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# After Effects project import
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-11-05 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** an item made from one layer of a Photoshop file shows that layer (#3087); before that: dropped projects and projects picked in File ▸ Import ▸ File… import as projects, several asked about one at a time; `file.import` hands them to `file.importAep`; the menu entries are named Adobe After Effects Project… (#3103); before that: After Effects' Puppet arrives as EffectCraft's Puppet without its meshes and pins, which are reported mesh by mesh (#3093; the storage is not sampled yet, aep-format 3.7); before that: Lumetri Color's master RGB curve, Hue vs Sat curve and colour wheels are imported (1200 presets made by hand); before that: Lumetri Color is imported (1200: every slider, checkbox and popup with a counterpart, by match name, also from records in the default state; switched-off sections, LUTs, looks, undecoded curves and wheels are reported); before that: the report names the After Effects version a file is written for and the one that wrote it (`aeVersion`); copies saved as 25.x and 24.x import like the 2026 save; before that: Curves and Mesh Warp are imported (961-965, 985; FORMAT S of the corpus); before that: a shape item's eye switch is imported (bit 0 of its group flags, 986 / 987: a switched-off Fill under Trim Paths is no longer drawn, render equal to After Effects), and a layer style's (switch group `tdsb` 0, 988); before that: a negative time stretch (Time Reverse Layer) is imported: in and out point in order, the layer plays backwards (981-983: render equal to After Effects at 7 points); before that: After Effects' None on Compound Blur, Displacement Map and Set Matte arrives as an explicit None (`NO_LAYER`), not as the owning layer; before that: layer styles are imported (the nine styles and Blending Options, 951-979; Global Light becomes the composition's); before that: the 27 effects of round 3 are in the table (`effectcraft_aep::effect_map`); before that: a layer of a clip, sequence or sound ends at its source's end (After Effects ends it there when it opens a project, read-back test f1), unless it is remapped or looped or runs less than a frame past; before that: keys of shape colours are read (the reader took their 152-byte spatial records for plain ones: `tdb4` byte 7 is 0 there, 854); before that: the effect table moved to `effectcraft_aep::effect_map`; point defaults in percent and a popup default slot of 0 (After Effects' save of a project it opened, e1 / e2 re-saves) are read; before that: the justification of right-to-left paragraphs is read relative to the direction (t7); before that: 24 more layer blend modes (906, 907); before that: 27 more effects are imported (batch 6: 903-905), with layer parameters; before that: a Rec. 709 working space also sets the output space (After Effects renders in the working space, 902); before that: a mask whose path was never set arrives as the source rectangle (900, 901); before that: Offset Paths' Copy Offset arrives as EffectCraft's (After Effects' value minus 1, 828); before that: project settings, image sequences, conformed clips and effect instance names are imported, next to the mattes, shapes, text settings and animators, effects, markers, time remapping, cameras and lights); before that: parallel and ambient lights (701, 702) and keyed Orientation (703) are imported; before that: masks on text and shape layers (705, 706: AE vs EffectCraft render 12 and 0 of 5184 points, glyph edges) and Merge Paths, Offset Paths, Repeater (707-710, 731; merge renders equal but for edges; Repeater copy opacity and Offset Paths' outline differ in EffectCraft's renderer) are imported; before that: keyframes: the ease of Anchor Point, effect point, effect colour and mask path keys is imported (597-599, 700, 730: within 0.5 px of After Effects' read-backs); before that: effects: Directional Blur, Radial Blur, CC Radial Blur, Venetian Blinds, Channel Blur, Black & White, Tritone, Luma Key, Simple Choker, Matte Choker and Transform are imported (711-723; render checks: CC Radial Blur and Channel Blur equal, Directional Blur within 5/255; Venetian Blinds, Radial Blur, Black & White (8/255), Tritone (19/255), Luma Key, Matte Choker and Transform differ in EffectCraft's renderer, see STATUS); before that: text: character and paragraph settings (stroke, scales, baseline shift, kerning, ligatures, tsume, indents, spacing, justified text, composer, direction, vertical text; 538-578) and text animators with range selectors (579-594, 114) are imported; render checks 594 (keyed range selector at 0 / 0.5 / 1 / 1.5 / 2.5 s), 595, 596 equal but for glyph edges; before that: cameras, spot and point lights, X / Y Rotation and Orientation, Timewarp and expressions on effect parameters are imported (render checks 486, 535-537 equal but for edges; 488 differs by 5.25 %, cause in EffectCraft's renderer not isolated); before that: text: superscript and subscript are imported (526-528); before thLine truncated
