After Effects

whenever i import ai format image to after effects the quality of the image decreases significantly, and i dont know how to fix it by turning the rasterization on it helped a bit but still not the desired quality

Hello! I'm having issues with my After Effects eating up all my memory on my computer. I was having this issue and then got a new computer with 32 GB of memory and it's still eating up everything. I'm using the Roto Brush tool and inititally it was crashing on me whenever I used it, but now with the new computer it's just throwing me a warning saying there's not enough memory. I tried messing with the Memory & Performance settings and it didn't do anything to help. I'm fairly new to After Effects, so I don't know if this is user error or if it's a system thing. Is there something I should be doing differently? Thanks!

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Unstable releases- I am seriously considering not updating to new versions at least until 2 revisions.

I'm looking to see if a layer has an effect, and if not apply it. How to do check if a layer in a comp has a specific effect applied i.e. "camera lens blur", and if it's not there, apply it with specific values? Alternately, if the effect is applied, change the value to a desired value? (I think, I can figure this part out once the first part is answered, but this is where I'm headed) As always, thanks for your input.

The problem started just today. When I try to open the Mister Horse plugin panel, the program crash, every single time. I tried to uninstall AE, the MH plugin, update, etc. but nothing works. Any of you guys have some idea of how to solve this issue? Thanks.

Lasers, dinosaurs and space VFX are cool, but every so often you need to roll up your sleeves to add effects that hide problematic elements in a shot. Reflective surfaces are a great way for production equipment to wind up in a scene which ruins the illusion. Recently a friend of mine had such an issue and asked if there was anything I could do to hide a light's reflection in a painting. To make matters worse, one of the scene's actors moves infront of the reflection!   Follow along with me as I use the included Boris Mocha AE planar tracker to isolate the painting. Once I have it tracked, I bring the painting in Photoshop to make use of Content Aware Fill and then finally cut out the waiter with the Rotobrush tool.     Project Files: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/755wzxszajhxnt9bpewnj/Restaurant-with-Light.zip?rlkey=kyjt0rpdrwrdfpcskdhqt86vk&st=qtr20pc2&dl=1 

Hello friends and Happy New Year!I would like to ask something that has been asked many times but there is a detail which has not been answered.My issue is the following:As you know, there is the well known rolling credits jittering issue. There is the flickering issue, as well. I know that you must not use 100% white font color. But even if I use 90% or 80% or 70%, there is still a little flickering going on. I cannot go under 70% because in my credit roll there are some words that are less "bold" than others and when the font color is at 70%, they look two dark.The other thing is the well known issue of using an expression so the scrolling can be smoother, without jittery font edges.The thing with this expression, though, is that you cannot easy ease the scrolling speed at the end. As a result, the credit scroll stops very abruptly.The abrupt stop is may main issue. The expression which forces the animation move every pixel (so you avoid subpixeling issues) is useless to me if I can'

Hello I'm a beginner editor and I've encountered a very annoying problem that I can't solve. When I use the Pen Tool to make my path, it doesn't seem to round, but when I attach an object to the path to move it, it moves around the curve correctly. It's visually very tiring, can it be fixed? The picture shows how angular the path is, but it shouldn't be like that. Regards and please help 😕😕 

In my other laptop it was working fine.This is my new laptop with a NVIDIA 1050Ti. When I am making a new composition, no preview is shown. There is nothing even when I am adding an image.I tried reinstalling it. I fiddled with some settings. CAPS lock is off. I also tried porting the settings from old laptop.Still not working.

How do I get back my " add" button in After Effect, the contents does not have the add button next to it, and I seem not to know what to do... help 

Salve a tutti!Sono entrata da poco nel magico mondo della creative cloud ed ho cominciato ad installare i vari softwares sul mio mac. Pochi minuti fa ho completato l'installazione di After Effect e, controllando nel Lanchpad, ho scoperto di aver contemporaneamente scaricato Cinema 4D (non licenziato, quindi in versione trial). Il problema è che io non ho nè visitato alcun sito Maxon nè ho rischiesto alcuna installazione del software suddetto.Domanda: è una sorta di pubblicità inclusa in after effect o, non so come, la Maxon si 'infiltra' nella creartive cloud? Attendo con ansia risposta illuminante 🙂Katia

A certain file keep crashing when I scrub the timeline or sometimes even after it's immediately opens.  

My AE comp renders as a full-length video of a black screen (with audio, when enabled). Comp plays fine in RAM preview, and I've tried all types of codecs and disabling RAM intensive effects, though I'm working on a quad-core i7 macbook pro with 8 gigs of RAM, so that shouldn't be a problem. Have followed tutorials to a T, and haven't found any help elsewhere online. Standard 1080p hd output. Please help!

