After Effects

Old project opened in new 2024.4 AE. Comments in expressions show up as error. Attached is the error notice. I have AE open in safe mode, error still pops up, but does crash AE when not in safe mode.  

I'm not sure if this is an existing issue or if it's not an Adobe issue and is an Windows problem, but since upgrading to 24.3 I've noticed an intermittent audio problem.  When I'm in After Effects or Audition and switch windows to my browser or other application which plays audio, on return I lose all audio playback in the Adobe software.  It also happens if the monitor is powered off, then turned back on.  So far the only solution is to unplug my 3.5mm audio jack and plug it back in.  Restarting AE also works sometimes.   I'm on Windows 11 (build 22635.3566) I have a Realtek card and an LG monitor with Nvidia High Def audio   Before this issue I could switch windows, watch part of a video on YouTube, switch back etc... Now when it happens I cannot preview either with audio or not.

Hi, when I try to preview my project and watch back what I've edited the preview is extremely laggy and choppy. And oddly enough when I export my project the video that was exported is also extremely laggy and looks just like the preview. I've never seen this before and can't find a way to fix it. I'd love any suggestions, thanks!

Hi I thought I was real clever when I did this. LOL. The problem is, I can't get it to work. The idea was to put all the install keys and matchname couples into a map. That way i could quicly get the right install keys without having to loop through installed effects every time. Problem is, I keep getting the wrong install keys, which results in the effect added is the wrong effect.Can anybody see what I'm doing wrong? The classes looks like this:h:class InstallKeys { public: static std::map<A_char, A_long> keys; }; class AEGPTools { public: static PF_Err SetupInstallKeys(SPBasicSuite* sP); }; cpp:std::map<A_char, A_long> InstallKeys::keys; PF_Err AEGPTools::SetupInstallKeys(SPBasicSuite* sP) { PF_Err err = PF_Err_NONE; A_long numInstalledEffects; AEGP_InstalledEffectKey nextKey; AEGP_SuiteHandler suites(sP); ERR(suites.EffectSuite4()->AEGP_GetNumInstalledEffects(&numInstalledEffects)); ERR(suites.EffectSuite4()->AEGP_GetNextInst

I was using AE 24.1 for weeks with no problems, but when updating to 24.3, it started not opening, it always shows the message to start it up on safe mode, but even with this, e freezes either on initalizaing media core or smart mask. I went back to 24.1 and the same thing happens.

Bonjour, Je cherche de l'aide pour after effect 2024.J'ai une scène filmé (fixe) dans laquelle j'ai ajouté des éléments 3d qui se déplacent.Je souhaite projeter les ombres de ces objets sur les murs (réels) de ma scène.Pour cela j'ai créé des solides 3d plans que j'ai disposé comme mon mur et mon sol. J'ai effectué les réglages de mes lumières, de mes elements 3d et de mes plans.Voilà mon problème : j'ai bien mes ombres sur mes plans mais je voudrais rendre mes plans invisibles. Je n'arrive pas à les garder les ombres seules. Je suis tombé sur un tuto qui propose de 'accepter les ombre : seules' dans les options de surface du plan mais je n'ai pas l'option 'seules' Merci d'avance à quiconque pourra le venir en aide!

I'm starting to get a bit worried (After Affect seems to be corrupting my files ?) I have two old projects that I converted for AE2024. I did some cleaning and optimization. Then I did some assembly, and everything was fine. The project was running smoothly. I d'ont know if it's linked, but I've had all these crashes since I did a complete reinstallation of Windows. The first project started to crash, when I tried to open it.I quickly identified that the problem came from one Typeface. (Oddly enough, it worked well before) But even when I manage to open it, the project is unstable and crashes for no reason from time to time. The second project worked really well, I did some files and layers organisation, and since its last saving, it's impossible to open it. It keep crashing like the first one. I can't figure out where the problem is coming from and it's driving me crazy. Every time I save a project, it starts to crash afterwards and I can no longer open it.&nb

Desinstalei um plug-in de terceiros do after effects, porém o programa não abre mais, apenas mostra uma mensagem de erro e preferências, o programa inicia, mas não abre. Já reinstalei, mas nada resolvido.

 Hi! I'm trying to rotate a set of wings in 3d - it works on the back wing but not the front - I think this is because I've got moving parts in the front wing precomp, is there anyway to work around this and get the front wing to rotate in 3d too? Thanks.

this photo is how i look like and there is no top bar thing in the topthe top bar is not here im so stressed and mad because its just not here

I'm going through the archives of my department - from before I joined the company. I am trying to open and review AE projects from around 2014-2017 in AE version 24.4. When trying to do so, I get the error "After Effects warning. Unable to import file "{file path and name}" as project (bad format or not readable).” I've also tried importing the old projects into a newly created AE project with the same result.Is there any hope for these old projects, or are they gone forever?

Hi, I've been doing some work with Mocha lately, and the community has already helped me with my previous case, but now I'm doing a screen replacement that's not with a green screen. I watched some tutorials from Boris FX, but I'm not sure if there's something else I should be learning to deal with the case below. I've tracked a TV screen with the X spline tool and have manually adjusted the track. But then when I turned on the planar surface it goes way too off during the track. I went into the Adjust Track section and created points so I can adjust the deviations. The first time I tried to do this, I got to a moment when every adjust moved the points way too distant from the planar surface's corners, and after a certain point the track gets way too distorted and I don't know which point where to move so it can be corrected. It becomes impossible to adjust. You can see an example for this below: The second way I tried was to activate the Auto Step option in the ADj

Whenever I try to open the after effects, it get stuck at "initializing required components". I unnistalled and reinstaleed the program, removed plugins, removed temporary files and so on but it didn't solve the problem.