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-11-05 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-11 · **Change:** an item made from one layer of a Photoshop file shows that layer (#3087); before that: the losses prompt shows every detail line and how many have none (`unlisted`); unmapped effects are listed most used first (#3365); a shape property recorded in the default state is no loss; an expression on Orientation is imported with its value or keys (#3087); before that: dropped projects and projects picked in File ▸ Import ▸ File… import as projects, several asked about one at a time; `file.import` hands them to `file.importAep`; the menu entries are named Adobe After Effects Project… (#3103); before that: After Effects' Puppet arrives as EffectCraft's Puppet without its meshes and pins, which are reported mesh by mesh (#3093; the storage is not sampled yet, aep-format 3.7); before that: Lumetri Color's master RGB curve, Hue vs Sat curve and colour wheels are imported (1200 presets made by hand); before that: Lumetri Color is imported (1200: every slider, checkbox and popup with a counterpart, by match name, also from records in the default state; switched-off sections, LUTs, looks, undecoded curves and wheels are reported); before that: the report names the After Effects version a file is written for and the one that wrote it (`aeVersion`); copies saved as 25.x and 24.x import like the 2026 save; before that: Curves and Mesh Warp are imported (961-965, 985; FORMAT S of the corpus); before that: a shape item's eye switch is imported (bit 0 of its group flags, 986 / 987: a switched-off Fill under Trim Paths is no longer drawn, render equal to After Effects), and a layer style's (switch group `tdsb` 0, 988); before that: a negative time stretch (Time Reverse Layer) is imported: in and out point in order, the layer plays backwards (981-983: render equal to After Effects at 7 points); before that: After Effects' None on Compound Blur, Displacement Map and Set Matte arrives as an explicit None (`NO_LAYER`), not as the owning layer; before that: layer styles are imported (the nine styles and Blending Options, 951-979; Global Light becomes the composition's); before that: the 27 effects of round 3 are in the table (`effectcraft_aep::effect_map`); before that: a layer of a clip, sequence or sound ends at its source's end (After Effects ends it there when it opens a project, read-back test f1), unless it is remapped or looped or runs less than a frame past; before that: keys of shape colours are read (the reader took their 152-byte spatial records for plain ones: `tdb4` byte 7 is 0 there, 854); before that: the effect table moved to `effectcraft_aep::effect_map`; point defaults in percent and a popup default slot of 0 (After Effects' save of a project it opened, e1 / e2 re-saves) are read; before that: the justification of right-to-left paragraphs is read relative to the direction (t7); before that: 24 more layer blend modes (906, 907); before that: 27 more effects are imported (batch 6: 903-905), with layer parameters; before that: a Rec. 709 working space also sets the output space (After Effects renders in the working space, 902); before that: a mask whose path was never set arrives as the source rectangle (900, 901); before that: Offset Paths' Copy Offset arrives as EffectCraft's (After Effects' value minus 1, 828); before that: project settings, image sequences, conformed clips and effect instance names are imported, next to the mattes, shapes, text settings and animators, effects, markers, time remapping, cameras and lights); before that: parallel and ambient lights (701, 702) and keyed Orientation (703) are imported; before that: masks on text and shape layers (705, 706: AE vs EffectCraft render 12 and 0 of 5184 points, glyph edges) and Merge Paths, Offset Paths, Repeater (707-710, 731; merge renders equal but for edges; Repeater copy opacity and Offset Paths' outline differ in EffectCraft's renderer) are imported; before that: keyframes: the ease of Anchor Point, effect point, effect colour and mask path keys is imported (597-599, 700, 730: within 0.5 px of After Effects' read-backs); before that: effects: Directional Blur, Radial Blur, CC Radial Blur, Venetian Blinds, Channel Blur, Black & White, Tritone, Luma Key, Simple Choker, Matte Choker and Transform are imported (711-723; render checks: CC Radial Blur and Channel Blur equal, Directional Blur within 5/255; Venetian Blinds, Radial Blur, Black & White (8/255), Tritone (19/255), Luma Key, Matte Choker and Transform differ in EffectCraft's renderer, see STATUS); before that: text: character and paragraph settings (stroke, scales, baseline shift, kerning, ligatures, tsume, indents, spacing, justified text, composer, direction, vertical text; 538-578) and text animators with range selectors (579-594, 114) are imported; render checks 594 (keyed range selector at 0 / 0.5 / 1 / 1.5 / 2.5 s), 595, 596 equal but for glyph edges; before that: cameras, spot and point lights, X / Y RotatLine truncated
