After Effects

Hi, I need some guidance from seniors here. I alwys struggle with naming  layers. And we all know how much it is important to name your layer. But i do not know what I should call these types of layes in my animation. please guide me. When you have lots of shape layers in Infographic animation, that act as design material  for  popping up, disappears how should I name these? THESE ARE MANY!  any strategy I can borrow from you Elders!? Please please help me out. The example I attached, should I name it 'chronic inflamation bg shape' ?? such a big name!! often I need to find shapes to reanimate.. what is the proper way to name these kinds of layers in animation... I am after some honed knowledge.  sometimes I stare at all these layers and feel like  'enough with AE, lets quit city life and start living in a forest'..  Please guide me.

I can't duplicate+split layers with the CMD+SHIFT+D shortcut and it's slowing down my workflow massively. I have tried trashing preferences, restarting AE and changing the shortcut for splitting the layer and none of it has worked. Has anyone got any suggestions? It would be really helpful. Cheers.

Hii am really started getting angry about this i maybe dont have a 5000 Dollar workstationbut 32 gb Ram and 6 Cores should be engouth to work with that Software in HD right ?here my system specs Intel i7 4930KGTX 108032GB RAMC: 750 SSD EVOso every time i working in AE or PR but specially AE after 10 -20 mins previewing the program crashes because its out of Memory.Is there anyway to fix that ?  Sometimes i purge everything and it shows like 2 - 40gb of purging .

I get multipe crash issues when either saving an AE project or setting new paths for cache.  Below is the events log that keeps happening. Faulting application name: AfterFX.exe, version: 25.1.0.68, time stamp: 0x6740083eFaulting module name: MSVCP140.dll, version: 14.23.27820.0, time stamp: 0x5d0b2817Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x00000000000126a0Faulting process id: 0x29E0Faulting application start time: 0x1DB8081F45FA1D0Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2025\Support Files\AfterFX.exeFaulting module path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2025\Support Files\MSVCP140.dllReport Id: cafeea05-ee29-4c45-9495-c29f9befef59Faulting package full name:Faulting package-relative application ID: Below is the most recent After Effects Log. [2025-02-16_09-49-35][24468][Info] [general] Instead of the WebView2 runtime in the system, UXP will use the WebView2 runtime in the folder: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Micr

After Effects 25.2.2 (Build 2) but it’s been like this forevvvvvvvver. Fed up enough to finally submit this. Unless an effect in the effects panel is selected first, effects to choose from are greyed out when right clicking the effects panel. It's not entirely broken - Remove All and Manage Effects are active when right clicking without an effect pre-selected in the effects panel, why can't the effects be also accessible? 

Is there any way to fix this? My project opens but only shows the assets and the timeline is empty.

I have an issue with AE since updating my Mac and AE to the latest versions, I get the following message: Last log message was: <1939574> <RenderTaskManager> <1> Destructor: GetOriginalProject() is nullThen I have to force quit. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it, removed lal my plug ins and restarted my mac, this has been going on for over a week. PLEASE FIX.Vewrsion 25.0.1 (build 2)

Say I have a square and I want to extend nothing but the left size. The way I've found to do that is moving the anchor point to the other side first. If not, I would increse the size of the whole shape altogether.Isn't there a hold down CTRL type of deal before clicking and dragging? It seem too much of effort having to move to anchor point first.

Hi,This is the first time that I have to work in a linear ACES workflow, and I'm a bit confused. I want to use the Content-Aware Fill tool but I'm having issues.Context: I'm working with an .exr footage, I have some VFX to do, and I later have to deliver the compositions in ACEScg.Problem: I seem to have correctly color managed the clip using the OCIO Color Space Transform tool effect (Sony S-log3 ⇢ ACEScg). I then try using the Content-Aware Fill tool, but the result is unusable: the colors are off. I assume that I have to apply an OCIO Color Space Transform on the Fill Layer as well, but I can't seem to find the right color space input/output. I'm probably missing something here. Any idea how I can solve this? Thank you.Project Settings : I'm running on a MacMini M2 Pro 32Go. After Effects version 23.5.0 (Build 52).

