Articles
Practical, detailed guides written while building the converters: what carries over, what doesn't and why, and how to prepare a project so the result opens cleanly.
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How to convert an After Effects project to EffectCraft
A step-by-step walkthrough: preparing an .aep, uploading it, reading the report, opening the .ecproj in EffectCraft, relinking footage and checking the result.
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What carries over from After Effects to EffectCraft, and what doesn't
An honest list of what converts from an After Effects project to EffectCraft: layers, keyframes, effects, text, shapes, masks, 3D, expressions, and the gaps.
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Relink Footage After Converting a Project: Paths Explained
Why media shows offline after converting an After Effects or Premiere project, how paths are remapped, and how to relink footage and image sequences.
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Checklist Before Converting an After Effects or Premiere Project
A practical pre-flight checklist for converting After Effects, Premiere Pro and EffectCraft projects: versions, size limit, plug-ins, fonts, footage, report.
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Premiere Pro to FilmCraft: what converts and what doesn't
How a Premiere Pro .prproj becomes a FilmCraft .fcproj via Final Cut Pro 7 XML: what carries over, what is reported, and how to open and relink it.
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Taking an EffectCraft project back into After Effects
How to move an EffectCraft .ecproj into After Effects with a generated ExtendScript: how to run it, what it rebuilds, its limits and what is untested.
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Why Adobe project files won't open in other apps
Why .aep, .prproj, .indd, .ai and .lrcat files fail to open elsewhere, what reading a closed format takes, and what exchange formats lose.
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Open-source alternatives to Adobe apps: the Craft apps
Each Craft app next to the Adobe app it parallels, what it opens or exports natively, where a converter is needed and how mature the apps are.
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Moving a Lightroom Classic catalog to LightCraft
What a .lrcat catalog holds, how LightCraft imports it, what carries over, where edits differ, and how XMP sidecars work for the way back.
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InDesign to DesignCraft: opening .indd and IDML files
How DesignCraft opens InDesign .indd and .indt files, when to use IDML instead, what to check afterwards, and how to export IDML back to InDesign.
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