After Effects

Whenever I open any After Effects project, I get a grey blank screen in my composition preview window. All I see are the two options to create a new comp, or new composition from footage. Occasionally, if I reset my preferences to default by launching After Effects and holding down CTRL + ALT + SHIFT, it will resolve the problem, however, it may take a couple tries. Resetting the workspace does not work, creating a new workspace does not work, and creating new comps makes no difference. Zooming in to fit the screen to 100% does not work either. So for now, I am just forced to constantly try and restart my AE in different ways through a project file, through administrator, or through resetting preferences and hopefully one of them will work to display my composition.While this is a work around it takes time and shouldn't be happening to begin with. Any idea what the solution is here? Seems like the 2018 releases of Adobe are pretty glitchy. Premiere Pro is also giving off a weird glitch

Hello Adobe Community, Recently, I updated After Effects from Version 24.1 to 24.3. Now After Effects crashes any time I try to use Cinema 4D (a .c4d file). If I try to import a .c4d file, AE will crash. If I try to open a project with a .c4d file already in it, it will crash. I have some AE compositions dynamically linked in my Premiere Pro sequence. Premiere Pro is unable to export because of this, too. I tried rolling back After Effects and Premiere Pro to 24.1, but the problem is still here. Updating After Effects to 24.4 made no difference, either. I can open the Cinema 4D file perfectly fine within Cinema 4D. Adobe Support was able to open my After Effects project without a problem. So it's something strange on my computer. So far, none of these work:-Uninstall and reinstall the apps-Removing 3rd party plug-ins (it's a Cinema 4D issue anyway)-Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool (and reintall)-Give all Adobe folders and app full disk permissions OS Details:-Edition Wi

Hi l am running AE 2017.2 and AME 2017.1.2 on a PC and for some reason the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+M to start up AME and add a composition to AME render queue has stop working. The weird thing is that the command from "Composition" drop down menu in AE works but just not the shortcut. It does not make any difference if AME is already running, and l have uninstalled and reinstalled both AE and AME with no success in fixing the problem. I have never altered the Adobe After Effects 14.2 Win en_US Shortcuts.txt  file so l am not sure what other options there are to look into fixing this issue.Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I want to apply this expression but also want them all to blink individually.  I dnt want to copy paste the layers. I want them all to stay under one Layer as 'Contents' but also want them all to blink individually not all simualtaneously like happening in my animation. Please guide me. Is there any way I can do this with any expression? 

Hi everyone, All of a sudden my text / layers are not previewing / showing up in the Composition / Preview Playback screen. These layers all worked and showed up fine in a previosuly saved version of the same project. Other layers in this project are still showing up fine. Music is fine.... it is simply all the text layers are now not showing up.  I have attached a screen capture showing the previous version in which the text sowed up and the newer file where the text is not showing up. I'm on a new Macbook Pro 16, running 10.15.3After Effetcs 2020 Thanks so much. Very much approeciate any feedback. I am new to AE, searched and searched but coiuld not find anything on this. 

I would like to apply a blur effect to low contrast areas of the image, but not to high contrast areas (edges) of the image? How to go about doing this?I have been playing around with "Find Edges" but don't know how to go about this. 

Hey all!So I'm having trouble with the color on export from AE. I shot a test HDR video from my iPhone 15 Pro, and imported both into Premiere Pro and After Effects. Did nothing to adjust either, and exported using a preset I created (screenshot below). The AE file was exported through Media Encoder to ensure the same preset as the PR file.The result of the image is dramatically different, and I'm just not sure if there's another setting I should be changing in AE to get the same image result as Premiere Pro? Played with all kinds of things, but can't seem to get it right. Any advice is appreciated!End result clearly shows HDR through Pr, but not through Ae. Color portion of my preset:  

I am working with a tiktok clip and have the specified format 1080*1920 in my comp.whats the best settings for rendering this? I use match source and its OK but is this the best?

Hi, Can anyone please guide me on why am losing my artwork after parenting? Any one? Thank you so much.   

crashing every 5 to 10 minutes,  full res view looks normalYes - I updated after effectsYes - I updated graphics cardMy SystemOS: Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit 10.0.16299CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HK CPU @ 2.90GHzRAM: 32409MBGPU Vendor: NVIDIA CorporationGPU: GeForce GTX 1060/PCIe/SSE2GPU Driver: 23.20.16.4973GPU RAM: 6144MBGPU Code: 0CL0: Intel(R) HD Graphics 630 (47.6%) (GL Interop)CL1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HK CPU @ 2.90GHz (4.8%)CL2: GeForce GTX 1060 (47.6%)

