After Effects

Hi,After Effects seems to break my project files.Expected behavior:I open a project and the first preview frame renders.Actual B behavior:under certain circumstances After Effects doesn't render any preview frames after opening a project (the preview area just becomes grey). I can scroll through the timeline, change effect settings etc. but no frames are rendered and the program has 0% CPU usage. It crashes on exit.This behavior can be reproduced this way (I can only reproduce it using BorisFX Sapphire plugins, but I suspect it's an AE issue): See attachments for demonstration.1. Launch After Effects2. Configure Project Settings -> Color like this:(3. Restart After Effects)4. Create a new composition with 3 layers: 2 solids, 1 adjustment layer above them5. Put S_DistortRGB onto the adjustment layer and set "Lens" and "Matte from Layer" to the layer directly below the adj. layer. Change both from "Source" to "Effects & Masks".6. Put e.g. Fractal Noise on the layer that is us

Hi community!I would like to use the cc particle world effect in one of my compositions. But when I use it I can't see my composition in the background anymore and I can't find any option to change that in the effect menu itself. Maybe I need to create a transparent layer and apply the effect to it but I don't know how to do that aswell.It's probably a simple problem but I don't know how to find the solution. instead of the black background I want to see the composition underneath it.Any help is appreciated thanks!

My question is, how is the position property calculated then after the anchor point has moved to 0? Is it calculated based on the shift of the layer content? Initial Setup:(transform effect)Anchor Point: (540, 540)Position: (540, 540)Visual Position: The layer is centered in the composition.Change Anchor Point:Anchor Point: (0, 540)Position: (540, 540)Visual Position: The layer content shifts right by 540 pixels.

It´s normal that AE comsume RAM until eat it all with out doing nothing? Just with a project open?? This is nuts.

So I have a few clips that I would like to erase or mask a person and use content aware fill. I have read up on it and follow some youtube channels to learn. I do everything they say to do step by step and after it analyzes the clip and then rendors the clip I am left with a black box over the person I want to be masked over. Nothing gets filled. Am I doing something wrong?

Currently, I can press "Page Up/Page Down" to move backward/forward by 1 frame and use "Shift + Page Up/Page Down" to move backward/forward by 10 frames.What if I want to go backward/forward by 5 frames or another specific number of frames? Does After Effects have a similar feature to Premiere Pro's "Step Forward/Back Many: x frames," as shown in the image below?Thank you.

Greetings,I have an expression for a shape to follow the trim path of another shape. var path = thisComp.layer("Shape Layer 3").content("Path 1").path; var trimPath = thisComp.layer("Shape Layer 3").content("Trim Paths 1").end / 100; var targetLayer = thisComp.layer("Shape Layer 3"); var point = path.pointOnPath(trimPath); targetLayer.toComp(point) Would it be possible to account for trim path offset (on the trim paths 1)?  

My After Effects is working very slowly; the entire workflow is lagging and hanging. When I need to move layers in the composition panel or adjust keyframes in the timeline, it lags extremely. My PC itself isn't that slow, but this problem is making it nearly impossible to work with After Effects. Is there a solution

My words are facing the wrong way.How i do:1. I type my word2. I create masks under same word3.  I select " Mask 1"4. It doesnt face like the photo belowHowever, it face like the photo below: Please kindly help, thank you.

After Effects sometimes lets me save as but more often than not, for the last couple of months or so the naming/title part of the save as window is completely greyed out and it won't let me do anything. This is driving me mad as my work completely revolves around working in Adobe and this is slowing me down so much.

In AE 2024.4.1 Settings (that incidentally opens a window entitled 'Preferences'), the option for Use Label Color for Layer Handles and Paths does not work for mask paths when it's deselected. The handles become grey but the mask path colour remains the colour of the layer, it doesn't turn to the neutral grey. I do recall this setting working in previous versions of AE. Doesn't help with a current project consisting of multiple coloured dashed strokes each with their layer colours matching the shape colour, the mask path is almost invisible. This would seem to be an essential functionality bug that needs immediate attention?  😉 Mac Studio M2macOS Sonoma 14.5 

Hello all, need help.Someone knowswhy my environment layer is greyed out?thank you.

The Wave Warp plugin breaks down when larger sine waves are used - it almost appears to use a raster map to distort an image instead of procedural math.   Been like this for several decades, finally getting around to asking for it to be fixed.  Doesn’t matter what bit depth the project is in - this happens with 8, 16 bit etc.. at Best layer quality (though it looks like Draft, doesn’t it?)  And antialiasing in the effect is already at High.   View below is actually zoomed out, not in despite how pixellated / chunky it looks. 

