After Effects

Hi all, I've been animating for a small production company using the same hardware setup for a couple of years now, and fortunately, my bosses have recently decided it's time to get me an upgrade!We work in an almost exclusively Mac-based office, and despite what I've read about people moving away from Mac in favour of PC setups lately, I'm still pretty dead set on getting a Mac, just for office workflow purposes.Here's what I'm currently running:Mac Pro (Mid 2012)3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 32 GB 1066 MHz DDR3ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MBIt's been a pretty reliable workstation, but nowadays I'm experiencing a bit of slowdown, especially when it comes to opening Adobe programs (After Effects and Media Encoder specifically, although even Illustrator has been suffering from a bit of slowdown lately.)The 2019 Mac Pro is a little out of budget for us, and from reading a few forums, it seems as though the late 2013 Mac Pro is pretty terribly optimised for Adobe programs, so here's what I'm th

I am making a kinetic typography video on my mac using the latest (2017) version of after effects. I imported my audio file (which is 2mins long) and when i hit the spacebar to preview the sound this little green bar started loading across the top of my timeline then just stopped after about 5 seconds. Now, when i try to preview it it plays fine for the first five seconds and when it reaches the end of the green bar it just starts over? Now I can't listen to the rest of my audio to time out when my words should appear!

Using the bodymovin plugin to export JSONWhen I exclude the rasterized images there is no problem with the .JSON. But when I try to include a small jpg  the render fails.  I have the setting enabled to include images. I tried even smaller sizes (down to 10kb), PNG's and I tried saving for web in Photoshop. Any ideas?

 My bcc organic strands keeps crashing when I open it to the project  I put in ae I don't know why can somebody help?

it looks great in AE Program Monitor but as soon as I export the video it has some weird parts which are completely destroyed in quality and half blurred, Il try to post a pictures of both examples below, with an without halftone.The brighter image is with halftone and the one is not, you will clearly see what I mean by quality being destroyed after aplying the effect..I really like the look the halftone gives to your footage, and I would really like to use it in future projects.. (also, I've tried exporting only with halftone layer on, all other adjustment layers off (noise, glow etc..) and it still gives the same bad result, whole footage destroyed.. Im working in a 4k sequence 32bpc and export at 15bitrate. Please help..

Hi everyone,I’m having a persistent issue with Adobe After Effects 2025 where it crashes immediately on launch. Here’s what I’ve tried so far:Reinstalled After Effects multiple times.Used Adobe Cleaner Tool to remove all Adobe software and reinstalled.Deleted all third-party plugins I had installed.Checked the "Required" folder for unusual files (found secret.aep and Calder.plugin, which I moved out temporarily, but no luck).Repaired disk permissions and reset folder permissions via Terminal.The last log message I see is:Dernier message du journal:<861812> AppDiPs><5>Required Dir = /Applications/Adobe After Effects 2025/Adobe After Effects 2025.app/Contents/Required I’m not sure what else to try. Has anyone encountered this issue or have suggestions for further troubleshooting?Any help would be greatly appreciated!Thank you!

Notification cards across the UI interface that show what's new in the version make the program slow and unstable... and they keep coming back...

See that moon? I want to move the moon without moving the rest of the clip, but whenever I try it just moves the mask. Any ideas?

Trying to open the Squash and Stretch extension, I installed it using the installer and nothing is happening when I click on it. I'm on version 23.3.0  

My After effects won´t start anymore.it crashes upon the loading screen and shows the crash message: Last log message was: <145585> <MEE_Plugins> <5> /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore. My setup:MacBook M1Sequoia 15.0.1 I already tried older versions. I even reinstalled everything. But the error still remains. 

Intel QuickSync + dGPU aidQuickSync must paintings along dedicated GPUs to improve encoding performance.better CUDA core OptimizationCUDA utilization have to be improved for smoother GPU acceleration and common overall performance.more desirable software program EncodingFFmpeg outperforms After results in each manner. AE ought to permit users to choose export presets (Very speedy, speedy, sluggish, and so forth.) and help a much wider variety of formats.predominant 3-D functions & Optimization upgrades3D capabilities in After consequences are significantly lacking—currently sluggish, unoptimized, and inefficient compared to Blender.There have to be committed panels inside the 3-D workspace for shaders, interactive capabilities, and modifiers to streamline 3D workflows.AE wishes higher viewport optimization, permitting customers to interchange between distinct view modes for higher performance.The three-D machine calls for main enhancements so users don’t ought to depend on Blender

