After Effects

Hey all,This is one of those questions I USED to know the answer to... but I'm coming back to AE after having basically not used it for several years, so I don't remember how this worked, and for some weird reason, I can't find the answer. I have a piece of footage that is shorter than the entire composition. I want to freeze the last frame and hold it there until the composition reaches its end point. I do not want to change the timing of anything in the footage/layer itself-- just freeze and hold the last frame. It really seems like "freeze frame" SHOULD do this, but it just shows a frozen frame (converted the avi file to a still image in this instance, I think.) I need a frozen still of the *last* frame that will last for the duration of the entire comp. Please help me remember how this is done!! Thanks for all help and advice.

I am currently working on an AE comp (v. 23.1.o Build 83 - Mac OS Monterey v 12.6). I created a new comp and some text layers and discovered when typing the word "PEOPLE", the letter L automatically shows up as lower case and when I try to type it UPPER case it changes the font to Helvetica. It only happens when using the Extra Bold font style. 

I have an After Effects file that was working totally fine earlier today, but now I cannot open the file.  When I do, it just lingers on the "Open Project" screen, shortly followed by "(not responding)".  I also cannot open any of the Auto-Save files, even the ones from yesterday in which I know the file was working fine. The file has Dynamic Links to a Premiere Project I am working on.  I've tried opening After Effects using the Ctrl+Alt+Shift Click method to clear preferences; I've cleard the cache; copied file to new location and drive; removed MEDIA folder to try to break links.  All have the same result.... If the file is corrupt, why would the auto-save files also not be working?  This makes me wonder if there is something fishy going with the Dynamic Links... Please help!

j'aimerais savoir s'il est possible de faire la location d'After Effect pour seulement quelques mois par année de façon aléatoire (me désabonner et me réabonner par après) j'en aurais besoin que pour quelques mois de façon aléatoire, j'aimerais mieux l'acheter mais...

afterefectsを入れたばかりなのですが、再生をすると途中でプレビューのインジケーターが止まってしまいます。映像は正常に流れています。プロジェクトも一つもなく、キャッシュも一切溜まっていない状態です。PCは、Dell Alienware Aurora R16 ゲーミング デスクトップ GEFORCE RTX4090 corei9-14900KF RAM64GBを使用しています。PCのスペック的には問題ないと思うのですが、どなたか原因を知っている方がいたら教えてほしいです。

Unable to Open latest major release on my Laptop, whilst v24.x LTS works fine. Can you point me in the right direction as to where I may be able to pull log files to analyse further. 

Since I have a more powerful computer, After Effects crashes constantly during the simplest tasks like creating a mask. I have to restart the computer every two minutes while working. The computer has an AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX 16-Core Processor, 100 GB of RAM, and an RTX 5080 graphics card. All drivers are up to date. When I perform the same tasks on the old computer (Intel, 40 GB of RAM, RTX 3080), I have no problems. What could be the reason for that?

Anytime i make a composition and i put the FPS above 15 the preview slows down to 10ms render time and i cant seem to fix it. i can add as many effects as i want but when i go above 15 fps it slows. i have 64 gbs of ram and 58 allocates, an intel i7, a 4060ti, and 200 gbs free on my storage disc. no matter what i do from every post i have read it will not work. if anyone has an idea on how to fix this without mentioning ram, storage, cache, etc please help

Hello,I’m experiencing a persistent low‑resolution issue in After Effects, and I can’t figure out the cause.Here are the details:Compositions are set to 1920×1080 (Full HD).Draft 3D is OFF.Adaptive Resolution is OFF (Preview set to Full).VC Orb plugin is being used (textures are 6K resolution).Color settings in the project: 32 bpc.Preview scaling is 100% in the Comp panel.Output still looks noticeably softer compared to tutorials using identical settings.Things I’ve checked:The textures are confirmed to be high‑resolution (6K JPG).Gamma/Brightness settings match the tutorial.I’ve tested with multiple comps and cameras.Additional example:The same low‑resolution effect happens in another comp where I use CC Ball Action (screenshot attached). Even at 1080×1080 or 1920×1080 comps, the small elements look blurred compared to the expected sharp result.Question:What else could cause low resolution in both plugins/effects when all settings appear correct? Could it be related to:Comp size vs. t

Hello. I need to install Adobe After Effects 2022 (version 22.x) for compatibility with existing projects. It's not available in Creative Cloud. Could you provide the offline installer or help me install this version?

