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Hi,I finally made the switch to AE24 today and have run into trouble. Everything works just fine until I quit the application. At that point AE crashes and an error message comes up"after effects error: crash occurred while invoking plug-in "cineware scenelayer" It happens only with some projects. One of those projects uses the effects listed in the attached doc but I don't see anything there that would be using the cineware scenelayer plugin. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what may be going on? Many thanks I'm running AE24.0.3 on Ventura 13.6 

Whenever I try to open my after effects project, it gives me four errors and then crashes. I have no idea what to do and I am desperate to get the file working. I will add pictures of the errors.

  I tried to import c4d files into the program but failed to do over and over againdue to that error. I copied softwares the image I attached below. Though, It was no use doing this.Please help me figure out this. I'd be very appreciated If anyone can respond to it quickly.Thank you.  

Hello everyone, I'm encountering an issue with a .mov file. The problem arises when I attempt to scale it to 32%—at this scale, the file appears blurred. Interestingly, without scaling, the quality remains good. I've explored solutions online suggesting the use of 'collapse transformation' and adjusting to full view mode, but unfortunately, these haven't resolved the issue for me. Any other recommendations or suggestions?

so Im currently trying to edit a video and I need to hear my microphone audio in order to time stuff properly. however i cant hear my microphone in after effects.I can hear the gameplay perfectly fine and my microphone audio is able to be heard in preimere proIve already gone through many tutorials on how to fix the issue but none have worked so farI use NVIDIA Shadowplay to record my audio and I have two seperate tracks in order to adjust my microphone audio independently of the gameplay being recordedI believe that could be the issue but im not sure.the audio track doesnt have any waveform at all and the file is visibile in effect just not able to be heard

so Im currently trying to edit a video and I need to hear my microphone audio in order to time stuff properly. however i cant hear my microphone in after effects.I can hear the gameplay perfectly fine and my microphone audio is able to be heard in preimere proIve already gone through many tutorials on how to fix the issue but none have worked so farI use NVIDIA Shadowplay to record my audio and I have two seperate tracks in order to adjust my microphone audio independently of the gameplay being recordedI believe that could be the issue but im not sure.the audio track doesnt have any waveform at all and the file is visibile in effect just not able to be heard

Good evening everyone, Is there a way to copy Keyframes across different layers in one go? I always have to select > copy per layer and paste individually. if I select multiple layers keyframes, I create a copy of the layers instead. Thank you for your help, _Jessie

Ok i'm not sure how this is happening, I'm working on a (very tedious) after effects project and just about to be done... I am using 3d and the camera to move in and out of these frames that zoom in and out. The video is around 4 minutes long, and as I am finishing the section at 4 minutes with keyframes for the camera all along the way, suddenly the beginning looks way off... so I adjusted that but then later the positions were off, all with keyframes throughout for the camera...  Is there a reason the camera is changing perspecitve at the beginning of the video while i'm working on the end of the video? I thought keyframes were supposed to hold it in place right where it is? None of the other settings changed (field of view, orientation etc). Would love some help, getting frustrated.  Some screenshots of how I have the camera keyframed and how it looks incorrect in the frame as well as what it's supposed to look like 

Hey guys! ive been having a problem with my 3D camera for a week now. I cant upload the video so here is the link to a dropbox. Ive tried everything. i even resorted to wiping out my whole ae system. and nothing has worked. please help me i really dont know what to do. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4v5tg3f33vm3goj7g26e8/2023-12-10-11-39-11.mp4?rlkey=69ju2d0qbj9j3khvikliftkz8&dl=0

Is there a shortcut key to copy and paste After Effects keyframes?No, I don't want any kind of script to do so. I just want to move selected keyframes (they're multiple, not one, and they are in different layers) from a time to another time. But when I copy and paste them, AE pastes the whole layers!Is there a way to copy them without copying the layers? 

I have been trying to use the VC Orb sample project in Geolayers3 to create some animations. However I am having difficulty with this. Whenever I draw a new shape on the map in the "01 texture" mapcomp it is inserted into the wrong composition ("Texture Spherical" composition rather than the "01 Texture" composition as it should). Does anyone know how to adjust the Geolayer 3 settings so that it inserts the country shapes into the correct layer?

Im trying to edit a video that will be around 10 min of some screenshots and videos with voice-over. I have used After Effects for a while, but everyone says its better to use Premiere Pro for such a project. My question is simple, why is it better to use Premiere instead? After Effects seems to just "work", whilst Premiere Pro keeps crashing, some options arent available, and it has tons of bugs. so.. whats the difference?

Hey all, I require a bit of a assistance and have been a bit stumped by an error which I'm getting on a project that I've been working on. I'm trying to create a MOGRT with selection controls but have been getting an error which states:"After Effects warning: Expression disabled. Error at line 30 in property 'Opacity' of layer 12. Error: effect named 'Player Selection' is missing or does not exist. It may have been renamed, moved, deleted or the name may have been mistyped." Here is the code below, which, as far as I can see, is all correct. All the layers are named right and spelt right so i'm not entirely sure as to why I'm still getting this error pop up.  My language knowledge is amateur at best so it might be something really simple.  thisComp.layer("CONTROL").effect("Player Selection").compositingOption.effectOpacityplayer_selection = thisComp.layer("CONTROL").effect("Player Selection")("Menu");player = Math.floor(effect("Player Selection")("Menu"));t = 0;if(p

Hi, I'm making a MOGRT with multiple text layers, each layer is 1 line of text. I want to give users ability to change the font size for each line, but when they're the same font size, I want them to be evenly spaced. Using the sourceRect height doesn't work since it changes if caps were used, if there is ascenders, etc., which makes the lines look uneven. Is there a way to access what the maximum size of the text layer WOULD be given an font and size?

