* Import: a model's left-out parts reach the user as an import warning (Model::warnings, Importer::probe_noting)
* Import: a model's left-out parts reach the user as an import warning
Dropping an .aep or .aepx on the window, or picking one in File > Import > File...
or Multiple Files... (also from the Home screen and the Project panel), imports it
as File > Import > Adobe After Effects Project... does, instead of failing as
unsupported footage: the losses prompt first when parts cannot come over, its
items in a folder named after the file, its first composition open.
- Several projects are asked about one at a time: the others wait in the
prompt's queue, and Cancel skips only the one it asks about. A prompt another
dialog replaced (Save changes?) strands nothing: its projects are tried with
the next import or queued behind the next prompt.
- The other files of a drop or pick import as footage, into the Project panel
only when a project is in the drop. While the prompt shows, a Photoshop file
or image sequence imports with its defaults instead of replacing the prompt,
an Interpret Footage question leaves a note instead, and a dropped .ecproj is
skipped with a note. While Save changes? waits for a dropped .ecproj, the rest
of the drop is skipped with a note instead of landing in the replaced project.
- Errors of every picked project reach the status line on both the blocking and
the non-blocking file dialog.
- The Import File dialogs list .aep, .aepx, .ecproj and .ecprojx; Replace
Footage offers footage only.
- For scripts and agents, file.import hands After Effects projects to
file.importAep; a refusal (new EngineError::Refused) names the menu entry and
`file.importAep` with `allowLosses`.
- File > Import / Export name the entry Adobe After Effects Project..., as
Adobe Premiere Pro Project...; File > Import keeps After Effects' order with
the project imports together and the formats only EffectCraft imports after a
separator. All 13 menu catalogs and the losses dialog title are updated.
- Docs: aep-import, aep-export, footage, file-format-parity, agents.
Supersedes #3312.
Related to #1365. Display labels only; effect, command, parameter, panel and serialized ids and the AEP/script match-name tables are unchanged.
- 69 Cycore CC effects, Key Light, Mocha shape, Lumetri Color/Scopes and the Mercury renderer labels get descriptive names; the old names stay case-insensitive lookup and search aliases.
- Backend::parse accepts the new renderer labels, so reported settings round-trip.
- Display names are unique per language in every effect catalog (new test).
- Warp Stabilizer and Roto Brush keep their names until RFC-0029 settles.
- Mapping in docs/feature-naming.md.
* Image sequences: a gap in the numbering holds the previous frame, as After Effects
Split out of #1876 (originally 7850cbf4), because it reverses the colour bars
documented in #297 and needs its own discussion.
After Effects 2026 shows the last existing file across a gap in a sequence's
numbering (files 1, 2, 4, 5 show frame 2 at frame 3; read back from After
Effects). EffectCraft drew colour bars there. The media pool now holds the
previous file (Footage::sequence_file_held); colour bars remain only where no
file precedes the frame. Missing-frame reports on import are unchanged.
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* Image sequences: hold the first file of the preceding number across a gap; fix the import warning
A gap now holds the file sequence_file picks for the preceding number, so
files sharing a number do not switch at the gap. The Report Missing Frames
warning says the previous frame is held instead of "shown as placeholders".
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* Image sequences: Interpret Footage says a gap holds the previous frame
The Interpret Footage note for a numbered sequence with gaps still said the
missing frames are shown as colour bars; the media pool holds the previous
frame there now. The note, its comment and two test doc comments say so,
and a forms test checks the note's wording.
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file.import without the flag (scripts, agents, files opened from the command line,
the CLI's templates) turned `lockin_line1.png` into a one-frame image sequence.
ImportOptions.sequence defaults to false in After Effects, so picked and dropped files
now import as stills unless `sequence: true`; folders' numbered runs still import as
sequences, and the Import dialog's Sequence checkbox is unchanged.
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Settings ▸ Project ▸ Project Files ▸ Save Compact Project Files (off by
default) saves .ecproj files as compact JSON: smaller, faster to save and
open. Off, they stay indented, one value per line, so they read and diff
cleanly in version control. XML copies are not affected; auto-saves were
already compact. The project.ecproj inside exported template and Motion
Graphics template packages is written compact.
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The empty Composition viewer's button only ran File > Import, so the picked
file landed in the Project panel and no composition was made. file.import
now takes newComp: when the import lands (at once or when its background job
applies), what it made becomes one composition via New Comp from Selection.
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