What is a .AET file?
AET is an Adobe After Effects project template. Created and opened by Adobe After Effects.
- Did you know
- Five of After Effects’ original developers received an Academy Scientific and Engineering Award in 2019, recognising the program’s design and its role in film title work and screen graphics.
- An AET opens as a fresh untitled copy, so the template stays intact while you build a new project from it.
- Version 1.0 of After Effects shipped in January 1993 under the codename Egg, following the team’s tradition of naming releases after dishes on a nearby restaurant’s menu.
- What Analyser shows you
- Open Adobe After Effects projects (.aep) and templates (.aet) in the browser. Analyser walks the RIFX chunk tree to rebuild every composition timeline - each layer drawn as a bar positioned by its in and out point, colour-coded by footage, pre-comp, audio and shape, with 3D layers marked - and reads each comp's dimensions, frame rate, duration and layer count. The After Effects version that created and last saved the project (and the create/modify dates) are read from the embedded XMP metadata, alongside the list of footage and source files the project references.
- Open a .AET file
- Drag a .AET file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.
- Related formats
- .AEP. See all supported file types.