AFX Projects messed up

Hello there. I just got my new computer up and running, so I naturally moved my After Effects projects from the hard-drive of my old computer to hard-drive of new one. I'm quite sure I got all files used in projects etc, but I now I face some serious problems. Projects do open up just fine and find video files they need, but all in/out points and such are messed ups. Clips start and end at wrong times. It would be a lot of work to do everything again, this is rather a large project divided into dozen project files involving hundreds of clips.
Anyone know solution to this one? I could really use some help here. Using After Effects CS4.
Thanks.

StScoundrel wrote:
The .mp4 files seem to use basic quicktime codecs and I do have quicktime... Using After Effects CS4.
I'm surprised you got mp4 files to work in AE 9 on your old machine. I think you have been very lucky, but your luck didn't carry over to your new machine.
On the Creative COW, I often write the following to people who use long-gop footage and don't have AE 10:
"If the footage you imported into AE is any kind of the following -- footage in an HDV acquisition codec, MPEG1, MPEG2, AVCHD, mp4, mts, m2t, H.261 or H.264 -- you need to convert it to a different codec.
These kinds of footage use temporal, or interframe compression. They have keyframes at regular intervals, containing complete frame information. However, the frames in between do NOT have complete information. Interframe codecs toss out duplicated information.
In order to maintain peak rendering efficiency, AE needs complete information for each and every frame. But because these kinds of footage contain only partial information, AE freaks out, resulting in a wide variety of problems.
I'm a Mac guy, so I like to convert to Quicktime movies in the Animation or PNG codecs; both are lossless. I'll use Apple's Compressor, Adobe Media Encoder or Quicktime Pro to do it."

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