Jamie reopened After Effects. The project file? Corrupted. The last manual save was from 10 PM — four hours of keyframing, easing, and expression writing, gone. The autosave folder? Empty, because Jamie had never checked where CC 2018 stored them.
By 8 AM, the video was re-rendered and delivered. The client loved it.
Jamie was a motion design student with a tight deadline. For a client project, they had built a 30-second explainer video in After Effects CC 2018 — complete with particle systems, track mattes, and a dozen shape layers all linked to sliders for easy animation.
Inside: a file named “Client_Project_v3_Autosave.aep” — timestamp 2:28 AM, just two minutes before the crash.
Jamie navigated to: Users/[username]/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/After Effects/18.0/Auto-Save/
Jamie reopened After Effects. The project file? Corrupted. The last manual save was from 10 PM — four hours of keyframing, easing, and expression writing, gone. The autosave folder? Empty, because Jamie had never checked where CC 2018 stored them.
By 8 AM, the video was re-rendered and delivered. The client loved it.
Jamie was a motion design student with a tight deadline. For a client project, they had built a 30-second explainer video in After Effects CC 2018 — complete with particle systems, track mattes, and a dozen shape layers all linked to sliders for easy animation.
Inside: a file named “Client_Project_v3_Autosave.aep” — timestamp 2:28 AM, just two minutes before the crash.
Jamie navigated to: Users/[username]/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/After Effects/18.0/Auto-Save/
