After Effects

  It can be really frustrating when After Effects starts misbehaving. One of the most efficient ways to fix this is to reset After Effects preference files. Trashing preferences resets the program to its factory defaults.   Resetting preferences will undo most of your customization such as length of your default transitions, brightness of the user interface, labels colors, changes that you've made to your audio hardware settings and more. Some changes won't be affected though, such as changes that you've made to memory allocation for After Effects and other Adobe apps, new workspaces that you've created and some other stuff. It's worth noting that changes that you've made to existing workspaces (changes such as resizing panels and moving them) will be reset to defaults.   Preferences that you set for scratch disks, however, are saved with your projects. Whenever you open a project, it automatically defaults to the scratch disks you selected for it when you set up that p

After effects will not launch, last thing on splash screen is mediacore, not even as admin in safe mode with no 3rd party plugins and reset preferences.Posted here because it seemed to start when using After Effects, but no Adobe video apps will load. AfterFX 25.4 and 23.6, PPro 25.4 and 23.6.8, Media Encoder 25.4 all crash at splash screen. Photoshop loads OK, but I thought Creative Cloud app was very sluggish for a while too, though now it's OK. Dell XPS 15 9520, i7-12700H, 64GB RAM, RTX 3050 laptopWindows 11 24H2 latest update KB5063878After Effects 25.4 and 23.6Premiere 25.4 and 23.6.8Media Encoder 25.4 I don't use many scripts or plugins, but had recently installed a script "DuplicateFrameRemover.jsxbin" into After Effects by copying this file into Support Files/Scripts/ScriptUI Panels. It worked well for a day or two across restarts. When this problem occurred I removed but issue persisted. If this didn't cause it then this is pretty random, but there are

I want to do exactly this same effect in the face:https://youtu.be/bHs86ImDkbs?si=B_oRnFmehUjYUUo9&t=20What i tried SO FAR in my AE 2022:https://i.gyazo.com/08d0171dc6d15c86e86dc97022bd9b7a.pngBut it's not the same result, any tips? Thanks in advance.

Hello, I have a recurring issue: it involves create and animate an environment light layer with shadows enabled and even more when it has keyframes in a 3D scene. I’m unable to export a composition that uses the environment light. And when my composition has more than five layers, I can’t create an environment light layer with shadows enabled. After Effects crashes. How can I fix this?

Hello, I have read the other forum posts on this topic and would like to highlight my own.My issue is similar to this one. I haven’t tried running AE in admin as I am using my work computer, but moving the file to a local drive did NOT work. My company avoids cloud-based services because we use our own internal networks (could THAT be the reasoning? IDK) I received a SolidWorks .glb file from one of our engineers over email. I downloaded it and when importing the .glb to AE was met with this message.  My first guess was that this was because the file was downloaded from our internal email server. However when I received the .glb directly on a USB stick, it was still unable to import. Perhaps there is an incompatibility with SolidWorks’ export settings? I can successfully import .glbs downloaded from 3D model websites. I am able to open the .glb files in Adobe Dimension with no issue. I am also to able export from Dimension as an .glb, .gltf, and .obj, all of which successfully import t

Latest version of After Effects never opened, always crashes at startup. 

Dear Adobe Support Team,I am facing a recurring issue while launching Adobe After Effects on my workstation. The error message displayed is:"After Effects warning: Unable to create AGM font ('Adobe Clean' - 'Bold') Processor: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700 @ 2.10 GHzInstalled RAM: 16 GB (15.7 GB usable)System Type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processorOperating System: [Mention your Windows version, e.g., Windows 10 Pro]After Effects Version: [Mention AE version, e.g., After Effects 2024Since none of these steps resolved the problem, I would appreciate your guidance on how to fix this issue. Please let me know if you require any additional details

Hi,I ABSOLUTELY need to reopen a project created under AFX 24.1 (because of CINEWARE), but this version is not accessible via Adobe Creative Cloud.How can I retrieve it, please?This is very important and quite urgent… :(Thank you in advance if you can help me!