Create cinematic 2D and / or 3D shockwaves to match your favourite space movies.   In this video, I talk you through how to create a planar shockwave (as first seen in Star Trek VI: the Undiscovered Country when the Klingon moon of Praxis explodes). The opening of that movie starts with a cataclysmic event which results in two shockwaves traveling through space.  It's an awesome opening scene and the VFX was reused in the Stargate movie and the Star Wars Special Editions. While exploding rings may not be scientifically likely, they do look pretty cool, but every tutorial I've seen on the topic has stuck to the 2D method. It turns out it is possible and quite simple to produce a 3D expanding ring using CC Particle World. I cover both the 2D version, which uses a combination of Fractal Noise, Linear Wipes and Polar Coordinates to get the right look. Then I go on to use the included CC Particle World to generate a shockwave in an entirely different way.     Project

Just wondering if anyone can ched light on why we can't save ram preview?? I thought Adobe was bringing this feature back, and don't understand whay they took it out in the first place!!

I'm editing a bit of medical footage that shows someone using a postural assesssment machine, where there will be callouts of a client's pelvis, spine, etc. that are motion tracked to his body. This is the effect that I'm going for (excuse the crappyness of the spine track)https://youtu.be/M0hijUEYSHI This means applying motion tracking data to callouts so that the target is locked onto where his spine/pelvis/legs would be. I downloaded various callouts from Envato Elements and experimented with applying motion tracking data to them but they all ended up being absolute hell to work with. And so I would appreciate some help on how to quickly make my own callouts for motion tracking. I watched some youtube videos on making callouts but none of them were applicable for my project. If anyone wants to have a crack at making some super bare bones callouts for motion tracking please do so, I would be very grateful as I wasted a lot of time fiddling with this. I have a

Hey there guys,  have a project coming up next week with an effect I want to achieve - wanted to get some second thoughts on how you'd achieve this. My client wants me to display the pressure on each ski in a ski video. The idea is a trail appears behind the two skis as they ski and the trail is left behind on the ground. Ok, this is fine! I can just draw out the trail behind him, use trim paths to make it appear, then 3d motion track to have it stick to the ground, right? However, they also want each ski trail to have it's own graph. The graph will represent pressure on the skis. The right ski graph will rise up over time as the pressure increases, and the left ski will decrease. This will be a curved line with some waves at the top to denote smoothness. They are also asking for some kind of solid shape in the graph, so it isn't just the two lines up and down, but each graph has some form. Usually for trails I would just draw a path and then 3d motion tra

Hello,I am working on a simple AE plugin that creates some layers (world) and let an external function do the rendering. It works well on preview, and when rendered alone (when having only one effect). However if I add another effect like noise, and when I do the rendering I get this error code 1397908844. The std::exception indicates that concerns vector deallocation problem. I tried on a very simple example (in entry_point) with my plugin and the noise effect and get the same results. Here is the code I have for the smart rendering function:PF_Err entry_point( PF_Cmd cmd, PF_InData* in_data, PF_OutData* out_data, PF_ParamDef* params[], PF_LayerDef* output, void* extra) { PF_Err err = PF_Err_NONE; try { switch (cmd) { // ... case PF_Cmd_SMART_RENDER: { PF_SmartRenderExtra* extraa = reinterpret_cast<PF_SmartRenderExtra*>(extra); // Get input and output. P

what is the best way to learn motion graphic for beginner?and I would be grateful if you could provide me with easy sources 🙏 I'm lost, I don't know how to start... and I haven't found good free learning resources.

I am trying to modify a sample plugin to rwite frames to a pipe and anycrhronnously receive frames from that same pipe. However, I cannot find a sample plugin that anycrhronnously receives frames. Any idea on how I can achieve this? 

Hello, I am asking for advice on how to cut the canvas (composition) from one side, therefore cropp. I know how to resize the composition, but that way it will be cropped evenly on all sides, which I don't want now. thanks for any reply.

So, I have paid an early subscription cancellation fee as my daughter no longer uses the After Effects app. But I have recently had a monthly payment taken out, AFTER I'd already paid the cancellation fee. Can anyone explain this to me please, because I cannot find a way of blocking this payment and it is coming out of my Credit Card. HELP!

Hi everyone, I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but I've been practicing motion graphics and while I'm alright at the animation part, I'll be honest in saying I mostly just google what I'm supposed to render things as. I've been creating a stinger to be used for streaming but OBS does a weird thing where it doesn't render semi transparency properly and I was about to give up on it until I saw someone post their snow blizzard stinger for free. I downloaded it because I wanted to figure out how they worked around the transparency but I noticed that when you view the video it looks like it has a background? When it's used in OBS or viewed on after effects it doesn't have the background. How is this achieved? I know how to render transparent videos (haven't used webp much but i've used quicktime a lot of times) but i've never seen where they have a background in one thing and not in another. I would ask elsewhere but I honestly don't even know what to search for this.&nbsp

How can I find out what fonts are being used in my AE project? My project has a lot of comps, layers and text. I need to find which text is using one particular font, so that I can replace that font with a new font. AE seems to only offer "Find Missing Fonts". But I do not have a "missing font" to relink. This feature exists in Premiere as "Replace Fonts in Project", which gathers a list of fonts used in the project and allows you to replace them.