After Effects

I'm using Mac, the app has operated well, but this error showed up while I was previewing my video.  How can I resolve this issue? 

Hi all, I have been assigned this project to complete, but I'm unsure how to recreate it. There might be a plugin for this, which I'm sure was used. File attached.Help ASAP Anthony

Whenever I try to use the "Sunburst" preset on After Effects 2024, it immediately crashes the app. I have tried using this effect on After Effects Beta, and it works perfectly fine with nothing crashing. Is there a reason as to why this could be crashing on AE 24, or is there just a bug when using it in AE 24 that makes my computer crash when using it?

Hey there, Just thought I'd see if anyone had any input on which version of AE I should require for my motion and VFX classes heading into the new school year in a couple weeks. I have traditionally required students to use the previous version but it's always a little bit of a battle with some students accidentally letting their CC app auto-update and just students being students and not always responding.As far as hardware, at school we have M1 Mac Studios but most of the classes are online these days so students tend to have either basic gaming-oriented Windows machines or MacBook Pros, and anything in between. There's no real way of me knowing, I distribute the minimum requirements and hope for the best. It's actually surprising how few issues I run into with students and their hardware.And for how we use AE, we get into maybe an intermediate level of animation and compositing with tons of Cinema 4D integration via Cineware and AEC files. Our main 3rd party effects are Particu

To be honest, I've never once gotten a useable result from content aware fill - has anyone?  I only really use it as a dynamic link between AE and Photoshop, but that never seems to work any more either.  So yeah, make some of it work please. 

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HolaI have a Mac, and the shortcut don't work, it will open something else.Moving the mouse holding contro/option, will open a panel.What is the best way?I have AE. 25.3.2 

I just ran into a frustrating issue with After Effects (v25.3.0) that I’ve never seen before in 5+ years of using the software.I was working on a project yesterday, saved it manually using “Save As”  — I do this manually every time when I start working on any project, just a habit, but even more hilarious that I even have a screenshot from my activity tracker that clearly shows me doing that. But when I reopened AE, the project still appeared under Recent Projects, and clicking it gave me the dreaded “file not found” error. I went into the folder I saved it in, and the .aep file is just gone — completely disappeared. No trace of it.To make it worse, the Auto-Save folder is also empty, which makes no sense because auto-save was enabled. I’ve checked my system thoroughly (including hidden folders, Library > Application Support, media cache, etc.), and used Terminal to search for .aep and .aepautosave files modified that day — nothing.This feels like a serious bug. I'm 100% s

My after effects keep crashing, saying I need more RAM even though I have 64gb of ram. I tried deleting my cache and memory but still won't work. My pc specs are quite good (4090, core i9, 64gb ram) but after effects also slows the playback speed when i play. 

I'm supposed to be able to craete a comp and double-click the sunburst effect to add it to a comp but it does not work. I get an expression error. If I knew more about expressions I might be able to sleuth it out, but alas...     

Hi guys, this questions seems stupid to ask but I for gods sake cannot make After Effects open in Full Screen on Mac.The window shows a green + instead of <> button, and the "view"/"enter full screen" option is greyed out. I'm on a 13 inch MacBook and obviously a visual program is unsuable if not opened in full screen.Cant find any articles on this so expect this is not a common issue:  

Hi guys, The Drop Shadow effect in my After Effects suddenly disappeared. I checked the Presets folder in my Mac and it is not in there. After Effects keeps telling me the preset is 'missing'. I'm using AE version 23.4 on an iMac with macOS Monterey. Does anyone have any idea what happened? I tied to re-install the AE app, but didn't help. That preset is still missing.  

I'm trying to replace just the xPosition property while retaining its yPosition for multiple layers.Current constructs are such that all selected layer's yPosition adopt the yValues from the first selected layer. The result is really strange and I'm wondering why would this be part of the product's design. If I wanted both X-Y position values to exactly that of another layer, I would copy paste that layer's position property - so, there's already an intuitive way to accomplish this. Hence, writing in/over just the xPosition value should allow for changing just the xPosition value. 

Hello,I've been working on a shot requiring me to isolate my subject from the green screen behind him. I chose to go with Rotobrush over keying the subject. I used the refine edge tool as well. In the middle of me finalizing this shot, my AE crashes on me giving me multiple error messages including "After Effects warning: Cant use the Roto Brush tool because the "Paint" effect plugin is missing. You may need to reinstall." Im very confused because I hadnt messed with any settings beforehand, I'm not using a third party plug in or anything, Roto brush was working fine, and then it just happened in the middle of me editing the shot. I've uninstalled and reinstalled twice now. I cant even open After Effects (Beta) or even open a project, the message shows up as soon as AE shows the startup screen. Help! 