Recently, After Effects seems to want an demand more RAM from my PC whereas before I would be able to do the work I needed to do and even sometimes more advanced ones without a hitch but now even a small animation seems to not work. Before my CPU upgrade, I was even able to have a couple tabs on FireFox playing but now even with everything turned off it seems to struggle immensely and introduce a lot of lag spikesI recently upgrade my CPU from the Ryzen 3600 to a 5700X while keeping my 32gb RAM and RTX 3060 while also made the jump from Windows 10 to 11. I never had this kind of issue before and I was wondering why does After Effects wants more now compared to before when I clearly made an objectively good upgrade for the sake of performance

Hi SDK team and fellow plugin devs,I'd like to get a definitive answer on whether dynamically toggling PF_PUI_INVISIBLE on PF_Param_GROUP_START topics is part of the supported PF API surface, or if it's effectively undefined behavior.ContextI'm building a native PF effect (AE-style, AE SDK 25.6, Skeleton-based, universal binary) that exposes a variable number of editable sub-groups in the Effect Controls Panel — up to 100 topic groups in the worst case. The pattern I'm using is the textbook one:1. At PF_Cmd_PARAMS_SETUP, declare all 100 PF_Param_GROUP_START / PF_Param_GROUP_END pairs (each enclosing ~10 child params) with ui_flags |= PF_PUI_INVISIBLE on every entry.2. As the user creates events, dynamically clear PF_PUI_INVISIBLE on the relevant GROUP_START/GROUP_END/children via PF_UpdateParamUI() during PF_Cmd_UPDATE_PARAMS_UI.3. Same call also reasserts PF_PUI_INVISIBLE on the still-unused groups, with force_update on every tick.Initial render is correct: only the active groups are

When importing a .psd file as a composition, I receive the message: "Encountered errors while importing selected items. 1) After effects error: Illegal XML character “” in string “[file path]”. Layers appear offline. When I close and restart app, everything is online. Also occurs when right clicking imported psd footage>Create>Convert to Layered Comp.I already checked that there are no illegal characters in filename of layer names.Version 26.2.1 (Build 2)MacbookPro M3 Max, Nov 2023, Sonoma Version 14.6.1

I have an image and a video that I positioned on the comp after scaling both down so they are positioned how I want them.  I now want to scale both items down so they are real small so I can keyframe them both scaling up together. I will use parenting to get them both to scale up together How do I scale both of them in proportion to a small size? Is there a way to group them both to do this? They are not yet keyframed Thanks  

Hi guys ! I have an Intel Core Ultra 7 265F, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 with 32gb and my After Effects is still very slow when editing. I’ve tried every tips AI gave me but it sadly doesn’t change anything… I use Twixtor, Sapphire and BCC a lot, which would be a reason why it’s slow but i don’t know… Thank you so much for your help. 😁

Hi, I have a problem that already fixed by myself but better if it's fixed by the developers.So when i update my audio on a comp and then go outside the comp, i see my waveform still used the old audio waveform not the new audio that i just puted in to the comp.The solution is to turn off and then turn on again the audio icon on the comp and then it fixed, the audio waveform just updated.i Think the old version doesnt have this kind of problem before, so please help us fix this little bug, cuz this bug sometimes anoying for who dont know yet.

Hello there :)I’ve been working on my desktop PC for about 4 years now and despite some issues with an SSD NVMe and a recent problem with a a damaged USB PCIe expansion card that caused my PC to lag as hell before I identified the problem and removed it, I am quite happy with it. I produce music and am a motion-graphics designer, so I use lots of softwares and plugins and the PC is quite robuts to handle it, even on tight schedules for my clients and big renders (over 4K with plugins such as Element 3D or Deep Glow, Shadow studio, Handy cam, etc.). I’ve been watching a lot of tests that point to the RTX 5070 as a great solution for 4K editing and was wondering if anyone had any experience with such an upgrade, especially 3060 8Gb to 5070 12Gb.I also read there were some issues with the 5070 and so far, most of the time, my philosophy has always been “as long as it works”, don’t update / upgrade.But if it can help me improve my workflow and gain some rendering time, I’d be curious to kn

I would like to report a problem in the Japanese version of After Effects v26.2.The new "Quick Apply" feature does not support partial match search for Japanese characters. It only returns results for an "exact match," which significantly hinders the workflow.In the "Effects & Presets" panel, partial match search works fine in Japanese. Please update Quick Apply to support the same Japanese search behavior as the existing panels.

As of AE version 26.0.0 renders that should be rendered to an interlaced format end up as incorrect.The duration of the export is correct, though the content is playing at 200% and the rest is filled with a solid black (No transparancy)This workflow has worked for me for 20+ years. Unless I’ve fundamentally messed something up in my workflow this seems like a pretty severe bug, as the reality is that most of linair television still runs on interlaced.Create new composition at 25 fps (in PAL-cases) Add content Add composition to render queue in Render Settings change Field Render to Upper Field First Change output to Quicktime (422, 4444, animation; all have the same outcome) Render

I get this error. No clue on how to solve it.

Hello, I've tried everything to get the spill off the apple,the top and legs/shoes but it's not working.Does anyone have any ideas on how to remove spill from reflective surfaces?