Importing EIAS-generated RPF files into Adobe After Effects CS3 produces an “After Effects error: RLA: Cannot read file - Invalid RLE data”.

I’ve tested AE CS3’s RPF compatibility with some sample RPF files from this CreativeMac.com tutorial: http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.....jsp?id=22939-0 (The tutorial’s files are http://images.digitalmedianet.com/2...pill_folder.sit ). These work OK.

This is something we are looking at. The problem is that AE doesn’t control the RPF file format, Autodesk does. The Autodesk products
read our RPF files. We haven’t figured out yet why AE does not. We might need some help from Adobe on this one.

RLE? EIAS is compressing the images?

(perhaps I mistyped that last RLE. But then perhaps RPF uses Run Length Encoding compression internally)

I’ve checked: that “invalid RLE data” is correctly typed.

Hola Juan

Juanxer - 03 December 2007 06:35 PM

(perhaps I mistyped that last RLE. But then perhaps RPF uses Run Length Encoding compression internally)

I’ve checked: that “invalid RLE data” is correctly typed.

RPF output files were tested with 3ds and AE6.5. Unfortunately, as far as we know AE import, it’s quite possible that newer AE vers has probs. AE always understands RPF in a bit “specific” way (for example it requires channels in predefined order etc.). Well, let’s see what AE needs this time. Please report:

- upload any prob file here;

- what is your AE vers exactly? Does it happen on PC as well?

Thank you

It seems the forum won’t allow us to upload files that are not JPEGs, GIF or such (it checks them, so I cannot simply rename a name.RPF file as name.jpg). What should we do to send samples to you?

Sorry to resurrect this thread: I hadn’t tried the RPF Layer Shader since last year’s end, when Matt was so kind as to let me try a working beta version of the Shader on EIAS 7.0. Yesterday I tried the one included in EIAS 7.0.1 for the first time, and found it producing the same After Effects error warning reported in my first post.

Could you check that the RPF Layer Shader included in your downloadable EIAS 7.0.1 update (for Macintosh) is really current? Files’ Info shows:

RPF_Saver.rsc: 2007-06-30

RPF_Saver.shl: 2008-01-30

My setup is: Mac Pro 2.66 GHz 5 GB RAM. OS X 10.5.2. EIAS 7.0.1. After Effects CS3.