Render Issue: After rendering the project in Ae, Me, and Pr in H.264 file format, there was a Green glitch in the video sometimes the video stayed empty or blank screen. I tried changing the export format. I used HEVC (H.265) The output looks good. I just wanted to understand the issue. Thank you!

hello!! so i have been using after effects for 4 years now as an instagram editor using my macbook pro. recently in march, i changed my project format to h264 for a youtube project i helped my friend work on. however, after changing my settings back to default so i can continue to make videos for instagram, i noticed washed out colors after rendering. after some research i learned that it was a quicktime error that is common with animators or video creators. the solution i saw was to leave it alone and it'll look like what i saw on adobe, but when posting my videos to instagram, they looks exactly the same as they did on quicktime. i do not plan on using h264 in the future so im not sure what to do to get my videos to look like how it used to look. here is an example using my pet tortoise

Hello all,  I am working with one of the videos from NASA Studio:  https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3816/ (second video 0:40-0:56) And my goal is to create a "growing" line that goes around the equator and the moves with the sphere as it rotates. I was able to do it for the 60th south latitude (3D Tracking - create camera and solid - pre compose the solid, trim path line on a new layer and delete the solid). But for the equatorial area I can't sem to get it right - probably because the change in rotation is bigger?  Does anyone have an idea? Thanks! 

I rendered my clip in aftereffects, and all the PNG images were getting wired background even though the images were transparent. For example in the picture below the mouse pointer is a PNG transparent image but it's getting a pink background. 

System specs:AMD Ryzen 7950x64GB RAM DDR5 @ 5600mhzRTX 4090Windows 11AE version 24.1 Steps:1. Open AE, blank project. 2. Create 16K x 16K comp3. Create a white solid at comp size4. Apply Lumetri Color to it5. At this point it will instantly say to render with software only6. Change any setting in Lumetri i.e. ExposureAE crashesBefore anyone wonders why you need 16K comp... Had a job where client wanted endframe of animation at very high res so we tried 16K x 16K. If Lumetri was applied to any layer it could not render the frame. One more problem we had was that AE couldn't even handle 16K 32bit EXRs (literally hit the internal memory limit) so we used png. 

Steps:1. Open After Effects, make sure it's maximized2. In Windows Explorer, open any After Effects projectAE goes to windowed modeAnother way to do it1. Open After Effects, make sure it's maximized2. Right click on AE icon in start bar, pick any project from Recent listAE goes to windowed modeSystem specs:AMD Ryzen 7950x64GB RAM DDR5 @ 5600mhzRTX 4090Windows 11AE version 24.1  I have attached a video example of this bug.This has been bugged for at least 6-7 years, if not more. Pretty sure it happens on every Windows device. I personally had this bug happen on at least 5 different Windows devices and 2 were my own PCs with different hardware. Happens on Windows 10 and 11. This never happens in Premire, Photoshop, Illustrator, all other Adobe apps work fine. Only After Effects goes to windowed mode and only when the project is opened from outside AE.

Greetings! I'll get straight to it. Up until yesterday, I could render everything just fine. No issues. Come today, everything I put into my render queue has the last frame black. No matter what output settings, when set to the whole composition, its last frame is black. I've ensured that the contents extend beyond the time needed to export - there is content in the frames. FPS matches for each individual composition within the entire project. Anything that allowed me to alter fps, I made sure they all matched up.I'm trying to loop this footage and its ending with an empty frame. I get I can change the export to "custom" and manually change the end point, but that should not be the case for this software. I export 50+ files at a time and I cant manually make this edit each time. That shouldnt and hasnt been the case up until now. How do I tell this software to go back to what it used to do, and not produce a final black frame?I can and have created a brand new projects.

going to try to keep concise.  got the classic low memory error in after effects today. won’t preview more than 2-4 frames. it was in a very light weight project (no 3D in project. all standard built in effects.) opened the same project on a different machine and no issues at all. i have 3GB of 64GB dedicated to OTHER programs so 61GB dedicated to AE. tried multi frame rendering on and off. adaptive resolution. clearing cache, etc. restarted. tried to use an older version of AE. cache is stored on D drive with 2TB SSD storage. nothing worked. only solution was opening on a different machine. problem machine:windows 1164GB ramthe machine it worked on was an old mac pro.