Bonjour, J'ai fais une composition avec 125 image jpg, durée 5s 25i/s Lorsque je veux exporter en vidéo H.264, soit en direct dans after, soit avec Adobe Media encoder, cela se met en échec au bout de quelques frames.64 Go de mémoire disponible, problème identifié sur MAC & PC 5700XT - 6900 XT ET NVIDIA A5500 (Windows 11)Mémoire et cache bien purgéAVec ou sans multiframes activésErreur en pièce jointe Avez-vous une solution rapide svp?

Hello I tried to add a new file a new png serie in my file then after paying it I have a window error "...507 ::12...I uninstalled After Effects and Media Encoder, I update my anti-virus, I disable my fire wall and vpn, I try to make a new composition with this png serie, but always the same error.What can I do ?   "

I'm not sure if I'm inadvertantly doing something wrong here or if the wiggle expression is broken in AE 24.3.0, but I used to add an expression like:wiggle(4, 0.05)to the rotation of a layer. It would rotate 4 degrees either way 0.05 times a second, giving me a nice, smooth, slow wiggle rotation.However, now anything under 1 second in the wiggle expression just makes it jiggle from positive zero to negative zero (whatever that is). And anything over a second is way too fast for a rotation wiggle, when I'm just trying to add some natural looking movement to something.Am I doing something wrong? Or is this expression broken now?

Hi Everyone,I need help to refine this expression of triggering animation with layer markers.I have animation of a text that starts with key 1 to key 2 and then this text transition to another text key 3 to key 4 and then text out key 5 to key 6.The 2 texts layers are pre composed, and my expression is applied into the Time remapping with these 6 keys.Basecaly, the expression works fine, just I'm getting expression error for this line if (time < T.marker.key(1).time)linear(time,inPoint.time,key(2).time,key(1).value,key(2).value)else Everytime, I move my timeline indecator before my marker.key(1). But the expression keeps working fine. This is my expression:T = thisLayer;if ((T.marker.numKeys > 1 ) && (numKeys > 5)){dIn = key(4).time - key(3).time;dTr = key(2).time - key(1).time;dOut = key(6).time - key(5).time;eIn = T.marker.key(1).time;eOut = T.marker.key(2).time;if (time < T.marker.key(1).time)linear(time,inPoint.time,key(2).time,key(1).value,key(2)

Hi, I'd like to know if opening an external After-Effects from any source is totally safe, even with "Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network" toggled on ? My question may seem to be stupid, is probably stupid, and I'm sorry in advance. I'm sure 90% that the answer is "it is safe", but I'd like to get precise facts to be 100% sure. From the scripts, it is possible to make network requests via the "Socket" class, if "Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network", plus it is possible to create/remove files & folders.  Is a single After Effects project able to make use of the Socket class or more generally, making network requests and filesystem operations ? Is a single After Effects project able to ask for a script to run, or installing by itself a script ? Sorry for such a question, Best regards. 

So I imported a graphic of a ramen cup from Illustrator into After Effects and the steam from the cup is being cut off for some reason. For the steam itself, I created in after effects. There should be no shapes or anything obstructing the steam.Does anyone know how to fix this problem???Also let me know it would be easier to include the file on the thread.

Hi. How to get current preview time with ExtendScript.I want to get the current time of the preview like the expression "time," not time of the Current Time Indicator. Thank you.

Sorry for asking question as a newbie. I wish to export the stuff from after effects and at last export it to Premiere for whole vlog editing, sound design and color grading. I know the best way is dynamic link, but I'm not able to use it since the Adobe Plan I've suscibe doesn't support.  So I want to know which format and codec is better during the process for high quality result and best for continue editing in Premiere Pro. My AE and Pr are both 2023. Thanks a lot~ 

Hey everyone,Does anyone have a solution for this? Well, the problem is with the importing the files and the rendered video. Imported files(psd and ai files) are somewhat saturated and darker in after effects than my psd/Ai files. Color management is turned off. When I turn it on and set it to srgb it seems accurate in the composition window but after the render the video is still dark and saturated. I tried turning on preserve rgb option in the color tab of Output Module Settings but the result is still the same, dark and saturated colors of the video similar to the file when the color management is turned of. In the attached video you can see the difference in the file when the color management is turned on and off. Satured dark colors : Color management set to noneDull colors ( same as file, accurate colors which I want) : Color management set to srgbDo you have any idea about how I can resolve this?Thanks a ton in advance.

I copy-pasted a path from Illustrator in After Effects's empty composition. After I deleted a text (it was also a path), only the one closed path started having properties I would be giving it. Those others aren't displaying at all. How do I change it?

Not sure if this is possible or not, but when sending a shot with GFX over to my colleague it would be good if they could have full access to the raw video file to colour grade without affecting any other layers such as text - is this possible in one export through dynamic link? (we work from seperate SSD's as oppossed to a server, if that changes anything)

Is there a way to resolve this or a workaround that would allow us to quick preview within adobe libraries, I have an extensive list of MP4 files that I would quickly need to see the first few seconds or even listen to the first few seconds before importing to my project.