Project Manager Moving After Effects Linked Files

Hi!
When using the project manager to move the files in Premiere Pro dynamically linked After Effects files are not moved. How can you move After Effects files with the project manager?

Hey friends!
The problem hides insight the path-length of the files that are been created by collecting!!!
In most cases the collect-based generated folder-paths will be to long. The problem isnt inside the folder structure of the original project.
Try to collect the whole project onto your desktop and everything should be fine.

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Hi Mat,
I think I've found at last the solution to your problem; it doesn't seem to me very logical but anyhow it worked so as the French say goes " against ill fate, good heart" (not sure this should the proper translation!)
As to be in your position I worked with my project in the same way. Briefly my project includes a prologue of the Eruption of Vesuvius of 79 AD which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. In the time line I have some shots of the Vesuvius, in total some 30 seconds split into 4 or 5 clips.
My purpose here is to eliminate from the Vesuvius' cliffs any traces of the actual XX-XXIst century life, roads, trails, cars, observatories, trails inside the volcano of scientists going to take measures.
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a/I'm not familiar with it,
b/ the shot is practically static, hence not the use of the tracker method; the helicopter's movement has been obviously slowed down in post or may be while shooting and it is very stable. you have on 1st picture the original footage a
After some 900+strokes I decided to stop and encode the project as to check how it all looked like. Amazing! lol! The music gives you the creeps in the pyroclastics surges views! Cecil B. de Mille can give back his apron! lol!
But I realized that at a particular moment when the helicopter's parallax with the Vesuvius had changed significantly then the border trail was again partly visible especially the triangle where the seismic observatory is located today; you can see clearly some strokes which were not done correctly and have to be changed on the preview in the second picture.
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As i had saved my AE and Ppr Projects and closed the programs I was in the exact situation of yours. I opened Ppr and when I asked the program to reopen the modified clip in AE, It did so but the layer was absent! So I decided to open immediately the AE project saved earlier and then I found my layer made my new corrections and saved again the AE project while in the meantime all the new modifications were automatically transferred in a new instance visible in the project panel. I transferred this on the time line and cleared the old one.and to make sure I would not make mistakes later, I used the remove unused command in the Edit menu.
It shows here(the cerulean label above my AE projects bin) :
As I'll do again such operations I'll create a dedicated bin for these kind of AE projects to differentiate from my regular imported AE projects into Ppr.
Final state of volcano at the same place:
I don't know if this is the right procedure but the fact is it works and what makes me furious is that unless I have to change my spectacles or consult immediately an ophthalmologist , I have not found a trace of explanation anywhere in the help files online, I've checked numerous videos on youtube by young, middle aged or seniorissimo specialists tutorials and no one treat that very elementary aspect problem you and I had to deal with. Of course for someone working in the business for 100 years it's obvious, but thank god I don't intend to wait till I'll be perfectly gaga to find this kind of solution. Nothing is superfluous in an explanation, never forget what happened to a poor animal whose mistress put to dry in her microwave with the result you may imagine. She had the courage to sue the manufacturer for not having stated in the manual that a microwave was not a hair dryer! And she obtained an enormous damages settlement!
I hope the old bag I am has procured you the solution, I'm just an amateur and likely to remain so, as to paraphrase Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady!
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A s for the use of different versions of programs:
First: as advised by all the guys here I've taken the habit to use the full version of CC and not to mix an older one with a new CC one; I use here AE CC to its latest version and Ppr CC at the same updated moment. So there won't be discrepancies due to slight changes which create compatibility problems. I've had a huge problem once and it served me as a lesson. By the way I also have set up the autosave of all my programs to 5'.It can be annoying but when a problem occurs you're glad not to have to redo 1h work!
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hi guys
ive still not sorted this issue out, im thinking its a simple fix but i just cant get it right .
im using cs 5.5 . i work on a project in premiere pro and do a right click on the footage , then select , replace with after effects composition.
after effects opens up , i do all my effects and when i view it in premiere, it all works fine.
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hi guys
ive still not sorted this issue out, im thinking its a simple fix but i just cant get it right .
im using cs 5.5 . i work on a project in premiere pro and do a right click on the footage , then select , replace with after effects composition.
after effects opens up , i do all my effects and when i view it in premiere, it all works fine.
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