After Effects

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

Im on after effects 2023 and windows 10, basically i am trying to zoom in a video but i cant click on my keyframes to select them, but i can select both at once by clicking scale. When i do this, it opens the graph but im unable to edit it because there are no yellow boxes for me to drag, how can i fix this?

Bonjour tout le monde,Je ne peux plus lancer le logiciel after effects sans avoir les différents messages suivantsJ'ai ré-installé deux fois le logiciel, après avoir nettoyé les dossiers, rien n'y fait, avez-vous des solutions, j'ai un projet urgent à finir.Je n'ai pas trouvé de solutionsEn vous remerciant par avance pour vos solutions

Hi, I'm sure this has been covered before somewhere, but couldn't find an open ticket.When exporting projects to render from After Effects to Media Encoder, an error message is produced:  This happens when using the Extensis Connect Fonts client. I've reached out to them about the bug, and received this response:This is because Adobe introduced a new 'feature' in version 23.6 onwards of Media Encoder which made it load all After Effects plugins in the background, however our plugin is designed specifically for After Effects only and is not designed for Media Encoder hence you will either need to roll back to version 23.5 or just click on OK to ignore the warning.

Hi!The tutorials to After Effects are missing at https://helpx.adobe.com/se/after-effects/tutorials.html# but I am able to see the headlines to the different sections of tutorials. Does anybody else not see the tutorials?

Hello! Previously when I applied Vegas to any precomp it would apply the stroke. But in the 2024.2.1 version, it shows nothing. I don't know what happened and what can be the solution. Can anyone please suggest me regarding this issue? Sincerely,Nazmul

I am working on a project. I used text and applied an effect to this text. I continued working, but then I needed another text with the same effect. However, I don't remember the name of that effect. When I go to the effect control panel to find out, I don't see the effect. Maybe it is not a preset, but I don't remember the name of the effect I applied to the previous text.

Hi guys,Anyone has this strange and annoying text bug?I have a composition which has: 1 text layerNow when I paste in another element (a .psd, a .mov, whatever) the appearance of the text moves upwards to the screen (to the top of the added layer?)Check:I already experience this bug for 1 year now and wonder what it is, why it is, ...?Lots of crashes also when changing properties of an already existing text layer. Something tod o with certain fonts? ftt / otf?Any tips on this one?Thanks a lot!JoostTitle was edited by: Mod

Mac Mini M2 32GB Ventura 13.3.1AE 23.3.0I stabilize a lot of timelapse drone images with Warp Stabilizer, but often it will freeze during the Analysis pass. If I restart AE and start Analysis again is will usually complete but sometimes I have to remove the effect, restart AE and then run Warp Stabilizer again to complete the Analysis step. I am currently running on AE 23.3.0 but this has been happening for awhile, on intel and silicon Macs and with previous versions of AE.

With the latest version (23.4) and the new sorting logic, things are becoming messy.While it is nice to have elements like 1 and 1.1 placed close to each other, many other aspects have changed.Now, compositions that begin with symbols like - or _ are placed below elements that start with numbers. Previously, it was the opposite.Additionally, if you have two compositions with the same name, but one starts with a single _ and the other starts with double __, the one with the double underscore will be positioned below the single underscore.This behavior is opposite even to what is used to in Windows Explorer.These changes significantly impact the naming workflow. It is beneficial for 1 and 1.1, but problematic for everything else.

It used to be the case that underscore sorted before alphanumeric characters and other symbols.  We have many projects where we have named items in the project panel with a starting underscore character (_) so that those items sort to the top of their folder.  However, with the change in sort order of recent AE 23 updates, including AE 23.6, the sorting order appears broken, and these items end up in the middle of their folder, after items that begin with other symbols or a number, but before items that begin with a letter.  Can Adobe fix this to restore the old sort order, which would also be consistent with the sort order in the OS? 

i'm using font manager with animated fonts, but it doesn't have the option to offset on the timeline per word ...so i get a giant list of idividual characters as layers. i'm asking if there is something i could put a sentance into and then have it offset the layer groups that contain each word?i wouldn't be asking if i didn't have a metric ton of these to handle.