Does autosave actually do anything inside of the plugin - just crashed and lost more work than the autosave interval, (5 mins), would have allowed for ?
Does the “Save Project” button do anything inside of the plugin ? Can I use this to manually force a save ?
You can manually use a save project button to save the work, yes. Autosave will work as long as AE itself doesn’t crash. We are working on a solution to save separate auto saves files so when AE crashes you have a backup. Since the save is written to the layer, the AE project must also be saved for it to save with it.
I not totally sure but since I had another one today which also took out Nuke completely and lost about a ½ hrs work I know at the time I was bouncing around between manual track and auto and I think I had adjusted a surface in manual on a key frame and was trying to figure out how to delete that key frame to get back into auto and somewhere in that whole flurry of keystrokes I ended up with the “fast exit”.