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Hi.So why does my edit looks so different when done rendering than when i previewed it? my issue is that when i added sharpen then rendered it i checked the finished video and it looks like i didnt add sharpen at all even tho when previewing (before rendered) it has sharpen in it. Then i added directional blur and brightness to the clip and when i rendered i saw the video and it looks so wierd, the brightness looks so light and the directional blur looks blurred and it doesnt look like directional blur at all, anyways i also decreased the opacity (from 100 to 0 keyframe) but when u rendered it looks so off, it looks like thisas you can see there are lines at the edge ( right when the opacity is starting to drop) im going to be showing you what the directional blur and brightness looks like before rendered: and what it looks like after: please help me

Maybe I'm a fool for asking this question; nothing is at 100% in the Task Manager, and After Effects can't rotoscope and freeze-frame faster. 

I upgraded to AE 2025, but noticed this problem in the previous version -2024.At first, everything is fine with the project. Importing and saving the project work stably. But AE can slow down a lot on one of the files, files can take a very long time to import - several minutes (regardless of size or format). The same thing begins to happen with saving (it can last 5 minutes or more, although the number of files and their size are small).PC Features:- AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor - 64 GB RAM- Nvidia RTX 4080P.S. I reinstalled windows and it didn't help (maybe the problem is in some plugin). We are talking about new projects, not imported ones from somewhere

Title. Attempting to import a .fla gives an error stating adobe animate is not installed, even though it is. Same issue when attempting to use media encoder from after effects. Animate and media encoder are able to communicate with no issue, only after effects is having problems. Uninstalling and reinstalling after effects has not helped, uninstalling and reinstalling animate has not helped. Is there something I can change in the preferences?

Hi! I'm trying to animate a text that moves down the screen and gets shredded, just like in a paper shredder. What would be the best way to do this? What I've done so far is: 1. Made the text in illustrator and then split the text using a number of rectangles, so each layer is one "paper strip" each. 2. In after effects I've parented the position of all the text strips to a null object, so the "paper" moves uniformly down the screen. 3. Tried using the puppet tool to individually move the strips when they go through the "shredder". I find it really hard to control the strips with the puppet tool, and I'm sure there are much easier ways to do this. Grateful for any help! 

I'm getting a lot of this warning:"Your disk cache folder is on a drive that does not have enough available space to safely store the full amount specified in your preferences."My setup an settings are:AE 2018 fully updated.Disk cache is its own 500GB SSD, after clearing AE Cache, there is 400gb free space on that drive.Maximum Disk Cache Size is to to 200 GBWhy do I keep getting this message?

When I start After Effects, a dialog pops up, stating that my cache folder is on a drive that does not have enough available space to safely store the full amount specified in your preferences...How do I resolve this?I have never used the software before, so it's not as though I tampered with the setting...I used Windows 8.1PC is a Dell XPS 15 with 16Gb RAM[Moved from non-technical Forum Lounge to specific Program forum... Mod][Here is the list of all Adobe forums... https://forums.adobe.com/welcome]

Using after effects 2025 on Macbook pro 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4 GBIntel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB, Memory: 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 and running on Mac os Sonoma Version 14.6.1I keep loading up images and there pixalted and glitching, I have an imported logo and its and mov file not sture if thats the issue.   

Hi Fellows, Hope you all are doing well.From the last few Days i'm facing a problem in after effects that when i place 3D Object in the scene and camera follow the charcter the object will be disapper at the end please help me to get out from this.. thanks in advance 

all the video editing softwares are not showing previews even when i updated all the nvidia driversand and run the cc cleaner nothing seems to work only the time line moving but witout any view is there any specific diver i need to install to windows to work properlyrtx4060 16g32ramgen13 core i 7and i added all the apps to high performance graphic list 

I have a comp with 51 shape layers & lots of expressions, which makes After Effects lag a lot (as usual), BUT it's worse in Ae2023 than previous versions.To show the issue, I've made these two GIFs, from Ae2021 and Ae2023, to show how long it takes to just deselect all the layers.The click is shown by a yellow circle under the mouse cursor at the beginning. The first one is Ae 2021, and the delay between the click and the actual deselection is already quite annoying, I've measured it to be 1.5s (I've run the test several times to get the average time)The second one is Ae 2023, the delay is 2.5s. I just can't work anymore with After Effects with this lag, it's just a no-go, and I'm going to recommend to everyone to not update if they're going to work with Duik. One just can't work correctly with that.If it lags so much for simple actions like (de)selection, just imagine how painful it is to precisely adjust any value. IMHO it is more than urgent that After Effects lags lik