AE 25.3.2 upgrade hangs on file explorer when importing files, not even when you hit the import button. It will sometimes go unresponsive for around 20 seconds or crash. This started happening after updating and it happens around 30% of the time, on both the NAS and local drive. EDIT: It does not hang if I drag and drop files into the project. It's clearly the importerWin 112x RTX 4090Ryzen 9950x  

When I fully render, in that frame/moment between the switch of layers appearing the two layers of the legs are grayed out. Like perhaps it is showing those two layers at half opacity. This glitch doesn't show inside the composition, only when rendering. When I scrub it looks totally normal when going from one frame to the next. I have tried overlapping and turning off the opacity manually instead but that doesn't help either. When I have them fully overlapping (weirdly showing four legs) it appears to render just fine. What is happening? 

Hi! I'm relatively new to AE and had a question about the best way to go about this design. I have this vector below, everything is seperately editable, and my goal is to create this kind of pulsing animation from the center. I've never done something like this with so many components. Any advice? Thank you guys!

After effects crashes on both old and new projects. It started doing this problem about a month ago, before that, everything worked fine. I work on Imac 2020, intel i7 with 40 gigs of ram and external disks (HDD SSD). I tried to solve the problem by switching from 2023 to 2025 and also changed OS from Big Sour to Sequoia, but the problem is still there.

Not sure what's causing this, but everything was fine in Geolayers 3 until I clicked the "Finalize" button.Now I have entire sections of my map vanishing. Has anyone else run into this issue with Geolayer 3?  

Hello all, Im trying to achieve the solitaire ending / Windows XP glitch effect using the Echo effect similar to this reference.https://giphy.com/clips/laguarimba-glitch-guarimba-film-festival-VWKZo6eOpI9C58M2k1 I pretty much want the echos made to stay forever and not move based on the path the animated object goes. I know there is an expression out there for the echo effect that can achieve this, but I just can not find it for the life of me.  Does anyone know this expression? Or perhaps a better way to achieve this effect? 

Hello once again. Few days ago, I have come across a weird problem / glitch / crash that occurs that has never happened before. In an After Effects project that I am doing, I am planning on making the boomerang effect. Basically, I want to put slow-motion to a clip and then duplicate it, and reverse the duplicated layer, to give it an effect similar to boomerang. But something weird happens every time I do so. I want to give boomerang effect to different parts of a video, with the frame rate of 23.978. So in my first clip, I would pre-compose it, put twixtor pro to it (I put the frame rate of the video as it is in the twixtor, which is 23.978), then pre-compose again. Then I duplicated that pre-composed layer with twixtor inside it. I moved it right next to the 1st layer, and then I what I did was : right click > Time > Time-reverse layer. It worked perfectly fine. But then, I cut to another part of the video to make the boomerang effect with and also to put twixtor. So I did the

I am reaching out for assistance regarding a color quality issue I’m facing when exporting videos from After Effects.I completed my post-production in Adobe After Effects using a PNG sequence for the source visuals. When I rendered the project into a .MOV format, the output maintained the exact same color vibrancy and accuracy as the original PNGs. However, the resulting video is 10 minutes long and around 50 GB, which is impractically large for delivery.To reduce the file size, I converted the .MOV to .MP4 using Adobe Media Encoder. While this reduced the file to a manageable 1 GB, I noticed a significant loss in color quality — the colors appear dull and less vibrant.Additionally, I tried exporting directly to MP4 from After Effects, but the same issue occurs — the color fidelity is noticeably degraded compared to the .MOV file.My key question is:Is there any way to export or convert to MP4 (either t

I thought I had done this in the past but it seems that I can't resize the timeline. I've added an image to show you, but the transform section is almost the whole size of my screen with the actual timeline is about 1/5 of the screen. Is there a way to maybe reverse the sizes so there is more timeline space?

 This is a new type of error that I've been getting here and there. My AE is very unstable. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this? My AE has stopped offering to send Crash Reports, so I don't have a dmp file.

Usually when I drag my Current Time Indicator to a certain frame and press space bar to preview, the rendering would start where the Time Indicator is. Now, when I drag the Current Time Indicator and press space bar to preview, the rendering starts at the beginning of the composition and refuses to start where the Time Indicator is. I don't understand why it's not working all of a sudden. It was working just fine a couple weeks ago.. How and what can I do to fix this problem? I have Adobe After Effects CC 2017 btw.

In After Effects, perfectly framing a moving target is easy. With a null parented camera, you simply parent the null's position to the moving target's position and the target will always be perfectly centered in your frame. Why is it that Geolayers 3 doesn't allow me to do this? It will frame a moving object along a path using "Animate View Along Feature", but I can't seem to frame the moving target perfectly in the center of my frame with Geolayers 3. What am I doing wrong or possibly missing?