After Effects

Hello all! For about the past month or so I've been running into this error when rendering using the native AE render queue. The error doesn't seem to stop the render from happening, the files themselves are all done and useable but it pops up at the end of every render now and I'm not sure what to do about it to 'resolve' it even if it's not actively preventing anything right now. Here's how it looks:it's always this 'could not open the file' and then referencing something in the AECache. Again, it doesn't stop the render or anything, but I'd like to know what's causing this error to occur in the first place as it didn't used to do so. Thanks a bunch!

I'm rendering an After Effects comp in 2024 Encoder and it's stuck at the very end. It says it has 00:00:05 left but it won't move from there. It's been like this for hours now. The .aac and .m4v files are in the folder but aren't being combined. Is this a known issue? How do I get it to stop? As a side note, can we get rid of forcing us to use the encoder and go back to just rendering in AE? It's annoying and takes forever to load AE projects. 

Hi, I can't add or reduce the selection area. Even using the Refine Edge tool. It works at first... I am surprised no one else has had this problem...  The situation - I am trying to rotoscope a hand as it passes over a screen. Halfway through some of the  fingers disappear. I don't want this, so I try to extend the mask. This shows up as I did do something... it makes a foreground selection but this doesn't effect anything. It doesn't do anything. Refine Edge helped a little but it is the same problem after the initial frames. I can't refiine anything. This isn't like the fingers are motion blur... They aren't moving fast. I just can't correct the selection.  I am going to try this with a previous version but I already did all the rest of the work on the project so I will have to redo it all in a different version? Ugh.  

Hi,I have noticed this weird behaviour of After Effects. I am not sure if it's a bug but it is certainly a lack of control and accuracy.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_HjZgTG7N8 As you can see in the video link above my goal is to use Track Matte inverted (it does the same using setMatte) on a layer above pointing to the layer below and making the masking layer visible so that the layer below looks to be above. Then I use the blending mode Alpha Add on the two layers to remove that visible edge. form After Effects User Guide:Alpha Add Composites layers normally but adds complementary alpha channels to create a seamless area of transparency. Useful for removing visible edges from two alpha channels that are inverted relative to each other or from the alpha channel edges of two touching layers that are being animated. The weird thing is that it works just there is nothing under those layers.The funny thing is if the layers with Alpha Add are pr

Hi everyone!I have a couple of Nulls inside Comp 2 and this comp is a precomp inside Comp 1.  I need to create a script that checks if there is an effect in  the selected Null then add the same effect to Comp 2.  This is only for Checkboxes and Sliders, nothing major.  I think one of the reasons this is not working is because I'm using the activeItem. The script needs to look for a specific comp name because my projects have many layers and sorting by items indexes might not always work.   I feel that adding the expressions to link both parameters later would be very simple once I understand how the heck to access Comp 2 from within it.  This is what I have so far:var myComp; for (var i = 1; i <= app.project.numItems; i ++) { if ((app.project.item(i) instanceof CompItem) && (app.project.item(i).name === 'Comp 2')) { myComp = app.project.item(i); break; } } var baseComp = myComp.layer("Comp 2"); v

Months ago, I encountered an issue that wasn't resolved, and I had to buy a new computer, only to face the same problem again. What frustrated me the most was that despite talking to seven support team members, having them connect live to my computer, we couldn't find a solution. Their response was consistently to "reinstall your operating system" and then close the case. Since then, three updates have been released, and yet the problem persists. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe software, tried using After Effects without any plugins or additional software, reinstalled my operating system, loaded all drivers from scratch, and had only After Effects on my computer when testing, but the issue remains.The problem I'm encountering is that After Effects crashes without any reason when I start working on any large project. This error also occurs with Media Encoder.I've sent error reports multiple times with my registered license, but I haven't received any response. I believe the butto

I may have found something. I was working on a simple comp using psd, ai, video and text. AE was dragging very badly, hard to work on. I narrowed it down to the text layer. Then turned off the Faux Bold option in the Character panel, then AE worked just fine. Apple M2 Max Macbook Pro96GB MemorySonoma 14.1.2After Effects 24.1.0

Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro are all having slow performance on my new M2 Ultra Mac Studio with 64GB of RAM. Illustrator and After Effects are especially bad. Usually takes a half a second to five seconds for any inputs to register in Illustrator. These apps all still work perfectly fine on our older M1 Mac Studio. They're basically useless on the new machine. Already tried removing old preferences, reinstalling all of the Adobe apps, and using the older 2023 versions. All have the same problem. No other issues with the computer though, just issues with Adobe.