Hi there,Is there any way to get your H.264 exports color managed based on the project settings within after effects? Or are there any good export formats from adobe media encoder which don't mess around with colors?A bit of background info.. I'm exporting a piece of small motion graphics with a solid red background color which is my client's brand color (#dc1e35.)I'm using the H.264 format from Adobe Media Encoder and the result is something visually flatter and more desaturated.If I render from within after effects using QuickTime, the color is correct.I'm trying to share the files with people for sign off and the MP4 file is 15MB, easy to email but is the wrong color. The MOV file is 400MB so it cannot be emailed but is the correct color.I have opened both files in photoshop, using the eyedropper the MOV file color is exactly what I specified (#dc1e35), but the MP4 is not, it is #dd2a41.Thank you

This has been a constant problem for the last year. Within minutes of working I get low memory errors on a system with 192GB of RAM and 2tb dedicated scratch disk. This error occurs at all stages of production and/or rendering.Steps taken:Updated AE with each new releaseStress Tested RAM and CPUDisabled plugins and extensionsFull wipe and reinstall of the systemUpgraded GPU to RTX4080 SuperSystem Info:Windows 11Intel 13900KNvidia RTX 4080 Super192GB DDR-5 RAMAfter Effects 24.5Dedicated System SSD, Software SSD, Scratch SSD

Hi! I've reinstalled after effects after having to reinstall windows 11, and now, every time I open a file, send a comp to the render queue or try to save the project, a warning pops up: "After Effects warning: could not rename the file" (screenshot below). Before having to do this, everything was working just fine. I already tried to run it as administrator, change permissions on both, after effects folder and preferences folder, and even completely uninstalled all adobe apps, including the creative cloud app, removing every trace they left, and reinstall everything again. I still get this warning. Can someone help me please? It's a little annoying to get this warning pop-up all the time.

Hi all, I recently bought a CC pack from a content creator. It says i need to have certain plugins to use, when i try to download these plugins, it says i have to pay a lot of money for them, i was wondering if theres a way i can do this without having to do that. Please help. It says:BCCMagic Bullet LooksSappire

O problema ocorre ao tentar importar um arquivo do Cinema4D e ao tentar criar um pelo After Effects, o complemento do Cinema4D ja está instalado no After Effects, mas eu não consigo Instalar o App da Maxon. 

The new native OCIO color management in After Effects works great for me - but only if I export using the Render Que, where I can control the final Output Color Space using Color Tab of the Output Module.  This allows me to export my ACES footage as ACES/sRGB (olor_picking: Output - sRGB and Output/Output - sRGB options also work).  Using that export setting makes my exported footage match my working settings in After Effects using the OCIO ACES color management. But I see no way of doing this in Media Encoder.  The footage is always exported way too dark.  And the only output color options I see are greyed out. See screenshot. I am using macOS 12.6.3

I'm new to After Effects. I downloaded various templates from the Envato site, but when I import the AEP file into After Effects, I can't view it correctly. I get an error message relating to many files missing within the composition and what I see when I click on the rendering or on the individual level files is a box with many colored vertical stripes that move jerkily. Only the text appears correctly. Can anyone tell me why?

I'm working on a Premiere project that I started in 24.x and because Media Encoder was updated to 25.1, the dynamic linking broke and I had to update Premiere as well, and then AE.So now everything's on 25.1, and so every time I go back and use Edit Original in Premiere to open the AE composition, once AE has opened it asks me to save the AE project. It then forgets that it's saved that project, so it keeps opening the original converted one. As an example, I've just opened the project "Project (converted).aep" using Edit Original and because it demanded I save it, I saved it to "Project (converted) v3.aep". If I now close AE, when I reopen the project it will reopen "Project (converted).aep" and not "Project (converted) v3.aep" - and ask me to save it. I've tried resetting AE's preferences, and it hasn't fixed it. Any ideas?

error code error 21 but install windows 10, 32gb RAM, GeForce 1050 ti 4 gb, ryzen 7 1700, why it is not installed 

Hi! I can't figure out how to get this radiating aura line effect on a moving figure. Image below of the intended effect. I've gotten partway there by using radio waves on a mask shape, but the lines don't radiate evenly on all directions. Any advice? Have combed through many youtube videos, can't really find any examples of this but seems like it should be doable!! Thanks 🙂

Hi. I have some transpiled code ftom typescript to JavaScript ES3, with his corresponding sourceMaps. Is it posible to use this sourceMaps to exeute the breakpoitnts of the ExtendScript Debugger on the typescript code, instead of in the transpiled code? If not, is there any workarround to accomplish this?

We've got VFX turnovers (EXR files sequences) that come with CDLs (SAT/SOP) Mostly the VFX Vendors take care of all this on their end, but occasionally our AEs have to do it.What are various & best practices for applying CDLs in After Effects. Ideally we're looking at fast, reliable, and ultimately automateable using ExtendScript / Custom HTML Panel Extension