After Effects

I am trying to figure out how to do a full rotobrush analysis with one click.  In a given clip I have 1300 frames. Baseframe is frame 620. If cursor is at frame 620 and I hit spacebar then I see the clip going from frame 620 to end, and the span bar will become green as it is moving forward.  THen when it gets to end I see the span bar becoming green starting at frame 620 to the beginning.  At the end, it seems the analysis is all done. But only one half of the span bar remains shown in green. Like this: Why is that? Is this a glitch? The mask seems to have been propogated everywhere, so I just don't understand why there is this visual cue showing the span bar green only for the backwards direction analyzed frames.  Ideas?

Hi, I’m developing a plugin for After Effects and noticed that my plugin receives two render commands for a single frame. I suspect one is for preview and the other for final output. I don't want to apply my effect twice for a single frame, as it utilizes deep learning model, which has significant latency. Even though I read through the SDK document, I couldn't find relevant options. •How can I detect if the current render command is specifically for preview?•Is there a specific flag or selector in the PF_InData structure to differentiate between preview and full-quality rendering? Any code snippets or pointers to relevant documentation sections would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hello,I've recently started using After Effects. Everytime I want to change the font family of a text, a warning pops up stating: 'Unable to set transform. GDI Status: Invalid Parameter.' When I click OK, the warning keeps popping up and so I can't move on.  Does anyone know how to fix this or what I might be doing wrong? Working with:AE version 23.2.1 (Build 3)Windows 11 Home (version 22H2)

Hi forum. Has anyone used or know a softwate which is capable of generating large scale sprite sheets?I have been requested by a developer to make a controller ( Control knob ) 150 frames, and the PNG images, to be in 3 different dimensions: 500 px X 500 px1000 px X 1000 px1500px X 1500 pixels I found online a after effects script plugin called Sheetah, has anyone used it? I'd like to keep within AE for my tasks, as Im more comfortable doing this. I know about adobe animate, but I dont know how to use it.  Thank you.  

Hey, i have a big problem with all my CC and i don't know why, since i solve the problem of mojo II parasytes I have now a pb for rendering. It takes a lot of time for just a render of 15s of video. If someone have the solution i'm open to it because it annoys me a lot.

fig 1. is before adding the invert effect,fig 2. is after adding the invert effect, the whole thing goes black instead of being inverted. Changing the channels doesn't fix the problem.I tried doing it to a regular layer, and then to a pre-composed layer/composition. Doesn't solve it either. Does anyone have any idea what the issue is?

This one is for the After Effects developers:I have never posted to Adobe's community page before, but the ridiculous amount of lag and delay caused by a simple text layer in After Effects has enraged me to the point of making this post. Why on God's green Earth does a text layer cause so much of a delay in After Effects. Is it a processing issue? Is it because there are text animators programmed into those layers? Why?!I am currently working on a project that only requires me to type in some text into a text layer, and each time I type a word or change a spelling error it takes literal minutes for the change to be applied. TO TEXT!! Why?! I am typing directly into After Effects too, no other programs.So I beg you, for the love of all that is holy and just, please make the Text layers more optimized. Forget your generative tools, I just want to be able to type a message and edit the text in real time, without my whole computer bogging down to the point of shut down.Please and than

I am trying to create a 3D scene with light leaks, and some CC effects. Any time I add a few effects to the timeline, it crashes on me. I've done the usual things like clearing cache, making sure everything is updated, restarting the PC, etc. Nothing is helping. The machine I am working on was built last year and contains an Intel® Core™ i9-13900KS Processor, 128gb DDR5 ram, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Please give me any help. I have a deadline I'm missing because of this.  

so i split a video and deleted a portion in the middle that i didn't want, but now the audio is lagging. its not synced with the clips i have

Hi, I have a 3D object that I want to continuously bob up and down but I'm having trouble finding an expression to do this.I would use wiggle on the Z except wiggle creates random motion and I need consistant up and down oscillations.It seems simple but I can't figure it out... any ideas? Thanks.-Pete

Hello, I'm kinda desperate here ... I'm using adobe since years and it never been stable to me. My mac computer was near death and couldnt handle after effect anymore i bought 3 months ago a 6000$ computer :Processeur Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KF 3.20 GHzMémoire RAM installée 128 Go DDR5RTX 4090 NVIDIA2To Cache SSD  And still as soon as i put Pixel motion AE, the project crashes immediatly, i even have Blue screen of death. Exactly the same on my mac that is 7 years old ! 3 type of crash for the same effect : - Blue screen of death- No error just crashing without a word- some error  I've tried several fix online, clean install, preference setting, preview settings etc etc none of them work. Job that should take few minutes can take days because of this. 

Helo EverybodyI need help .I Cant find Multiframe Rendering Option In After Effects  And Premiere Pro Cpu Specs:Hp z820 (Dual Prosesors Intel Xeon E5-2687W)56 Gb Ram2 gb graphic card gtx 7602 tb hdd250 bg ssdwindows 10 EnterprisesAfter Effects Version 17.0.4 (updated)Premiere Pro Version 14.0 All System Drivers Up To Date  

Hello, I have a very specific issue for an mogrt animation.So i have a box that grow horizontally, then a text appear in it. I need to have that box growing at the same size than my text (So First key frame will always be the same, but the last one will change).I can do it in after effect with the Essential Graphics panel but as soon i export in mogrt to use in premiere, the growing animation don't happend. The box just stay at the final size, removing the growing part. Is there a way to make it in y way to keep that growing animation ? Thanks !

Reporting After Effects 2025 crashed again today killing my bluetooth Windows 11. I9 128GB ram 2040This version is crashing and causing me to lose work. Very frustrating for how much money it costs and released in such terrible state. It won't render if you have any optical flow blending turned on any layer.Screen goes black constantly and very laggyCrash, Crash Crash.These are all the same projects that render and work fine in 2024, so full blame here on the recent update.