I rotoscoped a clip and in the precomp and on export I get a blank black screen.  it's a full hd 25 fps dynamic link video. from the start I had an issue with rotoscoping, got the message that the comp didn't match the clip and I should make the comp 50 fps, eventhough clip and comp were both 25 fps. So I just set the comp to 50 fps to appease AE. Everything was fine the whole time, I exported multiple versions and it all worked, so I don't think that was the issue. Changing comp fps to 25 or 50 also doesn't fix the problem. I kept working on it and now that I'm done, suddenly the pre-comp, the project panel miniature and on export the clip is just black. Everything looks fine inside the roto comp.I have been having some memory issues, but now that I froze the roto, I don't. I've tried restarting ae and it doesn't help.  

I’m building an expression for a keyframe-less animation, but I need a specific easing curve. The basic linear, easeIn, and easeOut functions do not give me as much easing control as I need. Right now I’m using the linear function and pulling the easing properties from a Slider Control, however I would like to hardcode a specific ease into the expression, so that it runs without the need of the Slider.I need the easing to match the curve from the attachment. (I pulled both bezier handles as far to the left as I could.)I’ve tried many different options, but none have been able to replicate this curve exactly. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I've just bought After Effects, and now I get this when I try to download it. 

  And why do shapes that exit on the right appear on the left side of the rendering?1st image is comp in AE, 2nd is render. I expect to render the dark blue area, instead I get this.

Hey there. Was just going to show my AE intro class one of the basic expressions for the Lens Flare center to follow a 3D sun layer while a camera is pushing in. All of the many expressions I've ever used seem to send AE 24.2 and 24.3 into some weird state where the comp window won't draw and AE freezes up after a minute or two. This is happening both on the school's Mac Studio M1 on Monterey as well as my MacBook Pro M3 Max on Sonoma. This is one of the expressions that causes the lockup. thisComp.layer("sun").toComp([1000,1000])When I save this file back to previous versions of AE, it works fine in the older AE. Thanks for any help. Let me know if you need more info from me.

Whenever I try and move the eyedropper from the color range effect, it cancels itself. Does anyone know how to fix this? I cant find anything online.

This is a tricky one and I am stumped.I am working on a complex rig, and I need a null object to track the position of the last character of a text object as the text moves off screen, but I need to do this on hundreds of text lines. It's actually a flush-right text, so the longest character would be the first letter of the first word in this instance.Imagine a flush right text line reading: FUTURA EXTRA BOLD.  I need to track is 'F' in this case. PALATINO SANS. I need to track the 'P'Any thoughts on how this could be achieved?#Expressions #Help

Today I faced same problem. Can't attach the MOV file into composition. After Effects Error 86::1 The source compression type is not supported. [[SOLUTION]]Just change the extension of the file .mov to .avi same, change any extension to another. MAGIC!!Enjoy! 

I am going crazy. I have a simple vector rectangle as an .ai file.  It is literally just a orange rectangle outline, this is a proof of concept as my actual image is a complex shape outline. I imported this simple rectangle outline into AE. It looks fine. I am trying to trace path animate it. When I convert it to a shape layer, all I get is a gray box. I am at a loss for what to do. Am I going to seriously have to waste a huge amount of time and recreate every asset I made for this in after effects itself so it is usable? How is this an efficient workflow??