 I am trying to automate the rendering of a very large number of projects (5-15k), however on mac, whenever I use the -reuse flag (since restarting aerender every time becomes untenably slow, where %95 of per project render time is aerender opening and closing aerendercore/whatever render engine is being used).  Trying to launch with a simple test project from terminal: % ./aerender -project ~/Desktop/test.aep -comp Comp 1 -output ~/Desktop/sap_out/out\[####\].tiff -reuseaerender version 22.6x64aerender ERROR -1712: AESend failed to send apple event at line 939 Where test.aep is just a comp with a single solid layer, although that doesn't matter since it obviously fails way before it ever connects to AE. I've made sure that an instance of AE is running (I've tried both render engine and normal), I've enabled automation of AE in privacy settings (and full disk access, just in case), and nevertheless the problem persists. This error appears to be propagating

I do not encounter this problem when working in After Effects. I get this problem when I close the work after it is finished. The program gives an error and closes, and when I try to open it again, that work does not open.

Hi, Some days ago my AE started with this issue, this popup happens when i close AE: After Effects Error: Crash occurred while invoking plug-in "CEP Manager" (image 1)I have problems inside Ae and i dont know if they happen because of this:- I can't write nor delete layers.- Not all Shorcuts work.- Can't change comp names.I've already reseted preferences, uninstall and used CC Cleaner Tool, all of this multiple time with no change.Even after using Cleaner tool, when i reinstall Ae and open it, it gives me the message that it crashed before  (image 2) and if i want to start in safe mode. which i've done multiple times with the same results. But weirdly still happens after clean install and deleting preferences.So i dont know what else to do and i can't find any other solution online.This happens on a Macbook Pro 14-inch, 2021, with Sonoma 14.3.1 and Ae is in the last update 24.2.1 (build 2).

Hi, please help me. I installed a plugin that isn’t working. After uninstalling the plugin, Media Encoder stopped opening when I tried to import my project. Initially, After Effects wasn’t working, but I fixed that. Now Media Encoder shows this error.

I created a composition in Illustrator and animated some elements in After Effects. There is an expression to ghet a flicker effect and some animated fire works. When I export as an Animated GIF from AE, I get lots of artifacts across the entire image.  Before you say, "do it in Photoshop", a lot of work and many layers went into the original Illustrator composition. Any suggestions? When I export the same clip an Mp4, there is no artifact issue.Thanks

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I'm posting this PSA in the hopes that people will find this from searches, instead of spending hours or days debugging, or even returning their computer as one person said they did. Problem: Mac computers (possibly limited to M1/M2 Apple Silicon machines) have a major bug with dual or multiple monitors and certain creative or graphically demanding applications. After Effects exhibits laggy ram preview playback. I've also seen issues with UI lag in Blender, and heard scattered similar reports from other programs as well. Solution: turn ON Displays Have Separate Spaces under System Settings > Display and Dock > Mission Control. I personally experienced this with a new Mac Studio M2 Ultra, Apple Studio Display, and an LG DualUp display. No configuration of ports, HDMI, Thunderbolt, etc resolved the issue, but disconnecting either monitor did fix it. This led me to the Spaces fix, and I've since seen it corraborated by other users, and Adobe employee Jenkmeister

I dont know which tutorial to watch or the exact terms. But I want to make a layered video collage like the MatchBox Twenty - Wild Dogs music video. where do I begin? What tutorials should I watch? Whats the technical way to describe what I want to do? Id want to interplay between positive and negative space with the figure. https://youtu.be/8ollM1DlRBs?si=F4Gheoh1Dk0FMykN

Tengo un problema con una composición a la que le aparece una capa de fondo que no está en esa composición (valga la redundancia), por ende no puedo ni borrarla ni hacer nada. Cuando exporta, sigue apareciendo justo cuando ya no hay contenido en pantalla. La misma se ve justo cuando no hay ningún elemento activado en la comp, ya sea que esté reproduciendo vista previa o no (incluso se ve si no hay nada, como se muestra en esta captura de pantalla).  Ya revisé si tenía el tímido activado y no estaba activa esa función, tampoco habían elementos en la composición con ese definidor activo. Incluso intenté eliminar del proyecto la capa que me da el error y sus copias, pero aún se seguía viendo. También vi que, si tengo alguna otra capa activa con contenido en pantalla (así sea un solo píxel), desaparece la que no se dejaba de ver. Ya intenté cerrando y abriendo el programa, además de probar con autosaves que no me habían dado antes ese error, pero también se sigue viendo.Tengo After Ef

Hi there,  I hope someone could help me out with an issue I am having with a rendered animation from after effects. I want to post an animation on Instagram but my phone wont read the H.264 video. I keep getting this message "sorry, this type of video cannot be saved to this device". What I am I doing wrong, what setting can I choose so that my iphone can play my video? 

So i basically started my ae, and my timecode are just five numbers here is a photo, someone please help me. AE pro's or people good with systems or ANYBODY help!!