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File ▸ Import ▸ Adobe After Effects Project… (`file.importAep`) reads an `.aep` or its XML form `.aepx`
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and adds its items to the open project, in a folder named after the file (as After Effects does when it imports a project).
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outside the sampled ones keeps the current value and is reported as `project settings`. After Effects renders in the working space (902: in a Rec. 709 Gamma 2.4 project an sRGB PNG step of 128 comes out as 135 and a grey 0.5 solid as 128, in the Render Queue output and in the captures), while EffectCraft converts its output to `output_space` (sRGB when unset): a Rec. 709 working space therefore also sets the output space to Rec. 709 (902 within 1 level of After Effects, was up to 13). They come in `ImportResult::settings`; the library never changes the project's own settings, `file.importAep` applies them when the project has no compositions yet (or with `applySettings: true`) |
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| Composition | name, size, exact frame rate, duration, work area, background colour (8 bit), pixel aspect, composition motion blur switch, shutter angle and phase (as stored), display start time, Classic/Advanced 3D renderer |
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| Layers | solid, null, adjustment, footage, precomposition and **text** layers: name (the source's name when the layer has none; for a text layer the first 40 characters of its first line, as EffectCraft names a text layer after its text), in/out/start and time stretch (exact ratios, e.g. 50 % and 150 %); a layer of a clip, sequence or sound ends at its source's end as After Effects ends it (unless remapped, looped or less than a frame past; f1), enabled/audio/solo/shy/locked/effects/motion blur/collapse/3D/guide switches, draft quality, label, blend mode (Normal, Multiply, Add, Screen, Overlay, Difference; Soft Light, Hard Light, Darken, Lighten, Exclusion, Color Dodge, Color Burn by name, 906; Classic Difference, Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity, the Stencil and Silhouette modes, Classic Color Dodge / Burn, Linear Dodge / Burn, Linear, Vivid and Pin Light, Hard Mix by render, 907: each code rendered by After Effects matched exactly one EffectCraft mode; 906 renders within 1/255 of After Effects), parent, **track matte** (alpha, alpha inverted, luma, luma inverted; the matte layer anywhere in the composition, also below its target; 402-408) |
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| Transform | Anchor Point, Position, Scale, Rotation, Opacity, **X and Y Rotation** (486, 487) and **Orientation**, static (488) or keyed (703: key values, times, linear and hold sides; a bezier side becomes linear and is reported; After Effects slerps between the keys, EffectCraft interpolates each angle, so in-between values differ, e.g. 703 at 1 s `[6.26, 9.35, 15.22]` against `[5, 10, 15]`; an expression-driven orientation is reported): the stored value, or the default when the file stores none; keyframes with time, linear/bezier/hold on each side, temporal ease (speed and influence, per dimension for Scale), automatic or manual spatial tangents, roving and key labels |
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| Transform | Anchor Point, Position, Scale, Rotation, Opacity, **X and Y Rotation** (486, 487) and **Orientation**, static (488) or keyed (703: key values, times, linear and hold sides; a bezier side becomes linear and is reported; After Effects slerps between the keys, EffectCraft interpolates each angle, so in-between values differ, e.g. 703 at 1 s `[6.26, 9.35, 15.22]` against `[5, 10, 15]`), with its expression as on any property: the stored value, or the default when the file stores none; keyframes with time, linear/bezier/hold on each side, temporal ease (speed and influence, per dimension for Scale), automatic or manual spatial tangents, roving and key labels |
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| Expressions | on the transform and mask properties and on effect, camera and light parameters (534): source text and enable switch |
