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.
- As video editing
- Identify and read video-editing project files: Adobe After Effects (AEP, AET, AEPX) - walks the RIFX chunk tree for compositions, layers, effect match-names and asset paths; Adobe Premiere Pro / Elements (PRPROJ, PREL) - sequence, media-item and clip counts plus media paths; Sony / MAGIX VEGAS Pro (VEG, VF); DaVinci Resolve from Blackmagic Design (DRP, DRT); Wondershare Filmora (WFP, WSP); and CapCut drafts (draft_content.json) - canvas resolution, duration, tracks and material counts.
- As adobe
- Identify Adobe project files and read their metadata: Photoshop (PSD, PSB), Illustrator (AI), InDesign (INDD), After Effects (AEP, AEPX, AET) with composition / layer / effect and asset extraction, Premiere Pro and Elements (PRPROJ, PREL) with sequence and media counts, XD, Animate (FLA), and Lightroom.
- Depth of analysis
- .AET is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .AET file
- Drag a .AET file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.