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I recently used Google’s NotebookLM to help me produce a Podcast to introduce After Effects users to the world of Scalable & Responsive Motion Graphics Systems.The source material for the Podcast were selected class recordings (Sept-Oct 2024) from my LIVE Online Course – Develop Intelligent Design Assets for Motion Design Systems (RSPSV 1001).I hope you find the Podcast interesting and a little insightful. I’ve got tons of samples on Youtube and my site – so, do a bit of googling.  😉 Feel free to post Qs and I’ll do my best to answer them.

BY ACCIDENT I FORCED RESTARTED MY COMPUTER AND NOW MY FILES IR CORRUPTED/DAMAGED AND IVE TRIED IT ON OTHER COMPUTERS AND IT SEEMS LIKE ITS THE FILE I WAS ABOUT TO RENDER TO IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME FIX MY FILE I WOULD BE HAPPY ( IVE TRIED MOSTLY EVERY METHOD THE DRAG AND DROP AND IMPORT FILES, CHANGING THE NAME THEY DONT WORK) IF ANY CAN HELP I WOULD MUCH BE APPRICIEATED.

Hi All,Im a bit of a novvice in certain areas of after effects, I work for a small agency so enevitabley end up creating everything for a brand. I have recently seen this animation https://ashfall.studio/work/fifth-row, and other changing pattern animations. this one in particular caught my eye and and wondered if anyone had a good resource on learning to create such a dynamic looping pattern.It could be expressions controlling line widths and lengths in a very clever way but I would love some kind of tutorial on this. Im not sure where to start. Any ideas?Thanks 

Hi, I have a serious problem with a live concert footage (see attached) where one of the monitors recorded zebras from my GH5 camera settings, which means that a lot of the highlights are showing up with zebras. I've tried multiple ways of erasing them but it seems a lot more tricky than I thought, and unless I want to spend days editing every frame on photoshop, I'm wondering if anyone has a clue of what the easiest process would be... I've tried some bluring, wire removal, and others, but nothing really works and it's a very painful process so far... Obviously deleting zebrasfrom the main light spots is easier because i can sort of replace the lights, but it gets much harder when it comes to the small zebras on the skin or on the instruments... And because the light changes a lot, any rotoscoping other tracking is difficult because zebras will show up anywhere on the screen from one frame to the next...Anyway, any help appreciated ! It would save me a lot of time !

Issue:16-bit RPF image files causes AE to crash.No error message shows up and no crash log is generated in: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects\<version>\logsAE only crashes when importing 16-bit RPF. Importing 8-bit RPF works. Other image settings have no impact.All versions of AE from 24.6.5 to latest are affected.Importing the images in version 24.6.4 works.Can't attach sample files because the forum doesn't support RPF. But the images were generated using Cinema 4D by selecting RPF in "Render Settings > Save > Format" and setting "Depth" to either "8 Bit/Channel" or "16 Bit/Channel". Version numbers:From 24.6.5 to 25.2.0 Operating system:Windows 11 Pro 23H2 Steps to reproduce:1. Open AE.2. Import a 16-bit RPF image file.3. Add the image to a new composition.

gente troquei a placa de  video do pc pra um Rx590 Series, mas não reconhce no after effects 2024 nem 2025 , entre tanto testei um gtx 1050ti e fucinou.  apois isso testei a RX590 em uma versão  do after effects  de 2022 e fucionou  ja pesquisei fis tudo que manaram porem  não fuciona!

New version, same problem with RAMpreview render…Here's the crash report

In Teresa's original post about the AE Benchmark Project, the link to download the project itself is broken. (I assume this is an unintended casualty of the recent-ish cloud storage change). I commented on the post itself a few weeks ago, but I haven't yet seen a response, and have gotten a handful of folks messaging me directly about obtaining the project.Ideal: A more official page hosting this and other relevant AE projects / info. I know the "scores" posted by other users will get outdated as time passes, but that still seems like useful information for users to have access to, and could probably be made far more discoverable.

Basically, I'm trying to add a skew transition to one of the clips in my edit for Tiktok. The whole composition already has motion tile and wiggle position added onto the adjustment layer to create a panning/shake effect. The tutorial video i'm following says i need to add motion tile onto the individual clip too in order to acheive the skew transition but every time i do, these black lines appear around the edges of the clip, and no amount of adjustments to the position or scale gets rid of them. I was thinking it was because i already have motion tile added to the adjustment layer but i have this issue quite frequently when using AE. For example, I'd finish the whole edit and add the adjustment layer last for the shake effect, and the black bars appear again despite no motion tile being used anywhere else.  I would very much appreciate any help on this issue. Thanks

[Moderator: Updated title for clarity and making searching easier. This issue also affects Premiere Pro and Media Encoder.]   A month ago I updated my 2021 MacBook Pro to the latest Mac OS Sequoia 15.0.1 and that's when I began experiencing render issues when rendering H.264 from After Effects (2024 & 2025) or Media Encoder (2024 & 2025). The render plays back okay but when I scrub through, but when I scrub through the timeline, in AE, Quicktime, Frame.io, etc, I notice every 4th or so frame has terrible artifacting. I've been able to work around this for a month by sending ProRes LT to my clients, however now a client is asking for a H264 so I'm stuck trying to figure this out or encode it on an old MacBook that still has an older MacOS version.    If it helps at all, I've noticed when turning Audio Off when rendering through Media Encoder, the problem goes away, but obviously that's not a real solution. Anybody else have this issue and found a fix?   I'm

After installing 25.2.2 all type is now italics.  The issue does not extend to premiere - using the type tool there gives normal type.  but everything i type in AE is now in italics immediately followinng the update

Hi everyone,I have three keyframes on the Position property of an object. I want the third keyframe to automatically move the object by the same amount of distance as the movement between the first and the second keyframe.Is there a way to automate this using expressions or another method, so I don’t have to calculate and input the values manually? Thanks in advance!

