From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects

Dealing with the exercise files - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects

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Dealing with the exercise files

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And as such, might cause you issues, with warnings, and things not looking the same as what I have on my screen. So, to fix this, you can turn off the effects, to disable them. to disable them. You could also turn off the entire layer itself, to disable the layer, or you could download demos of the missing plugins, from developer's website. When working with the exercise files themselves, project files are always in the chapter folder, that corresponds to the training. So, the projects for chapter seven, for example, for both Cinema 4D, and After Effects, are all in the chapter seven folder. in the chapter seven folder. But, project files often reference other files as well, and sometimes there could be issues with those not linking correctly. And so, if you need to find them, here's a little bit of info for you. For Cinema 4D projects, there's usually a text folder. A folder called text, in the same location as the project. So, if there is a Cinema 4D linking issue, look through the text folder that's in the same folder as the project, as the Cinema 4D file. the project, as the Cinema 4D file. The .c4D file. After Effects projects link to images, and video files, that are found the in the media folder, in the exercise files folder. Photoshop files are found in the stills, and graphics folder, in the media folder. and graphics folder, in the media folder. Relinking files that you download, is a pain. And I certainly apologize for that, if that should be your lot, to deal with. But, that's just kind of the nature of the beast, when downloading exercise files from the internet. I deal with it too myself, when I download training, or whatever. But, I do think that the effort is worth it. I spent a lot of time converting these files, I spent a lot of time converting these files, into more download friendly formats, into more download friendly formats, that you could dissect a lot of what I did here. And maybe improve on it, or change it on your own, if you wanted to. So, again my condolences for any relinking, or missing plugin issues. But, it's worth it. Okay. So, we're done with all the boring logistical stuff. So, we're done with all the boring logistical stuff. Let's get to the fun training stuff, in the next chapter.

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