After Effects

Hello! Goodnight. I'm trying to render in After Effects 2023 with the Lagarith LossLess 1.3.27 codec, and it shows this error. But when saving, I point to the average and render over it, the rendering works.  

See image below. Issue: Save new project in folder A. Save another new project in folder B. Go to use Open Recent of project in A. Make changes and Ctrl-Shift S to save under ammended name, and it save not where the file resides but where I last saved a file in folder B. This is nonsense! If I use Open Recent, then when saving WE SHOULD ALREADY BE IN THAT FOLDER WHERE OPEN RECENT FOUND IT!!. I lost work because of this BS. I made changes to a file Open Recent, Saved As a new file but didn't realize it went into a totally different folder of a project I worked on recently. That project was finished, packaged and archived, with the work folder deleted. SAME FOLDER THAT AE SAVED AS TO, and I didn't realize. It also save a back-up file in that other folder. PLEASE FIX THIS!!! In the screengrab above you can see what I mean.

Hey there, i am using the expression  x = thisComp.layer("Audio").effect("Both Channels")(1);linear(x, 20,40, 0, 5) the error i get is: "Error: effect named ´Both Channels´ is missing or does not exist. It may have been renamed, moved, deleted or the name may have been mistyped" any ideas what the problem could be? What could be the replacement?

Thinking this may be a long shot but hoping someone can help. I'm trying to reproduce an effect similar to the one in this video but not as complicated. I will only have 8 bars and none will have "counters" attached to them. My plan is to manually keyframe the X position of the bars (because I'd like a certain amount of control with how these look). I would like to have an expression that shifts the ranking so any bar with a higher X value than any other bar shifts up on the Y axis.I was able to do this but the bars were simply switching Y position rather than tweening from one Y position to another. The Y positions for each bar are yPos = [420, 507, 594, 681, 770, 857, 944, 1031].Thank you in advance for any help or insight you can provide

1.First I go to 3D Track in Video.2.Then I add Solid in 3D.3. I copy and past layer 3D.4. I add Stroke in 1 Layer 3D.5. Then happen like  striped, marking , scratch marks , a lot of little pixel .6. All of that annoy me and when I move it I want to make a 2 Line in 1 Layer solid but the Line is scratch marks.7. So I go to do a loop with add Solid in 3D everytime and when I render It take so long Time.8. In 1 minute video I add 3D Solid about 40 Layer the Time render Export is 2 Hour .*** at the first when i use After Effect like 5 mount ago I can Copy and paste Layer of solid and doesn't have scratch marks and I use only 1 solid 3D layer and copy paste is very easy and the render Export of time is shorter than this time .  #Adobe #scratchmarksinAEI have no Idea what to do next I hop people come to see my Topic Thankyou.  

I defined a basic wiggle code [wiggle (4,8)]  on the position of a 3d object (xyz). How do I determine that the y-axis will not pass a certain value that I set for it? thanks

i saw a plugin that would dynamically name a pre-comp, but couldn't handle more than one layer at a time. i need to group individual animated characters, which are on their own individual layer ...so i can have pre-comps of the words. i have way too many to handle and typing the name for each pre-comp would take forever.Can you recommend code or a plugin to do this?i eventually will be trying to use monkey layer or something match the words to markers.

Hey there,I want to link the scatter of a CC Ball Action to my Audio layer (Audio layer is named Audio as well) with this expression: x=thisComp, layer("Audio Amplitude"), effect("Both Channels")("Slider")linear(x, 20,40, 0, 5) I get this error: "Error: ReferenceError: layer is not defined" I guess it has something to do with the layer part of the expression but i cant really figure out what it is, any ideas? thanks a lot!

Hi there, hoping someone can help me with this. Whenever I try to open After Effects, I am prompted with the following pop-ups, before the application crashes." After Effects can't continue: sorry, After Effects has crashed. For After Effects Help and Support, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_support. If you still can't resolve the issue, please contact Adobe Technical Support (2). ( 0 :: 42 ) "System specs:After Effects version 24.5Windows 10CPU: 12th Gen intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700 (20 CPUs), 2.1GHzGPU: Nvidia Gefore RTX 3060Ram: 32GB3 Hard Drives - 1TB, 4TB, 500GB,250GB (500GB one used for media cache & has 417GB free space)I have tried updating to the latest version, back-dating to an earlier version, and a fresh re-install of After Effects, none have worked.If anyone has any ideas on how to solve this it would be greatly appreciated! Also let me know if more information is required about the system / pop-ups etc. I would also put my AE preferences here, but I ca

During the last two weeks, my After Effects has been completely unworkable. It’s constantly crashing in almost all my projects, whether it’s a newly created project or one I’ve worked on long ago.The crashes appear very randomly. It can occur when I’m moving an object in a 3D scene, or it can just crash when I’m watching a previewed scene. Sometimes it shows a crash log, sometimes it just goes dead, and I’m not even able to close it with Task Manager. My PC specs: Windows 10Intel i9-14900kRX 3090DDR5 128GBMotherboard: Asrock B760M Steel Legend WiFi3 M2 SSDs, 1TB each I’ve reinstalled Windows multiple times. Tried using legacy versions of the program such as AE 2019 and 2022. No overclocking, tried to undervolt even. No result.I also tried every single solution I found on the internet. Nothing helps.I desperately need help with this issue…Thanks to everyone in advance.  

Do you know how to create a function that would iterate through a string, finding the words to make an array. Then have it grab the first word, count how many characters is has, and go into the project and select that many layers and push them to a new start time (a marker if you know how)? ...and then do the same thing for the next word in the original string? 

