Sunday, October 6, 2013

5D Mark iii, Adobe After Effects, & Timelapses

The job I'm currently on requires me to put together A LOT of timelapses using Adobe After Effects.  Everything was going fine, until we got a 5D Mark iii added to the mix of DSLRs.  When I would go to import photos, I would get this error message: "after effects error: photoshop file format error (-30504). ( 45 :: 35 )."  I had no idea what that meant since I'd only learned AE recently for this job.  I assumed that the solution to this was the solution to most computer related things: it needed an update.

First I looked for the most recent AE update, which was oddly inconvenient to find the link to.  I chased links from their website, to their Facebook page, and back to their website.  Anyway, here it is:

CS6 11.0.3 Update 10/03/13
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=5661&fileID=5679
(I personally enjoy that "thankyou" is in the URL.)

Perhaps I should have mentioned this, but updating that didn't do anything.  Actually it might have.  I feel like I might have gotten a different error message.  I'm can't remember since I found the actual solution so quickly after, but updating things for the hell of it is good, right?  I think so.

The update that fixes this problem for realizes:
Camera Raw 7.1 Update
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=5390&fileID=5029

This was also oddly difficult to locate.  First I was tipped off by a forum post saying something about updating my ACR.  Eventually I figured out that stood for the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in.  That led me to a super cool list of cameras that the plug-in supports, but no link.  I shluffed through a little more internet and found the above link.  Now everything is happy, which keeps my boss happy, which keeps me happy.  Happiness for everyone!