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| Cameras and lights | **cameras** (one-node and two-node, from `ldta` byte 38 bit `0x40`): point of interest, Position as stored (also the auto Position `[0, 0, -zoom]`, where After Effects renders it, 537), orientation and rotations, Zoom (absent: `-z` of the auto Position, else the 50 mm default), Depth of Field, Focus Distance (absent: the zoom), Aperture (absent: 25.309 at 1920 px, read back from 256; scaled with the width, which is not sampled, E); **spot, point, parallel and ambient lights** (light type 1, 2, 0, 3: 701, 702): point of interest (not for point and ambient lights), Position, Intensity, Color, Cone Angle, Cone Feather, Casts Shadows; keys and expressions as for the transform; 251-256, 341-345, 535-537, 701, 702. Environment lights are reported |
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| Text | the Source Text of a text layer: the text (paragraphs separated by CR; a hard line break is a CR too; U+0003 is laid out by After Effects exactly like a CR (386 against 387) and becomes a CR), per style run the font (PostScript name), size, fill and stroke colour, whether fill and stroke are drawn, stroke width, stroke over fill (one switch for the text), tracking, leading (automatic or explicit), faux bold, faux italic, all caps, small caps, superscript and subscript (526-528), horizontal and vertical scale, baseline shift, automatic kerning (metrics, optical, none), ligatures, tsume (538-578); per paragraph the justification (left, centre, right and the four justified variants), first-line / start / end indent, space before / after, direction, composer, hanging punctuation (in a right-to-left paragraph the stored justification is relative to the direction: After Effects lays 0 and 3 out flush right and 1 and 4 flush left, read-back test t7, so they arrive as right / left); point text or box text (box size and top-left in layer pixels); vertical right-to-left text (575) |
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## What is reported
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`ImportReport` (`serde`, returned as JSON) has `imported` (counts, including `textLayers`),
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`losses` (per category: `count` exact, up to 20 `details`), `missingFootage`, `missingFonts`
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(PostScript names; not losses), `limitations` and `aeVersion`. The categories:
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`losses` (per category: `count` exact; up to 20 `details`, plus one line per unmapped effect with its
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number of instances, the most used first; `unlisted`, how many of the `count` no line describes),
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`missingFootage`, `missingFonts`
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(PostScript names; not losses), `limitations` and `aeVersion`. The losses prompt shows each
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category with how many occurrences are left out or changed, every detail line, and "… and N more"
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for the `unlisted` ones. The categories:
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| `layer_styles` | per layer: a style in switch state 3 (not sampled; state 0 is imported as a style switched off, 988), Pattern Overlay, an unknown style or parameter, a gradient (`GCst`, not decoded: EffectCraft's default gradient stays), keys on a popup or checkbox, a value that does not fit, styles on a layer that takes none here (adjustment, camera, light) |
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| `markers` | a marker with an unknown cue type (imported as an event cue) |
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| `text_layers` ("text layer features") | per text layer, what of it is not imported: wiggly and expression selectors and unmapped animator properties, Path Options or More Options with set values, Source Text keyframes or an expression, character style or paragraph fields that are not decoded and differ from the default (named by their slot, e.g. `/68`), an unknown capitalisation or justification code, manual kerning, No Break, the stroke line join, the Japanese leading model, a digit set other than the default and Arabic, control characters of unknown meaning (they are kept in the text; U+0003 is not one of them, see Text above). The text layer itself is imported |
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| `shape_layers` ("shape layers") | what of a shape layer is not imported: shape items other than groups, rectangle, ellipse, polystar, path, fill, stroke, gradient fill and stroke, trim paths, round corners, merge paths, repeater and offset paths (for example wiggle or twist), stroke dashes, taper and wave with values, item blend modes and composite order, shape direction, gradient colour stops other than the default, gradient highlight values other than 0, material options, groups nested deeper than 32, a line cap or join of the unsampled third kind (imported as it), a path without a readable path. The layer itself is imported |
