After Effects

Hello, I've been expieriencing a lot of bugs and errors especially connected to low memory warnings and the disability to preview my work even if its only raw audio footage on 23.4 (tried to downgrade onto nearly every other version but it did not help). A lot of friends told me that older AE versions (2021,2020) work better in that case. I've tried to downgrade but the only options I get on creative cloud are all version until 22.0. So here's my question: Is it still possible to downgrade onto 2021 After Effects versions? I'd be helpful for any kind of help.

Working on some tests recently-- trying to open a dialog box in Global Setup for the user to enter a value, and then store said value. The box opens, but each time it defaults to "Dialog was Cancelled," without having the opportunity to enter any values. I'm not sure if this is an issue with the dialog code, or perhaps theres some caveat to doing this in global setup. Any suggestions would be appreciated! This is the code I'm using for the rough test;// Dialog procedure function INT_PTR CALLBACK NumberDialogProc(HWND hDlg, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { static int* pNumber; switch (message) { case WM_INITDIALOG: pNumber = (int*)lParam; return (INT_PTR)TRUE; case WM_COMMAND: if (LOWORD(wParam) == IDOK) { BOOL success; int number = GetDlgItemInt(hDlg, 1001, &success, TRUE); if (success) { *pNumber = number; EndDialog(hDlg, IDOK); } else { MessageBoxA(hDlg, "Please enter a valid number.", "Error", MB_OK | MB

Is there any way I can parent or link similar effects together such that I don't have to manually change every layer's effect everytime I have a change? Thanks for the help!

I want to contain this foam effect so that it stays within the frame. I will be using this comp in another one in several places so that the foam looks a single molecule. So when it drifts out of frame, it cuts it off in the other comp. Is there a way to make it stay in frame?  

Hi I am trying to turn this PNG to a spinning 3d logo. I have trouble when I go to auto-trace it. The holes in the B are not there they are part of the logo. I want it to be able to see through. Any help would be awesome. 

So when I Open Recent and get file... make changes... save... it doesn't save in the folder it exists in - but saves in the last project folder I was in beforehand. So many times I save a file and can't find it all because it saves to the last folder I was in, not the folder Open Recent pulls it from. So annoying PLEASE FIX!!! 

Since 23.6 I'm getting multiple crashes per day, on different projects. 16 inch 2019, 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7Ventura These are super ugly crashes and they're ruining my deadlines.

I am currently working on a door opening animation.  To do this, I created three layers: the front door, the back door and the edge. I created a vectorlayer for the edge and then transformed all three layers into 3D layers. Afterwards I connected the edge and the back layer to the front. Then I animated the transformation keyframing the y-rotation on the front layer and started animating the edge using path keyframes. This works perfectly fine. But as soon as I preview my animation in the parent composition the path gets distorted and looks differently from what I see in the original composition. The problem gets even worse when changing to the top composition. On the composition layers are no other transformations or effects which could affect the preview of the animation. I already tried turning the 3d layer on the parent composition on and off but it doesn't seem to solve the problem. As a 3d-renderer I'm using the 3d-classic renderer in all compositions. Does anyone

Hey, I'm using CC 2017. Just starting to learn Ae and no matter what I try I cannot get the text from an Illustrator design into Ae as something editable. I've followed all the common instructions, I have: -Separated the nested elements into their own layers (in Illustrator)  -Exported this as a .psd in RGB with Text Editability preservedWhen I import it into After Effects, it comes in as one psd file, not a compisition, and with no layers to reveal. If I select the file and click "layers", the "Convert to Editable Text" function does not appear. Not even greyed out. Help.Thanks for any advice.

Hi Everybody, I have a situation where I want to scale a rounded rectangle (round blob) from one end. However, the shape layer only wants toscale from center, and I can't use stanard scaling because it make the blob all falt and wonky.  Is there some kind of fix or expression to lock the shape layer to one side while scaling as the shape path only? I've tried moving the anchor point and it just resets every time. I've also tried to conert the shape into a bezier path...same thing. 

Hello!I was given a project (self contained on a single hard drive with all assets) that was ready to be used. Another designer created comps and I'm just to fill in names of lower thirds, etc. When I opened the project it said that there was 80 expression errors. I went to one and discovered that there was two ffx files that were included in the hard drive that I needed to install on my copy of AE 42.4.1 (Build 2). I put them in my presets folder and refreshed the Effects & Presets list. Do I need to "relink" the ffx files manually to each expression that is used? I tried retyping the expression as the designer had it to no avail. Any thought on how to have the expression use the ffx files that are now in my presets folder?  

I tried AE 2024 on 3 separate macs, and this plugin still has the same issue. "timed out obtaining dynamiclink server connection".  Or just gets stuck on initialising. Tried closing other processes , all the workarounds suggested here. Would not work. I got it to track in AE 2022. Initialised in 5 secs. I think its a bug in AE2023/24

Hi, I'm having this error message from media encoder when I'm working on AfterEffects (17.0.1) and it is coming up enough to make animating almost undoable at this point.I know this has been raised before many times and Adobe seem rather keen on ignoring it but if anyone can direct me to or give any top tips on how to avoid this i'd appreciate it.Sometimes I can pin down the exact layer or effect that is causing the error from the timecode in the error message but the other day I spent almost an hour workiing on it and still couldn't work out the source.I have tried all 3 of the renderer settings (software only etc.) within Media Encoder and for me it doesn't make any difference.My mac specs, the error message, my render settings and ater effects settings are belowThanks!