Hello fellow users !I need to set the highest or the lowest point exactly at the left side of my comp.My wave width is set with a simple expression : W=thisComp.width/(effect("Slider Control")(1)*2);If my slider is set on "2", it'll ge me 2 waves.According to the AE reference : "Phase : The point along the waveform at which a wave cycle begins. For example, 0° start the wave at the midpoint of its downward slope, and 90° start it at the lowest point in the trough."Weirdly, I need to set the phase angle to 64,6° ish to have my waves start at the lowest point. And -64°ish to have it start at the highest point.Which isn't at all what's written in the AE documentation mentioned above.Can someone enlighten me ?I'll be much obliged.Many thanks in advance !

-Loaded up an older scene from AE 2016? some exrs, mov's amd png's (Some plugins from RG were missing, removed them and saved over, scene loads without warnings.)-Scrub back and forth in the timeline updates as expected. Looks okay.-Press spacebar to generate preview, begins to generate around 20-30 frames, then freezes AE, have to end task in task manager every time. Using brand new Windows 11, Ryzen 9 machine ,64MB ram Rebuilt the same comp from scratch  (2025.2.0 build 131) Works fine!

HiI wanted to render a comp but I encountered this error:"After Effects has encountered a failure related to GPU-enabled effects on this frame. This is likely because your GPU is out of memory."The render stops when gets to a glitch and zoom transition.I monitored the task manager during the rendering but the GPU uses not more than half of the memory capacity. However, AE can render the comp in both Open CL (using integrated Intel® UHD Graphics 630) and Software Only.My GPU works well with other projects. But in this case, it just uses 6% in the task manager before the failure.How can I solve this problem and use my GPU to help the rendering process?My system info:Intell i5-10600KGPU: GTX 1650 SUPER (4GB)All drivers are updatedNo CUDA toolkit installed. 

Hallo! Windows 11 Pro.AE 25.2.2 (Build 2)Projekt:OCIOACES 1.2 / both 1.332 bitWorkingSpace ACES CG Der Color Picker für Kontur im "neuen" Eigenschaften Bedienfeld "Text" pickt den Wert für Füllung z.B. RGB 3,3,3 nur als RGB 0.9373,0.9373,0.9373 - müsste aber 3.3.3 sein.Das ist auch anders rum so, also Füllung bei Kontur picken.Abhängig vom Anzeige Farbraum können auch andere falsche Werte entstehen. Mit den selben pickern die Werte aus dem Original Text Bedienfeld picken funktioniert.Im Original Text Bedienfeld funktionieren beide Picker wie man es erwartet.. Ist nicht wahnsinnig wichtig, aber schöner wärs ja, wenn es richtig funktioniert. Liebe Grüße!Matthias

Hi community. I have set in trapcode particular Emitter type to text. And go into the designer to pick a preset style.I can see the preset style with my text appearing, but when I hit the apply button, and go back into AE. I only see my font without the preset applied to it.  What other setting am I missing? Thank you.        

I have tried changing the text colors, resetting characters but nothing works. Its happening after the latest update

Hello AE Community, I have a weird issue that came up today. I cannot get ANY After Effects project to open in ANY of the 2023 After Effects versions. Whenever I try to open a project, it just hangs on a blank Open Project Window (screenshot attached below). Here is what I have tried so far, but didn't work: -Open project up from another drive-Open an autosaved version-Start a new project, and import an existing project-Reset After Effects settings to default-Uninstall and reinstall After Effects without migrating any settings (fresh start) Again, none of these worked. Everything would just lock up After Effects entirely. The only way out was to "End Task" in the Task Manager. Also (not sure if this is related), My mogrts keep going offline in Premiere Pro, which originated in After Effects. Any additional thoughts on what I can try?  Computer Information:Edition Windows 11 ProVersion: 21H2OS build 22000.1574Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900 @ 2.50

Cant open After Effects, I already give the permisions to adobe and I wont open.  HELP!

I try to open AE and a window pops up saying "validating software license" then it closes and pops up again saying the same thing. It does this over and over again and it won't open AE. This is incredibly frustrating as i need to work. This is unacceptable for a software program relied on by so may as a means to make a living.

Hi, when rendering my 4k comp I get the Error Code 19969 saying that GPU accelerated effects are causing the render to crash. When I switch to Software-Rendering, it works but takes a long time. I don't understand what is happeing here, there is nothing special in my compositon, just a buinch of footage and Lumetri Color Effects along with some Optical Flares. Happens in AE 2022 as well. Here's my setup:Latest AE Version 2023intel 9900k64gb Ram2x Nvidia RTX 3080 (10gb)Downloaded and installed the latest Nvidia Studio Driver.

I can see that this has popped up often in the past, but specifically in my case, it's related to importing Premiere Pro timelines into AE when there are keyframes on media: In the past couple of weeks, I have seen it caused by keyframes in Premiere on:Time-remappingOpacityTransformI have a hard time reproducing it at will, so there is something about either (1) the number of keyframes. (2) The location in the media of the keyframes. In particular, Time-remapping keyframes near the beginning of end of media might be a trigger. (3) Possibly a MacOS to Windows thing? Editors are on Macs, After Effects artists are on Windows boxes.In this current job that I am working, any media time-remapped by the Editor will trigger the error, but sometimes it's something else like Opacity keyframing. Windows 11 - AE 25.1