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Cymascopic
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August 1, 2019
Question

Consolidate All Footage not working

  • August 1, 2019
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So i'm trying to use the 'Consolidate All Footage' feature in the dependencies menu but it's not working.

I've checked the footage using the 'reveal in explorer' function and a bunch of instances point to the same file, but after effects wont consoldidate duplicate instances of footage. I don't want to go through one by one and consolidate these manually.

2 replies

Shivangi_Gupta
Community Manager
Shivangi_GuptaCommunity Manager
Community Manager
August 2, 2019

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for reaching out. Consolidating the unused footage is a good way of reducing the project's size.

Adding to what @Mylenium asked for and @Rick Gerard suggested, I'd to share this link: Working with footage items in After Effects

Check this out and let us know if you are following the same workflow keeping the conditions mentioned in mind.

Thanks,

Shivangi

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KDuece
Participant
September 8, 2023

Consolidate all footage has stopped working for me; I noticed it wouldn't consolidate layers of photoshop files a year or so ago, but now doesn't seem to work at all. I'm on Mac OS 12.4, Ae 23.5.0

 

See this screen shot - I have several instance of the same png - same name, same file path, same everything. Ae will not consolidate them.

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    Jonas33876031tfki
    Participating Frequently
    February 29, 2024

    It absolutely DOES NOT WORK still in 2024 😞

      Mylenium
      Mylenium
      Legend
      August 1, 2019

      Without any more specific info nobody can tell you why it may not be working. What footage? Where is it used? What system?

      Mylenium

      R
      Community Expert
      Rick GerardCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      August 1, 2019

      If you have duplicated footage in the Project Panel After Effects will not remove those duplicates or search through your project and replace every instance of the footage with just one of them.

      There are quite a few reasons that this is not a good idea for most projects.

      If the duplicates of the footage are used in separate comps you can select only the comps you want to keep in the Project Panel and choose Reduce Comp to clean up the project.

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      CymascopicAuthor
      Inspiring
      August 15, 2019

      Thanks for your response Rick,

      Could you please you explain why this would not be a good idea if the file, location of file, and interpritation settings are identical for each instance in the project panel.

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