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Thumbnails in Bridge lost in files saved with AE CS6

Nov 19, 2012 1:32 PM

On Windows I have some templates (aet) from AE 7 and CS3 that include thumbnails in the XMP, and Bridge CS6 shows these.  If I open these templates in AE CS6 and save them out, no thumbnail is preserved/added to the XMP.

 

I looked through the preferences for AE CS6 and I can't find anything related to saving out previews/thumbnails in the XMP for a project or template. 

 

Is there a setting that will allow me to get thumbnails in the XMP that I would see in Bridge?  Was this a capability that was dropped some time between CS3 and CS6?

 

David Blake

472 Views   7 Replies   Latest reply: David Blake, Nov 19, 2012 4:11 PM
 
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  • Mylenium
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    1. Mylenium,
    Nov 19, 2012 7:59 AM   in reply to David Blake
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    Yeah, likely it's one of those things that fell of the cart somewehre along the way. Never cared much for this, so I can't even tell you when it possibly might have been removed...

     

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    2. David Blake,
    Nov 19, 2012 9:04 AM   in reply to Mylenium
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    > Never cared much for this...

     

    I have a customer with many years worth of projects/templates with files numbering in the thousands, and he often relies on the thumbnails to find which template he wants to re-use.  I imagine he's not alone in feeling quite the opposite about the thumbs.  I'll let him know about this loss in efficiency when considering upgrading from CS3 to recent versions.

     
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    3. Mylenium,
    Nov 19, 2012 9:34 AM   in reply to David Blake
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    We all have different priorities, I guess. Can't even remember when I last fired up Bridge, not even from Photoshop...

     

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    4. Todd_Kopriva,
    Nov 19, 2012 1:34 PM   in reply to David Blake
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    Were you ever able to save thumbnails to templates that you created? I would be very surprised if you had. The thumbnails saved into the template projects that come with After Effects were manually injected by us; we have never had a feature to do that for user-created templates.

     
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  • David Blake
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    5. David Blake,
    Nov 19, 2012 2:03 PM   in reply to Todd_Kopriva
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    I can contact my customer and see if he wants to contact you about his templates that have thumbnails.

     

    The files I am testing with are from Adobe Exchange.  The metadata in the file doesn't indicate who they are from or who created them.  The thumbs are in the screenshot below.

     

    Explorer-AET-Thumbnails.png

     
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    6. Todd_Kopriva,
    Nov 19, 2012 2:09 PM   in reply to David Blake
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    Yes, those are the templates that we created and manually injected previews for.

     
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    7. David Blake,
    Nov 19, 2012 4:11 PM   in reply to Todd_Kopriva
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    I guess we (that is, Ardfry), will have to get to work on a (hopefully automated) preview injector if we're going to deliver what people have been asking us for.  Thank you for clarifying the genesis of these files.

     
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