ReasonWe mostly use Premiere Pro for generating automated transcriptions. However, it has some limitations.Why?Premiere Pro supports only 18 languages(approx), but there are thousands of languages spoken in the world.So, should we stop using our mother tongue?No. Use it proudly.My mother tongue is Bengali, and I am from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.Process-I manually type the subtitles using Subtitle Edit software (an open-source tool).I import the SRT file into After Effects using pt_ImportSubtitle (a paid AE script).Next, I use pt_LayerMarker (a paid AE script) to split the text layer marker-wise so that I can apply custom animations. These animations are trending on social media and are effective for growing businesses.Now, each layer contains several anchor points and source text keyframes.If the keyframes are not deleted, it becomes impossible to split the text word by word using Text Exploder (a paid AE script by Mamoworld), which results in an error.My QuestionAfter importing the

Sample video I'm experiencing issues with the preview in After Effects. When I move along the timeline, I notice flickering in what would be the render viewer. However, when I play the project and let it run for the assigned time on the timeline, it displays normally.This problem started on Friday, 01/16/2025. Today, Sunday the 19th, I haven’t been able to resolve it.Before opening After Effects on Friday, I updated the graphics driver (a single update). I’m using a notebook (Bangho Max L5) with an Intel i5 processor (Windows 10 Pro OS), Iris Xe graphics, 32 GB of RAM, and three drives: (C) 222 GB, (D) 931 GB, and (E) 1.81 TB.Here’s what I’ve tried:Uninstalling the graphics driver and reinstalling it... (No apparent result)Trying to install a driver version prior to the update I performed (Couldn’t do it); I have the drivers updated as of 01/19/2025Uninstalling After Effects and reinstalling it (No apparent solution)Installing a previous version (25.1) from Creative Cloud (No appa

AE 2025Windows Hello, I experienced a few issues while creating an animation. Expressions wouldn’t work, animation I created disappeared on 4 occasions and had to be created again. Once I finally completed a task that should have taken my 4 hours, but was all day, I am not able to render in either Media Encoder of the Render Que in AE 2024 won't open the file. I see nothing on the forum, bit Co-Plot let me know that there are issues. I thought it was my laptop. all my drives are up to date, and I regularly clear cache.  Do we know if these issues will be fixed? I am thinking of starting over in AE 2024, which makes me want to cry.   Dawn

hey, I need help with a very weird problem. I have attached a screen recording to show the problem as clearly as possible.So I have a composition ‘10PC vierkanten2’ whose trasform settings I adjust in the composition ‘S5 vierkanten’. When I put the composition ‘S5 vierkanten’ in the composition ‘2a’, sometimes the settings don't come through depending on which layer the composition is on.Should anyone see or know how this comes about, please let me know. 

I have duplicated a layer in the timeline. I then want to use the atttributes I have set up on that layer on another composition. The method to achieve this I am told is to drag the composition from the project panel  over the selected layer in the timeline. When I do this my AE 26.3.0 is only adding the composition as a new layer in the timeline, not nesting the new composition within the layer and updating the layer title with the new comp title as expected. 

Hi, I'm pretty new to after affects and have been using the mask tracking features, and for my project i am putting a image behind a tracked mask so it shows the image over the video but im having trouble with tracking the image with the mask(the image kind of moves away while the mask stays where it needs to be). how do I track the image with the mask. I have tried using a null object and linking it with the image while having the mask path pasted on the null image and I have tried linking the position of the image to the mask and nothing works

Has anyone experienced this issue when AE project even though it's not heavy or complex suddenly becomes slower and slower to the point you can't work with it anymore and have to start again a new one?I've already experienced it in Beta and the latest AE version on 2 different projects.It started when PSD text layers has been changed to text layers. Might be unrelated but after this not only the preview but the whole AE became sluggish.

Please help...I am a newbie when it comes to importing an .obj into After Effect and am running into an annoying problem.I have created a simple 3D model of unfolded book in Adobe Dimensions. On the top pages I placed a jpg representing a spread from a picture book. The material of these pages is a mat. In Dimensions, this goes well.Once imported into After Effects as an .obj, the material is no longer matte, but far too glossy. I have played with different light sources in After Effects, but since I want to rotate the object a little bit, a moment always occurs when the pages become tooglossy. Texts and illustrations become irradiated and are no longer readable.Doesn't an .obj include the material specifications (applied in Adobe Dimensions) when you import it into After Effects? I realize that it is a crossover of 2 software programs , however, I do not know where the problem lies. Perhaps it is impossible to change or fix the matte material.I asked the same question in the Adob

I'm curious to know if there's an intuitive way to accurately sync the scale, position and rotation of a textured GLTF model to a solid layer with Trapcode emitter from OBJ. I've animated the GLTF model in the advanced 3d settings of one composition and have brought that into a main comp where I'm looking to emit particles from an OBJ. The issue I'm having is eyeballing the Trapcode OBJ to be the same size and scale as the True 3D GLTF. Since the Trapcode solid is 2D, this is all done in Trapcode layer settings and it's not very precise. Any tips or suggestions are much appreciated!

all components object turn transparent once i change the comeponent render mode to Advanced 3D. in Adobe After Effects 2024 v24.2.1 My pc has a xeon processor, 16 GB of RAM, and 8 GB of VRAM I don not have any  external plugins installed.Please i really need your help with this i don't know what to do again.