After Effects

Almost every second time when I am trying to select an output folder for my render, After Effects suddenly freezes and then crashes. I have absolutely no idea what may be causing this bug, but now I have to remember to save my project every single time I use the built-in file browser in case it freezes again, which happens almost on a regular basis. This is seriously frustrating.

Ive been trying to do the "Isolate elements with the Roto Brush" tutorial. When ever I get to the part where I've used the roto brush, anything else I click on immediately leads to AE crashing. I'm currently using the latest M1 MacBook Pro 13inch computer and everything(Adobe software included) all seems to be up to date.I'm not sure what to do?

Hello, I'm in the process of creating travel maps using Adobe After Effects. I have now had to extend my composition from one minute to two minutes and have therefore also manually extended the various composition elements. Everything worked fine, only the water layer disappears after one minute, the rest of the map stays the same. Does anyone have any idea how I can make sure that ALL layers get extended? I have no clue why just the one layer disappears...

I don't understand how to make blocks that are 2 levels below the main composition play an animation when they cross the middle of the top composition?I tried expression writing from the top composition to get low blocks coordinates, and from the lowest block to get its position[0] in the composition of the top level - nothing works!Can anyone help, at least with advice or direction?Sample project included.

Hi!I have a variable for example 'POS'.And there is a composition 'ONE', where on a layer is placed a composition 'TWO' with some layers inside and an animation on its timeline.I need that as long as the POS variable is less than 1000, the animation in TWO is paused at 1m frames.If POS is more than 1000, then the animation in TWO starts from the first frame until the end.Tried 'Time remap' on comp "TWO" with '<1000'  - 0; and  with '>=1000' - value;  - doesn`t work correctly, `cose TWO starts playing not from 1st frame.

My after effects was working perfectly fine 2 days ago but now when I try to start the application It shows this error: Did I accidentally delete something or do I have to update it?

Every time run AE for the first time in the day, it asks me to log in. Sometimes later in the day.Once I do, it says "too many computers connected" and shows me this PC logged twice.I disconnect one false PC, now I can move forward... but no! Here comes another pop up: "we can't reach Adobe servers" - How is this possible? Then how did you know that my pc was logged twice on the first place? What it was logged to? This all happens with CC logged flawlessly from the beginning. It's driving me crazy...Can you help me please?Also, how it's possible that there is no "keep me logged" checkbox?

when scrolling through fonts in after effects 2024 ver. 24.3.0 on my mac m3 pro Version 14.1 (23B2073)the program will immedeatly crash when certian apple fonts are selected like apple braile. I have tried just deleting these fonts but it seems that there is just no option to. If anyone has also had this problem and found a workaround that would be very helpfull

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I'm using After Effects CC2018 for the current project. I'm trying to use "scale composition" (from the scripts menu) on a composition because I've replaced footage that was 1080p with 2160p footage. I've scaled other compositions and I'm trying to scale a comp that has certain effect layers in it. I have a composition that I'm trying to scale that is 2880x2880 pixels (1:1 aspect ratio).When I use the "scale comp" script to try to double the width and height (so it's 5760x5760and all the layers are scaled appropriately) it doesn't work properly. Is there a limit where the max it can scale to is around 3840x2160? Can it be worked around? Is it the same in later versions of AE? edit: For some reason it's started working correctly and starts correctly scaling it to 5760x5760. I tried exiting the program and doing it on a small test comp and then the actual project again and it worked. Maybe the exiting the program and restarting it fixed any issue it had - at least tem

I've been encountering this issue with After Effects CC 2023 wherein most of the time, whenever I try to click on a Preset or a Plugin from the 'Effects and Presets' bar, it won't click. It doesn't even show the white color indication that I'm hovering over it. This occurs  when I open After Effects and when I'm in the middle of editing. Even after clearing my Cache, reinstalling my after effects and plugins, and restarting it, it still happens. Never had this problem with After Effects CC 2020. The only way for me to add a plugin is by clicking on the layer.