I pay an Adobe subscription and have only been able to use my after effects ONCE, I'm so upset. Whenever I open my ae and create a composition there is a black screen and I can't see anything, even if I import footage, NOTHING WORKS, I've uninstalled and installed, older and newer versions, my computer is brand new and great specs (HP Omen 17) and I used to use ae everyday on my old computer with way worse specs and this never happened. I've followed more than 5 youtube videos on different things to do and absolutely nothing has worked please help. 

  

Please help, unable to open the file

Whenever I playback a composition in AE with the spacebar, it plays for about 4 seconds and then begins looping the section it rendered. It's totally impossible to watch an entire composition without constantly restarting the playback, and none of the playback settings inside AE seem to change anything.

iam completely new to Adobe. i want to learn AfterEffect. please suggest me how to start and which is the best tutorial

I have 8 gigs of RAM (which I know is not enough for the application) but I'm performing a very basic task with some animation, and while After Effects is using only 3-5% of my RAM. I have allocated 6GB for use in the Memory settings and it's not utilising it which is making me end up with very slow rendering speeds. Also, for a few seconds when I started my render, it showed that it was using 25-35% of my RAM and it was evident with the speeds but then it dipped down to 3-5% again in like 5-6 seconds.

Mac M2 MaxMemory 96GBVentura 13.5.1After Effects v 23.6.0Premiere Pro v23.6.0I am working a project which is adding some title/graphics cards and lower thirds to a Premiere Pro project via dynamic link. I am also working with someone else using a windows machine, swapping a removable hard drive back and forth, but we are both on the latest version of all Adobe programs. If I open the .aep from Premiere (Edit Original) to make an edit, and hit save, the entire After Effects project file disappears. It does not go to the trash, it is not in the folder where the file was created, it seems to be completely gone. My workaround for the moment when this happens is to do a "Save As" and put the file back where it belongs, but there is high risk I will slip up and wipe out a project completely by absentmindedly hitting save and forgetting to put it back in it's path. 

Hello, I would like to create animated explainer videos, does anyone know if the following video was created with After Effects or if an external tool was used?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_K6C0-SW3s Otherwise, I think it is possible to import and animate vector-based characters in After Effects, as you can see in this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFXVtffqvBY Questions about this: Can you make the above videos with After Effects alone, or is Premiere also necessary?Do you animate the same character over and over again, or do you create duplicates of the character for different movements? Thank you very much!

playback is lagging since the new update my system has been lagging System info    Application: After Effects v25.1.0.68    OS: Windows v10.0.22631, RAM: 31.68 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 8

I keep getting stuck on render when working on projects with 2 minutes+ duration, the elapsed time stops moving and it doesn't matter how much I wait, nothing changes. also, everytime it gets stuck on a different frame, so it's nothing frame or effect specific. Shorter projects don't seem to have trouble rendering The program doesn't crash and I can still click on the stop button, but it doesn't do anything and nothing happens, either it's to h264 or prores, still the same This project literally only have 4 color gradient being used as an effect, nothing else but it happened on other projects as wellI've cleaned the cache and did everything except reinstall I'm running version 24.6 and I can't update to 25 because some plugins I use still don't work with the new version (although i have very simple plugins)Specs: Macbook Pro M3 Pro - 18gb RAM | 512GGB - macOS Sequoia 15.5Rendering local to an external SSD (tried rendering to my mac's ssd but still the same problem)

As i was working on my project, my after effects suddenly crashed. So i reopened it and it gave me the opportunity to launch it on "safe mode", so i clicked on it. After that, i realized all my projects were gone. Pay in mind i have my auto save on every 20 minutes so no clue how the folders could have just disappeared on its ownThe auto save feature was set to every 20 minutes and the save path was set to "next to project"I have used boris plugins but i uninstalled them. Though i recall that everytime i opened that project in the past. it would claim that some projects were missing. Perhaps the safe mode had deleted the files because of that?

Hello, I was using Roto brush got everything that I wanted and froze it however, when I played it back, my subjects body goes transparent for a frame so I jump back into after effects to try to roto brush this one frame I don't really know how to properly unfreeze? or to tell if it's unfrozen? And secondly, now my Roto brush layer everything is blacked out except what I already wrote a brush. How do I turn off that?