to thank you for this 3 year old comment. I was having the same issue, and forgot i made a new version of my premiere file but the old version was dynamic linked in the after effects file. I just had simple edits to make on a project but no matter what i tried the ae file would not open. It's very weird that you need the premiere project open to work in after effects with dynamic link but you dont need the after effects project open whle working with premiere and dynamic link, and considering its been 3 years and this is still an issue I think they should try and fix that.
It did, thank you! I'm here having the exact same issue with Premiere 2023 and After Effects 2023... Opening Premiere before After Effects made After Effects open, where it got stuck at 5% literally every time before, on two different systems. Thanks again!
Try opening the project on another computer that doesn't have the associated media on it. If the project opens, save, send it back to your computer, and re-connect media until you find the bugger that set it off.
Same Thing happened to me. It was freezing all the time at 42%. The problem seemed to be a bunch of photos that wouldn't link because they were on my local drive and my project was on an external drive. Stupid me saved it on the wrong drive... I'm sure some can relate. So I opened it on my laptop (my other computer) from an external drive. The laptop couldn't see the links so it didn't try to resolve it (the other computer tried to hard - hence the crash) so it declared the photo links dead and replaced 'em all with color bars...BUT...I was able to open the damn file. - The rest is obvious, copied the photo folder in my project on the external drive ( where it should've been in the first place) relinked and saved under another name. Took it back on my main powerful computer and guess what? It worked like a charm. Moral of the story : AE hates complicated links. Look into that with another pc if you can.... It saved me.
I have similar problem. I have some project files that won't open which I started on After Effects CC2018. Now that I've updated to AE CC2019, they will not open. I don't have dynamic links for them, they are purely AE files (along with additional assets like .png/.wav/.mov of course). I try to update the file to CC2019 of course, but it never makes progress past 0%.
I tried the caps lock trick, opening an autosave file, and importing the file into a new project, to which none worked.
At first I moved all my assets (music, logos, footage, etc) into another folder on my harddrive, breaking the link. This allowed me to open the project but everything needed relinking. Ive just tried again however but instead I moved all the files into another folder, including AE Project. And its opened fine for me now. Hope that helps.
I had the same issue, I had a project completely done, it was dynamic linked to prempro and audition and it would not open. I tried pretty much all of the things on this thread, nothing worked, there was a lot of swearing. Then I just renamed the project and hey presto it opened
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