When im downloading the mbl plugin it keeps on showing -> Installation Failed The following error occured during installation: Unknown exception is there any fix to that?

Every time I use AE, the Transfer Controsls pane is always too small, so that the Mode and Track Matte drop down menus are not fully legible. When I drag the divider right to expand it, it suddenly snaps to its minimum size. From there I can continue to drag the divider right or left to make the Transfer Controls pane larger or smaller, but I can no longer drag it left past its minimum size to where it its too small to be legible as it was intitially. I've included a screen recording to illustrate the issue I'm experiencing:https://vimeo.com/857931461 

So I have yet another issue with AE. This time, when I go to purge memory and disc cache, AE is NOT releasing the RAM. I trying to purge, then re-preview and it only previews acouple of frames. I check memory stats and its showing 56gb of RAM being utilized. When I shut the software down and relaunch, the ram is freed. But this happens every couple of minutues making it impossible for me to animate. I am only building a basic particle animation with trapcode form, it isnt anything overly complex. My computer is a new Dell XPS15 with a i913900H 64gb of RAM and a RTX 4070

Olá pessoal,estou com um problema com a versão 23 do after,a curva que era posssivel fazer curva na animação do puppet,agora não aparece mais a curva  

Please can Adobe fix the shortcut for Fit to View on Mac. I've been using Windows and AE for many years and am making a shift to Mac. This problem doesn't exist on Windows.It doesn't matter which keyboard shortcut I use, the function doesn't work.

 Hi ever since I updated to the latest update my after effects have been really slow. Any action I do do like simple ones like nudging text going to one comp to another it always go to the circle of death loading. I keep getting the zero denominator error as well. I have restarted, reinstalled, purge media cache and even work at quarter the resolution. hope you can help it was just with the recent update and haven't come across this issue before. One of my colleagues is having the same problem he said that ae is using too much memory. 

I've been having problems with this for months if not years by now.Audio would often playback correctly the second time around I'd play it back but now that I got a new computer it is even worse.Audio is offset somehow and will correct or just continue to play back wrong after "correcting" or deciding to un-correct after a second or so.I know the audio says "sounds good, right" but I will hear "sounds good" or "sounds goht".It makes it kinda hard to synchronise animation with the audio. Actually it makes it kinda impossible.I'll attach an image with the recorded audio from a screen capture in red. You will see that they obviously do not match.  

I'm running the latest version of AE and it is hugely frustrating. Here's an example of what I mean.I'm working on an animation using Joysticks and Sliders, Duik. It's a fairly heavy project but manageable and I have a very good PC running it. I'm currently lip-syncing and if I move or add a VO (Audio-only) layer the whole thing has to RAM preview over and over and over with every little adjustment. I have made hundreds of videos like this and have never experienced this before. Usually, you are free to make changes to comps within the master comp and only the comp you have altered (visually) would need to re-ram preview (obviously) but the rest of the master comp would keep the ram-previewed comps for playback. What is going on? The amount of extra time I have to wait is unacceptable. Is this a deliberate change or yet another bug? If it's deliberate, would you mind explaining the thinking behind this? nonsense?

Hi Everybody, I'm interested in doing a color wavey lines effect like the image attached. However, for this I can't afford to purchase something like Volna for the project and really need the effect options to be native. Does anybody know of any tutorial or methods natively to approach something like this? 

Latest version (v22.6) on Windows 10 (OS build 19044.2006) is suddenly showing the attached error message when I try and import an AEP into the current AEP. Those AEPs were all created in the same AE installation on the same computer, and open fine in AE on their own. Only on import do they cause issues.  The import does go ahead, but then throws out the positioning on layers in other previously imported (and previously fine) AEPs/Compositions.For example a previous import of a character (made up of arm layer, leg layer, etc) rowing in a boat, those animated layers now appear spread out in the wrong positions in the composition. No idea why, have had to roll back to previous AE installation which seemto work.  

I have had this issue randomly, before, but intermittently in the past, and a software restart seemed to resolve it. I figured it was one of my plug-ins acting up, and that I would address it during some downtime in the next few months. Today it has reared its ugly head in two different massive projects. and now carries over into even new ones. When I go to enter characters of any kind in the timeline— a layer name, a value, an expression, anything— after a random amount of time between .5 and 2 seconds, the program will behave as if I have clicked off of the input, preventing me from making further changes. It's completely debilitating. I have tried disconnecting from my peripherals and trying other units. I have also reinstalled After Effects, removed every plug-in and script, and started new projects in safe mode. STILL the issue persists. I have tried everything. It won't stop doing it. I cannot find the issue in any other piece of software, including other Adobe software

Hi guys dont know if you could help, ive tried following instructions regarding resetting after effects preferences. But none of it works. It still crashes whenever i freeze the roto-scope and displays and error message: (please view attachment )