After the latest update After Effects have become pretty much useless. I haven't been able to work with the program since monday. It keeps crashing at the startscreen, sometimes it goes through to the homescrren and when freezes, becomes unreachable, and when I have to go to Taskmaster to shut it down.  I don't get a pop up telling me something. I have tried all the usual /Safemode, delete preferences, downgrade, Beta etc. But nothing is working. The one time only, that I was able to do someting in it, the program crashes when I try to save/export the project.  My machine is way over the minimum requirements,  and Trend Micro/Open GL is not the case. This Isn't the first time, Adobe! It is really, really frustrating that there keeps coming updates, that to me, feels like a Betatest. My clients and colleagues can't keep waiting on this. What to do? And why, Adobe, why?

I just downloaded After Effects recently, but none of my plugins are working (MacOS). I saw that many people had this issue, and the solution was to launch using Sonoma or something, but this isn't an option. Please could Adobe fix this and allow for machines operating on Apple Silicon to work with plugins? Considering we pay for the app AND plugins, we should be allowed to use both to the fullest extent - this is unfair to Mac users otherwise. 

I am getting the error "type error: cannot read property 0 of null" in the following expression (for Source Text property):eval("var dateRange="+footage("WK_2022-2.json").sourceText); dateRange[5,0].D1;I am getting the same error (for "property 1") with this code: eval("var wkUser="+footage("WK_2022-2.json").sourceText); user=wkUser[0,1].D1; min=0; max=2500; max_movement=-800; newBaseline=874; myYheight=((user-min)/max)*max_movement+newBaseline; [value[0],myYheight]It appears that AE is not recognizing the JSON file.The file WK_2022-2.json exists; it and the project file are in the same folder. The JSON file is in the project.I've attached the JSON file for reference.What's really frustrating is that I've had it working, and then it stops.Version: AE 22.2.0 (Build 120)

Hey everyone, I've been trying to recreate this animation for some weeks now, but I'm struggling to get that pixel look and smooth transition from a shape layer to pixelation. I've been using CC Ball Action + Mosaic, and then using a circular mask to transition between flat shape layer, and the other one with the effects. But it doesn't really do the trick, and I wonder if there's other ways? Reference:https://64.media.tumblr.com/18cecc26949079e73742e712d48732ba/f20f48c921f7b8ec-d7/s540x810/125c203af57ece9fa15073176796a859fcb66cfc.gifv

 Its like the Title says, for every new shape layer, new composition or project, the fill color has some Transparency, which shouldn't be. Please, how do I correct this?

Strangely, I can use setText() but the other Text Styling Properties for setFontSize, setLeading and setTracking do nothing in the Nested/Essential Property Comp.  

I enable auto-logging by clicking Help>Enable Logging. That works just fine. However, when I'm finished I click on the same menu item to disable and a popup appears: "You must restart After Effects in order to toggle auto-logging. Click Change and Quit to toggle logging and exit After Effects." I click Change and Quit but when AE restarts it still has logging enabled. Is there an alternative way to turn this off?

When using Dynamic Link to make a new After Effects composition out of my Premiere project, the AE composition is just completely empty. I've made a very simple Premiere sequence out of just mp4 files. This has been happening before too, I am unsure of for how many versions, but researching this issue I was able to find unsolved forum threads all the way from 2019. Using Premiere to cut my footage and doing rest of the effects in AE is crucial for my workflow as managing video clips in AE is much more tedious and inefficient. Please help!

Hi,I would like to spawn question marks randomly in an invisible circular shape until the shape is completley filled by the question marks. Like drawn in the following pictures (Steps are simplified and reduced to only four steps for the explanation. The animation would have one keyframe for each spawning question mark):  Thank you in advance! 

Hello all,I am trying to update projects from AE 2017 that contain .mov files with alpha channels that were created with a now-unsupported MooV codec. I can no longer load or update the compositions in AE CC 2019 version 16.1.2 (or even in AE 2018 version 15) containing these files because I get the attached error messages:How do I resolve this? I am willing to download AE C 2017, but Creative Cloud only lets me manage back to the 2018 version. I also tried to open the .mov file in Quicktime 7, but I am unable to save it successfully. Please help, I am on deadline. Thanks in advance.

Hi all, I'm trying to export a 10-second vfx shot, its cut down as much as I can and has a curves effect, rotoscoping animated masks and a light-wrap plug-in (which I've already tested and can say is definetly not the cause of the issue). Its taken over 16 hours to export less than half way in Media Encoder on the standard 4k 25fps preset. Screenshots of my workflow are attached with all modified properties shown. I have a baseplate, then the effects are all in the 'Turtle Re-Aligned' pre-comp. Then, once inside Turtle Re-Aligned, all the actual layers and effects are within the REVERSE COMP 1 pre-comp because the light-wrap plug-in I'm using requires the layer receiving the plug-in and the footage its getting the light-wrap information from to be in separate comps. Inside the REVERSE COMP 1 there is just rotoscoped footage which is has its position animated. The Turtle Baseplate pre-comp inside the Turtle Re-Aligned comp just contains the same baseplate as the first screensh

Simplesmente não consigo mais usar o Track Camera, a função só fica "analisando" e depois da erro, diz que "o tempo de conexão com o servidor do dynamiclink expirou". Já tentei de tudo, até formatei o Macbook Pro M3 Pro. Fiz Downgrade do After e nada resolve.