Hello!Im using AE 2024 version. I can't simultaneously use a plugin on two different computers. I have two computers, one at work and one at home.Recently, I bought a Mocha Pro plugin. But I can't use them, even though when I use it on one machine, the other one stops using it.Is there a way I can use them alternately without having to deactivate from one machine?Thank you.     

I was working with raw photo files from my sony camera normally and suddenly it stopped responding.Import -> the progress bar stays 0% -> program not respondingTried, restarting my PC, delete caches, reinstalling after effects, deleting common files, app/local files, everything did not work. HELP

Avoid updating app whenever possible. If you do be prepared for files not opening, dynamic links to .aep in Premiere breaking and as a result huge delays in getting projects done. Anything with Cineware being used can result in files you can no longer open unless you stay in whatever version you created them in. Adobe will tempt you with new features. Run away and only update if there is no other choice. Having said all that when AE and Premiere work they are great. 😛  Updating generally means things will break. 

Bonjour tout le monde ! Depuis hier je me retrouve confronté à un problème peu pratique, suite à un formatage de mon PC pour passer sur windows 11 proprement et donc à une réinstallation de la suite creative cloud. En voulant réinstaller mes différents plugins par la suite, j'ai remarqué une errreur avec Aeviewer, que j'utilise beaucoup (CF capture d'écran). En effet il m'affiche un message d'erreur comme quoi le fichier "fsLib" ne charge pas et qu'il me faut réinstaller AE ... Ce que j'ai fait plusieurs fois au cas ou mais rien n'y fait ! Idem pour Aeviewer que j'ai réinstallé plusieurs fois 😞  Avez-vous une idée d'ou peut venir ce problème ?  Merci d'avance !

Hi everyone, I tried to render a very simple animation, but Bodymovin completely disorganized the whole sequence.Here is what I want to render: Animation in mp4Here is Bodymovin’s result: https://app.lottiefiles.com/animation/4f1a01a6-fa18-4be6-aecf-14ded647191f The logo didn't sequently animate letters but instead all at one (I used Stroke in After Effect to reveal my logo, I did check the Sequently Box applied on all masks), the bottom text’s placement is also messed up. The result is consistent by exporting in mp4 or gif, but JS has completely different result. Please let me know if there is a way to fix this issue. I also tried to render only the vector composition but the order still got messed up.  Thank you

So i downloaded a movie from Mega, then i imported it to after effects to edit it. When i previewed the movie clip in AE, turns out there was just the background noise (music, sound effects, etc) but no speaking noises from the characters. I thought this has something to do with the original movie from the Mega i downloaded. So i went to Mega to preview the actual movie, and the sound audio was perfect!! there was even the characters audio and everything. Pls help idk what to do!!!!!! Why is it that theres only the bg noises in AE?

Complete novice here.I have a short 7sec clip that I'm trying to use the 3D Camera Tracker on. It's a clip downloaded directly from an online AE class specifically for practicing 3D Camera Tracking, so it should work - the teacher uses it in the class. When I click track camera, it analyzes and solves the camera. No errors show up. But no track points appear either. When I switch 'Show Track Points' from 3D Solved to 2D Source, then they show up. But when I switch back, nothing. Show Layer Controls is enabled. The Fx symbol is on in the little box by the effect name. I tried switching project settings from Mercury Software Only to Mercury GPU Acceleration (Metal) and back. Nothing. I'm using a 2020 Macbook Pro with:1.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 Processor16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 MemoryIntel Iris Plus Graphics 645 1536 MB Graphics I've searched on all the relevant threads already posted on here and nothing seems to work. Screenshot attached below.

Issue - Sometimes I will be in the middle of moving a layer along the timeline when After Effects decides to auto save. If I am still holding/dragging the layer when the autosave occurs, After Effects will crash. Adobe After Effects version number - 23.3.0Operating system - MacOS Ventura 13.5Steps to reproduce - Tough to reproduce without being able to trigger an autosave, but supposing you can, simply drag a layer in the timeline when the autosave occurs.Expected result - After Effects should not autosave while the layer is being moved so it won't crash.Actual result -  Crash