I have not been able to find a fix for this anywhere and have been struggling with this for months. The last option i have at this point is to redownload windows because nothing else has worked.I will import a clip, work on it for a bit and it will randomly get "corrupted" and will have a sort of green/pink data mosh effect that i will try and attach a image or video of below. When this happens i can rarely get it off of the video therefore completely ruining my composition. I have noticed that if i add frame blending on a clip it recreates this bug every single time.Im in desperate need of help for this issue. Ive deleted and reinsalled my AE and my media encoder. I have disabled hardware acceleration and cleared my cashe multiple times still to no avail. Like i said the only thing i have left is reinstalling windows and having a fresh computer. I will attach my PC specs below. 6900xt Red DevilIntel Core i5 - 12th gen 32g DDR5 Ramz690 Alienware MBWin 10 AE 24.3

AE 23.1.0 (Build 83) has a missing footage bug on MacOS Ventura 13.1. Problem appeared after upgrading to Ventura and reinstalling everything. All project files are stored in Dropbox which now has a problem of it's own - every necessary file has to be made as Available-offline. After making most of project files available offline, some footage was still missing and After Effects greeted me with 16 pairs of error messages saying "file 'somefile.mp4' cannot be imported – this "Moov" file is damaged or unsupported" and "The source compression type is not supported (86::1)"  - nothing new - I have had this dropbox related issue on MacOS 12 - except there I could just search in finder for missing file, make it Available-offline, go back to AE, double click on missing footage item, select just synced footage and everything was fine (after I did it again and again with every missing file). Now it doesn't work. Now I search in finder for missing footage, make it Available-O

Hi there,Im trying to use the "align video to data" feature in AE that is documented in "Data driven animation".Unfortunatelly the documentation is not enough to build a working mgjson file for this case.I found an CSV to mgjson file converter but that seems to be for dynamic sensoric data only and not for static timecode per layer data.In the Sensoric Management SDK documentation its mentioned how someone would build such an mgjson file but Im no programmer so Im a bit overwhelmed by all that information.Does anyone ever succesfully used the "align video to data" feature or created an mgjson for static data?Would save me a lot of time as I need to set hundreds of layers on specific timecodes and also put keyframes on them...

I'm a bit lost here I've tried uninstalling, updating drivers deleting cached data in my user profile but After Effect keeps crashing every so often on launch.  I've enabled logging but I've noticed it is only generating the log file when the application launches.Log file created: 04/09/24 09:50:05-------------------------------------Ticks = 16 <2192> <AppVers> <5> App Version = 24.2.1x2 releaseTicks = 16 <2192> <AppDirs> <5> App Dir = C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2024\Support FilesTicks = 16 <2192> <AppDirs> <5> Executable Dir = C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2024\Support FilesTicks = 16 <2192> <AppDirs> <5> Resources Dir = C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2024\Support FilesTicks = 16 <2192> <AppDirs> <5> Package Dir = C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2024\Support FilesTicks = 16 <2192> <AppDirs> <5> Plugin Dir = C:\Program

Hello,  recently I had to split a project of 20 comps into 20 smaller reduced projects.So for every comp, I selected the desired comp (in the project panel), went in "File", "Dependencies", "Collect Files" then I ticked "Selected Comps" and "Reduce Project".The issue I encountered is that every time I used the "Collect Files" feature, an additional composition would appear in the resulting file. This extra composition, along with all its associated footage, was not selected prior to initiating the collection process. Opening them up afterward and removing the extra composition and footage was quite bothersome. I attempted to resolve the issue by closing and reopening After Effects, hoping it would rectify the problem, but unfortunately, the same issue persisted. It seems to be a bug without a doubt.