I'm certain almost every user has seen the Missing Fonts dialog when opening an AEP -  So, today I said, enough of this crap - I'm going to get rid of this dialog. So ...How to RePro - 1 - in the Project Panel, input "Missing Fonts"2 - Project Panel displays comps that include one or more Text Layers with this "Missing Font"3 - Open each Comp and replace each instance of the font's use with a viable font. But you'll notice that each opened timeline displays only affected Text Layer(s).After completing the same task across all Comps I realize - DANG!!! How do I get back the layers? Shy Layer icon isn't in an enabled state. It seems like something at a lower level is hiding the layers unaffected by the "Missing Fonts".The only way I know (I think) how to get the other layers back into the timeline is to save-quit-restart. This is WILD! Hopefully this gets a quick fix - starting from the poorly thought Missing Fonts dialog which SHOULD include a list of the comps

Expected behaviour - if the same piece of footage is in the project twice, reduce to one instance for all uses.Current behaviour - 0 footage

Wel the titel says it all i guess: Is there a way to only render part of the timeline?

Hello, I want to use roto brush tool, but it doesn't work. When I choose roto brush tool and start selecting what I want, the whole video border turns purple, meaning the whole image is selected. I don't know what I need to do, to just select what I want. Any suggestions?

Every time I send something to process, and it finishes, I get this notification in CC. I haven't found anything to stop this particular notification, anywhere. Does anyone know how to deal with it? I don't want to disable notifications since some may be useful. Notifications are off inside After Effects. I'm using the latest version of CC and AE in macOS Sonoma 14.2.1, MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports.

It appears Expression Selectors have a bug with non-Latin scripts (Right to Left) like Arabic and Hebrew.   They don't render correctly on every frame, sometimes they're delayed, other times they're incorrect.   However, purging cache on each frame will render correctly. Also, sometimes it will seem to work fine, but then if you change or re-create the keyframes then the bug resurfaces.   In this example, the above text is animating correctly with a regular Range Selector, but the lower example is animating incorrectly with a simple Expression Selector driven by a slider.     Attached Project File for Reference.   (expression for reference) val = effect("Slider Control")("Slider"); if(Math.round(textIndex) == Math.round(val)) { [100, 100, 100]; }else{ [0, 0, 0]; }   Tested on: - AE 25.3.0 Build 71 - Windows 11

Hello there, it's my first time trying After Effects and I was trying to work my way around it. I managed to create some simple animations and it worked okay, but out of the blue, when I create shapes, I don't have the values on the right side, it only appears the pick the whip and it won't let me animate or do anything and I don't understand why I don't have any values when I create the shapes anymore, can you please help me out?  

Description I’m using an Alienware Area 51 system with an Intel Ultra 9 275 CPU, 64GB RAM, and an NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU running on Windows 11.After Effects 2025 consistently crashes on startup when using the RTX 5090 GPU. However, when I force the app to use Intel integrated graphics via Windows Graphics Preferences, the application launches and functions correctly.I have tried:Clean reinstalling After Effects 2025Reinstalling NVIDIA drivers (latest Game Ready and Studio versions)Using the latest Windows updatesResetting preferences and pluginsDisabling hardware acceleration (when accessible)This issue affects both After Effects 2025 and Premiere Pro 2025, while other Adobe apps like Photoshop and InDesign work fine.This appears to be a critical compatibility issue between AE 2025 and RTX 5090 or its driver layer (likely CUDA-related), as it happens even on a fresh install with no projects loaded.Steps to Reproduce:Launch After Effects 2025 with RTX 5090 enabled as the GPU.Observe c

I was working on a project in After Effects 2025. I went out for lunch, came back to open the files and it just shows opening files dialog box but doesn't open the file. Tried all the methods that need to troubleshoot but no luck. Transferred the same files to another workstation, it opened at first and then the same thing repeats again. Any solution to this?

I hope someone could help because I'm at a loss with this problem.I had several versions of after effects installed (23/24/25). I was working in 25, all went well and suddenly there was a crash. Since that moment I'm not able anymore to open any of these AE versions anymore.When opening AE it freezes on "Initializing Media Core", it hangs and that's it.Things I tried so far:- removed all third party plugins- removed all files in the Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common map- uninstalled andn reinstalled all AE- even did the total Adobe clean up and installed everything again- but the problems is still there Needless to say this is really frustrating and stressfull because I have projects to deliver. I am a user of Adobe and after effects since 2001 (!) now, and I never experienced such a severe crash problem as this one. Adobe how on earth is this posssibe. So far my complaint, I hope someone can help me.I'm on Mac, M1, 15.1.1 (Sequoia). Updated a few days ago, maybe that

Please help. I've just rendered a video with some effects (shaking, twitching, coloring) and I guess messed with one layer. I've reversed one to make a transition . The reversed layer was with some color on it (effect like tritone you know) using a reversed turbulent displace either. So now I created a clearly new project, where's none of videos that I was using in the last, but on my preview page this one layer with color effect still stays like I added it to a timeline, but there's nothing! No one layer on it. And it renderers with this layer when didn't even add the file. Don't know how is it even possible. I'm sorry for my English, it's not my mother language. I can send video with the problem to a dm on insta/telegram/discord/twitter and stuff like these