The program doesn't indicate the correct location of the saved file.Hi, in short – I have a file saved in the "XYZ" folder on the D drive. When I open it and try to save the file again using the "Save as..." option, it doesn't show the destination folder where the file is saved. Instead, it shows the last file opened with After Effects.I'd like to add that something must have changed after the update because it worked fine for years. Other applications like Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign work correctly in this regard. Is there any way to restore the functionality so that the "Save As" option points to the folder where the file I'm currently working on is saved?

Hello, I have a question, how to correctly make a smooth wiggling for example, as in my case hand and fingers, without stopping? (I have attached an example of how I would like to do)https://youtu.be/aRHncsjW1VY

Hi all, I have a 9x16 composition. The adjustment layer is just as big as the comp size. There aren't any masks being used. The ground level on CC Snowfall is set to 100% the entire time. Yet, the effect stops short of bottom of the comp. It might be a bit hard to see, but there's quite a bit of solid space at the bottom. Does any know what could be causing this? 

ok here's the deal... This is a thing that also happens in Photoshop and it's annoying (and pretty much useless): Let's say I create a new project with the name "Hello" and I save it. Then I modify it or add new stuff and I save it with the name "Bye". But, when I do that, instead of keeping open the version that I just saved (the file named as "Bye"), the original project ("Hello") remains open, so If I continue to modify it and save it, ofc it overwrites the original project instead of the second version I created Is there a way to revert that or modify that somehow? Perhaps for some people, this new way of saving makes sense, but in the workflow where I work at, it's pretty annoying and has caused a lot of trouble. All of my coworkers have accidentaly rewritten a file this way or modified the original project instead of the new version so... yeah

After Effects versions 25.0.1 and 24.6.3 both have the same issue. When I put Lumetri Color to video the following error appears:After Effects warning: Invalid menu operation. Then when trying to do anything another error comes: After Effects error internal verification failure, sorry! {invalid index in indexed group} The 2nd window needs to hit ok about 50 times for get it off. The Lumetri Color doesn't work. I haven't had this error ever before. It appered yesterday. I managed to use Lumetri Color perfectly in start of November or at least in end of October.I read that this have happened before in 2020, 2022 and 2023. The solution was new NVIDIA drivers. My GPU is GTX 1080 ti and the driver is v566.14 (Nov 12, 2024), which is newest. It might be the problem this time also. I had older drivers when Lumetri Color worked. I have also updated After Effects every time it is possible. Anyone knows what to do? Or do I just need to stop working and wait for the

I just built a new computer with an Intel i9 14900k processor, Z790 motherboard, 64GB of DDR5 RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, full liquid cooling, etc. Everything benchtests well and the computer is extremely stable unless I am working with blurs in After Effects 2025. Any time I apply Camera Lens Blur or even regular motion blur to a layer, the computer just comletely turns off without warning. It ONLY happens when using specific blurs. Fast Blur seems to be fine, as well as gaussian blur. So far it's just camera lens blur and adding regular motion blur to a moving layer. Everything else on the computer, from games to Premiere, works totally fine. I turned off hardware acceleration. All drivers for the computer and related components have the latest updated drivers, etc. Is anyone else having this issue? It seems like there's something wrong with After Effects, but I'd happily take any advice. I do not have this issue on my Macbook Pro, only on my Windows PC. Than

Steps to reproduce:    1. I opened a project I had been working on yesterday and today imported new footage.Result: After the footage imported, I began seeing the spinning beach ball any time I clicked on any menu. This freezing up lasts about a minute or two... Very disruptive. I had to force quit multiple times. Cleared my prefrences and cache... Still having the same issue.Expected: I expect to be able to click on a menu without it freezing up.  System info    Application: After Effects v25.0.1.2    OS: macOS v14.7.1, RAM: 64.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10

I created an intro for a client, I used this intro yesterday and did not have this issue. Its basically a template I created and I can change the videos in the template when needed. After export a strange vertical transparent white line appears down my video. I have attatched pictures so you can see what I mean. 

I'm trying to set up a script that "If" a file is selected, then do something on it, if not, I'd like to throw an error to do something else.I'm setting up the variable Selected Duration that polls the duration of a selected item (for the A side of the logic), but if nothing is selected, it throws an error.There is an alert that comes up in the library tab and in the console "execution result:"please select exactly one project item in the project panel (line 1)"". I just want to do something actionable based on this result to fix it since users might not see either of these alerts. Problem is, I can't seem to find check if something is selected or not. Maybe I'm going about this all wrong by testing the duration of a selection, but I can't figure a way to test if something is selected or not. Any recommendations on how to solve this would be, as always, appreciated.

@DaciaSaenz  I've an issue with large distances/scales, which is often the case in Google Earth Studio. Depending on the render engines, even shape layers don’t display, and for 3D object models, I have to disable collapse transformations, then they only appear in the Classic 3D and Cinema 4D engines     Using reasonable distances/scales: Best renderer -> Advanced 3D             Using large distances/scales: Best renderer -> Cinema 4D         * For large distances/scales, I have to disable collapse transformations on the 3D object, which I don’t need to do for reasonable distances/scales.

Every time I go to launch After Effects on my MacBook Pro, it will not stay open for longer than a second and immediately closes without any crash or error notifications. I have tried many different things like uninstalling and reinstalling, launching in safe mode, resetting preferences, restarting the laptop, etc. Nothing seems to fix the problem. I have no plugins installed and have fully updated my Mac. Any suggestions would be really appreciated as I am in an After Effects class and need to get homework done, but cannot continue without fixing this issue.