Good day!I have this scene, the camera moves slightly (no tripod) and there's a little panning when another character enters the room. I'd like to add a poster on the wall (which is quite white with no reference points) or above the heather, if it's easier. And the poster should move accordingly to the camera. I can't seem to use the camera track (not enough points, even with detailed analysis checked). I also can't really stabilize the scene because there is a bit of 3D distortion and no two clear points.Is there any other alternative, besides reshooting the scene? I attach the video, just in case.Thanks a lot 

When I was just exporting a project from After Effects, halfway through, it told me it got an error, something involved with the tint effect (I didn't read the error properly!); it stopped exporting and told me to save the project as a new file before it shuts down automatically.  Now, when I open up the new save file, every tint effect I used in my project says it's "missing", and it no longer applies its effect. Even when i try to import another tint effect into the effects controls, it still comes up as missing and wont work. And in the effects and presets menu, the effect is under a new folder "Missing" Please Help!!  

I have to build several small lottie animations (20) which I arranged in folders in one big file. I'm working on this file since weeks. When I went back to check other animations, I realized that the animations were gone, there were no files in the comps anymore. I did not forget to save or another mistake as there are several comps missing layers & animations.  I deleted disk cache (although my machine has 36GB RAM) I also installed the latest version 24.3.0. Is there maybe a setting which isn't correct. Is there a bug I'm not aware of? Any help / suggestion is welcome, thanks.

I’m trying to create a MOGRT with some unique functionality I haven’t seen anywhere else online. Our clients use two weights of font on their Video Captions (which currently they type manually) in order to highlight specific words within the text. So for example, they might like to style: “The Quick Brown Fox, jumps over the lazy dogs”as“The Quick Brown Fox, jumps over the Lazy Dogs“ The solution i’m currently using is a bit of a workaround, based on Jarle Leirpoll’s example in making Mogrts ebook. string = thisComp.layer("Highlighted Words").text.sourceText.split("+");result = 0;for (i = 0; i < string.length; i++){if (textIndex == parseInt(string[i],10)){result = 100;break;}}result Using this running through an expression selector in the Amount Setting, I can successfully tie this to a stroke width animator to give the characters a bit of extra thickness based on a simple code in a separate hidden text layer i.e 1+3+4+5+9+10 Applies the effect to

Hello!I've imported a logo from Illustrator that contains some shapes and text.When I drag the .eps or the .ai into my After Effects timeline, it looks fine.When I attempt to convert to shape from vector, the text in the logo disappears. The Illustrator file is all isolated layers and no groups. The text layers are even at the top.Thoughts?  

So I decided to try the "real" C4D from Maxon for its 14-day trial, but I decided to just stick with what I have, so I uninstalled the C4D software. Only problem now is AE2024 is complaining that I have to install C4D to use the renderer, and it says that to do that I have to go through the Creative Cloud app (and so on). Trouble is, when I click "Get Add-Ons" from the AE hamburger menu in the Creative Cloud app, C4D already shows "added," and I can't (re-)install it. I've already tried uninstalling and then reinstalling AE. What do I need to do to fix this?

Hi,I've been working a few hours on this with no luck, maybe anyone here can help:I have an issue on Mac with a script where I want to transcode some files using ffmpeg.Here's what's going on:var cmd = pathToFFMpegBin + '/ffmpeg -h';var output = system.callSystem(cmd);alert(output);This works well, the command is executed and the alert shows the help for ffmpegBut with the full command line to encode a file, like:var cmd = pathToFFMpegBin + "/ffmpeg -h -i " + inputFilePath + " -c pcm_f32le " + outputFilePath;var output = system.callSystem(cmd);alert(output);After Effects freezes (with the mouse cursor being the waiting cursor) like it's stuck in an endless loopThe alert is not shown, the script is stuck at the callSystem line.BUT: the encoding does work, the new file is created and working...- The same command works well in a terminal or as a bash script.- The script works well in Windows- If I provide a invalid path to the input file or the output file, it works as expected (the alert

"Cup-Ball" file link has been broken. How to delink it? because Replace Footage is grayed out. 

If I change the Left align text to Center text, it changes the apparent position of the text.Is there any way to change the Paragraph without changing the apparent position?