* #3170: .aep import of the text animator Stroke Opacity and the Source Text expression
ADBE Text Stroke Opacity maps to the animator's strokeOpacity (percent, as
After Effects shows it). The Source Text expression is imported like any
property's (Utf8 text, tdb4 bytes 119/120); one whose flags give no state
is still reported. New committed fixture text-synthetic.aep, made in After
Effects 2026 with the working space None.
* #3170: .aep export of the Source Text expression and the text animator Stroke Opacity
The Source Text expression is written enabled or disabled as After Effects
stores it (tdb4 bytes 119/120, Utf8 after cdat); a disabled one is no longer
dropped without a report. strokeOpacity is written as ADBE Text Stroke
Opacity with the record After Effects wrote in text-synthetic.aep. A test
exports the fixture and imports it again.
* #3170: doc comments on the functions this change touches
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.
Valentin Klein