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Hi, yes this has been asked before. It's the kind of thing you only notice at 3am when you're doing the most boring predictable work in existence. Oh that fundamental, basic, most boring feature of being able to export your video in a standard high quality, low file size format?   No, you can't do that anymore. You need a separate program. You need a separate piece of software to export a movie from a program whose sole purpose is to create and export movies.   Please, for the love of god, let us export h264 again from After Effects. You clearly have no concept of how buggy and bloaty media encoder is, and how overkill it is just to export a h264 movie file. At LEAST support this file format - the most popular format in existence today.   It worries me that I am even writing this. Did someone accidentally format the repo?   [Title edited by Mod.]

Sometimes you want to rename your master comp, and that comp probably has your master controllers for linked expressions from other comps.  Sometimes, After Effects hits you with a bunch of errors when you rename the comp, and then you have to go and repair each expression (you can use the script find and replace in expressions to fix).  The faster solve is just to use AE Global Renamer to rename your master comp - it will work and keep your expressions intact.  I'm posting this as a little tip for posterity. 

I've looked at and read alot of info on how to copy and paste a paint stroke.  But I'm still having trouble knowing which switch to have on or off and most the info I studied doesn't give a lot of detail on how to go about it.Can anyone help please? 

Hello everyone, does the AE plugin SDK have an API that can get the value of the effect plugin parameter set before the project is closed when the project is reopened next time?

In my continuing quest to script a template, I've got a variable start frame from the client's lineup sheet. (This shot starts on 1001, this shot starts on 1097, etc.) So I've been trying various ways of setting the Comp's Start Frame via script. My template is set to 1000. ...but I'd like to change it to (in this example) 1016 or some other number.For the life of me, I can not find it in the set attributes block of Ae Comp (work area start, display start frame, display start time, work area start), or Ae Project Items (time). To paraphrase C-3PO on the Death Star, "Where could it be?" 

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 !