Hi all,About a hundred times a day I select a work area and then want to zoom in so that the work area fills the timeline view. Have searched high and low and can't find a way to easily do this (keyboard shortcut or otherwise), It seems like such an obvious thing people would want to do, so I'm hoping I just haven't found the shortcut. Can anybody help me out?Thanks in advance,Lori

Hi After Effects Community,I’ve been encountering a frustrating issue when trying to transfer my video edits between Adobe After Effects and CapCut. I often work on complex edits and animations in After Effects, and then share the projects with collaborators who use other video editing platforms like CapCut. However, I’ve noticed that many of the effects and transitions I create in After Effects don’t translate properly or are outright missing when the video is imported into CapCut. I'm sharing the URL also of the version of capcut I used.URL: https://capcetapk.com/capcut-for-pc/

Every time I start AfterEffects I get an error as it's looking to find my recent projects.  The error is as follows:  "Unable to execute script at line 1. File or folder does not exist."  I have not changed the location of any of my project files.  It's the same external drives I've been using for months.  When I click OK the same window opens several more times and then finally the history window opens completely blank and empty.  I am able to reopen the projects however from the RECENT PROJECTS pulldown in the top bar.  It's very odd and worrying behavior.  As well, I'm still using 13.7.2 because when I go to update it is unable to connect and gives me that error.  I sat on with Adobe support for an hour today and we couldn't figure it out.  As I'm in the middle of big projects I just decided to not update, but this error upon startup is very worrying.  Anyone have an idea what could be going wrong or how I can fix it?Many thanks

I have been using After Effects for a work project to rotoscope out some people from footage provided to me and I have done this process 6 times now but all of a sudden with this file, when I start to render and when viewing the file after rendering, the rotoscope effect is essentially disabled. The only signs that something is being rotoscoped is some small, transparent gaps in the final render. Images and export settings attached. I'm not sure what is going wrong here since I have done this many times, even a restart hasn't fixed it, help very much appreciated, thank you!

whenever I try to use Roto brush my after effects crashes..check the video below

Bonjour, Je suis désespérée...Lorsque je crée un texte sous after (v23.3 maj) et que j'écris des chiffres, la barre d'écriture passe à l'avant du texte et je ne peux plus écrire à la suite... Si je rajoute du texte il passe devant les chiffres ! Je ne sais même pas comment expliquer ça tellement c'est suréaliste... Par exemple je tape 1,3 Kg mais after m'affiche Kg 1,3 à l'écran alors que sur le nom de mon calque j'ai bien 1,3 kg !!!! Je ne comprends pas du tout ce qu'il peut se passer... Quelqu'un a-t-il déjà eu ce bug? Merci de votre aide !

I've read lots of help topics trying to solve this and can't. I regularly get videos to edit or add subtitles to supplied as a .mov file, but within After Effects and when I export it looks faded like I've added a filter. I often don't notice this until the client comments, and then have to add Lumetri filters, and there's never one approach that will solve it (it starts to look to yellow or too pink when I just increase the contrast and saturation), so it can take a long time to fix. My Project Color Setting is 'None', I've tried a few others and all look worse. What can I do to avoid this happening, or solve it every time?  The screenshot shows how it looks in Preview, and it looks ovbiously faded and dull in After Effects. This is before any edits. Sometimes (like this case) there are sections with white copy, so I don't have the ability to add a tint as that makes the copy the wrong colour.  

After creating a shape eg rectangle, moving it and setting a position key on this object its anchor point jumps to random position. Steps to reproduce:Install AE 2025 and run itEnable "Center anchor point in new shape layers" in preferencesCreate a shape eg rectangle Move the shape to a different position Set a position keyAs the result of setting a key the Anchor point jumps itself to different position

I need to export this video 20 seconds long. The files are all in place, but when I export there is a file but no way to play it. I need to turn feild rendering off. 60fps. needs to be a .mov file. I have even just tried exporting it as a draft H.264... but still won't preview or play after export. Please has anyone got a solution. Thanks, Mike 

here are the details Auusda 15.6" Laptop Intel Alder N95, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Windows 11 Pro Work Computer, Fingerprint Reader, Backlit Keyboard, Silver Screen size15.6 in15.6 inProcessorIntelIntelRam memory16 GB16 GBHD capacity512 GB512 GBBattery life4 h4 hWeight3.7 lbs3.7 lbsTouchscreenNNResolution1920 x 10801920 x 1080FeaturesBacklit KeyboardBacklit KeyboardOSWindows 11 ProWindows 11 Pro