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| `shape_layers` ("shape layers") | what of a shape layer is not imported: shape items other than groups, rectangle, ellipse, polystar, path, fill, stroke, gradient fill and stroke, trim paths, round corners, merge paths, repeater and offset paths (for example wiggle or twist), stroke dashes, taper and wave with values, item blend modes and composite order, shape direction, gradient colour stops other than the default, gradient highlight values other than 0 (only from written records: one in the default state holds the default), material options, groups nested deeper than 32, a line cap or join of the unsampled third kind (imported as it), a path without a readable path. The layer itself is imported |
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| `lights` | each environment light (the layer is skipped; the other layers of the composition are imported) |
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| `blend_modes` | a blend mode code that is not mapped (1, 3 = Dissolve or Dancing Dissolve, 21 / 22 = Alpha Add or Luminescent Premul, codes above 34; the layer stays Normal) |
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| `transform_properties` | a stored transform property that is not imported (keyed or expression-driven orientation, separated position dimensions), and the stored camera and light options that are not mapped (Blur Level, Iris, Falloff, ...) |
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| `transform_properties` | a stored transform property that is not imported (an orientation that cannot be read, or set on a layer without one, separated position dimensions), and the stored camera and light options that are not mapped (Blur Level, Iris, Falloff, ...) |
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| `time_remapping` | an enabled Time Remap without a readable keyframe |
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| `approximated_keyframes` | a key imported in a simpler form (unknown interpolation code, bezier ease that cannot be decoded: a colour key with a non-zero ease, non-finite ease data; a mask path key with a speed other than 0, imported unverified) |
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| `parent_links` | a parent that was not imported (a skipped camera, a missing layer) or that forms a loop |
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one; `EFFECTCRAFT_GPU_MEMCAP_MB` sets it), keeping room for the upload cache to fill. It
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renders one frame at a time where the memory can't be measured (Metal, WebGPU, GL, or the
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cap turned off) and once frames have had to wait for memory. The render log names the count.
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`EFFECTCRAFT_GPU_INFLIGHT` overrides it. CPU renders have no such setting: they keep one
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frame per thread in flight, so their memory grows with the core count. Set
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`EFFECTCRAFT_CPU_INFLIGHT` to a whole number of frames (at least 1) to cap the frames in
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flight of every Render Queue render and export, `effectcraft-cli render` included
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`EFFECTCRAFT_GPU_INFLIGHT` overrides it. CPU renders have no such setting. A job on GPU
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Acceleration that renders on the CPU (it measured the CPU faster, or the GPU stopped) fits
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its CPU frames in flight into half the memory the system has free, at the size a GPU frame
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measured, from 1 to one per thread; the app log names the count. Other CPU renders (Software
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Rendering projects) keep one frame per thread in flight, so their memory grows with the core
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count. Set `EFFECTCRAFT_CPU_INFLIGHT` to a whole number of frames (at least 1) to cap the
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frames in flight of every Render Queue render and export, `effectcraft-cli render` included
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([#1615](https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft/issues/1615)); previews don't read it. One
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exception: while a job on GPU Acceleration times both compositors on its first frames, it
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renders them under the cap but keeps them all (up to 12) until it has chosen. That timing
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