After Effects

When in a team project and I write text, right click, and select relace with AE comp to bring that text into After Effects the transition wont work and with make a "placeholder" instead in After Effects. Anyone have this issue?

Hi all! first post out of pure desparation... In short: UI is slow (like often "power point presentation slow" and especially Trapcode plugins are almost unusable. Maxon Support basically said "deal with it" (details see bottom) but these plugins aside it still it runs much smoother on colleagues's slightly older but similar pcs (all HP). My IT's last suggestion was that it might "just" be a Windows issue (Colleagues Win10, myself Win11), although on my private pc (Win11) it is running okay. Pls don't mark this as a pure "Trapcode problem" although this is currently our main issue. I have been using After FX for 20y+ now and notice when the general performance drops, which it unfortunately did over the last versions 😞 - this is the main issue, but they might be related.We also noticed similar performance drops in the newest Photoshop version - not the topic here but it shows that this might also be related. Thx for your suggestions! Examples: Selecting

please help, how do i rectify this.  

AE 24.0.2 and AE Beta 24.1 crashes up startup.  If I reboot and delete cache folders it will sometimes startup, but when opening existing files or creating new files it will freeze and I have to end task and reboot again.I was able to open a new project once with 24.1 Beta, but once I tried to use Roto Brush to outline for matteing then AE froze.  I've removed it and reinstalled numerous times with AdobeCreativeCloudCleanerTool with no success.  Premier Pro and other Adobe program work, but I need AE to remove background(s) because the Chrome Keys don't a good job. I've had an existing Support case number ADB-31399659-W4G6 open for sometime, but they haven't been any help.  This really impacting one of my major project with a client and I need help ASAP to get this resolved.Here's one example of what it is freezing on upon startup:   

I have a big problem with After my project crashes at a specific momentI'm having a problem with After Effects.Everything was fine until I closed After Effects yesterday and rebooted my PC.Now, every time I reopen it, After Effects opens normally, but if I try to load my AEP project (which is in dynamic link with my Premiere Pro project from the same year)it loads up to 88% and then systematically freezes.I've tried with an old autosave, same thing, I have to go back far enough in the autosaves for one to open without a hitch, but it's far too old for me to let myself lose such a large amount of work.I don't understand how this happens, I just know that the project can open, if I move the source files of my project, which are used in it (for example I move my illustrations and the Premiere Pro project somewhere else, then my After Effects project opens correctly, but without my loaded media of course because they've been moved. And if I try to reload them, After Effects crashes again).

20 minutes of testing v24 and I cnnot turn on the transparent background.windows22h2 threadripper 3955nvidia 4090bit annoyingso not one person on the beta was working with transparent background? (not as annoying as being forced to add tags or have a really small title character limit though)Maybe the next AI project can just do the tagging for me please? you could use some 1970s subject analysis tools 

Upgraded from 24 to 24.02 changed a Prores4444 custom preset from straight to matte alpha wirth no warning. Mac m2 tower. 

Abres After Effects y es imposible reproducir nada, desde el inicio ya te da Error de After Effects: La previsualización de caché precisa 2 o más fotogramas para poderse reproducir.Es una vergüenza que Adobe me esté cobrando por usar una aplicación que no funciona y tenga que utilizar Davinci Resolve Studio para hacer lo que con After Effects es imposible. Mucha AI, pero no arreglan lo más simple.

Hey guys is there any way I can edit a .ffx file. What program can I use to do this? Thanks

I'm trying to create a graph with multiple lines based on a CSV file with different columns of data. Two columns in particular have values that go above 1000000 and I think here is the problem. Because the other columns don't give me any problem and I can create a line for each of those. When I do the same process for the columns with values with values over 1000000, I receive this error. I will upload an image of the spreadsheet, of the expression and the sliders that I'm using. You may ask "Why do you use a point control instead of a slider control for the Y values?" Because only the point control can reach values above 1 million, however this doesn't seem to work, I don't know where is the problem.

I discuss that:   Sound effects such as thunder or rain were added in aftereffects.

This has always been an issue. I was half expecting it to be fixed for the latest AE release but of course the devs have been too busy adding pointless 3D renderers rather than actually fixing the huge problems in the playback engine.In a 25fps UHD comp the preview from the Blackmagic Intensity Pro 4k lags behind the main display by a huge amount, we're talking seconds here, not just frames and it gets worse the longer the preview plays for. No issues at HD and I get realtime playback in UHD with Resolve and Premiere so there's no blame to be put on the BM card, just AEs shocking Mercury Playback engine. This basically means that as of 2017 AE is still incapable of playing back UDH footage to an external monitor. Nice job adobe.AE 14.0.1.5Win 105930k64Gb ram2 x 980ti

I imported an AI file into AE, i then added a new layer in my AI doucument, but it won't appear in my AE document, i've tried importing as composition (retain layer size), as footage too, also tried relaoding footage, nothing seems to work, any help much appreciated

Running After Effects 2021 (18.2.0) on Windows. Program runs well. When I quit, it takes a long, long time to close out the program. Oftern I'll use Task Manager to quit. This behavious seems to have started within the last two updates. 

I'm trying to use the 3D camera tracker to place my own video on the television set that the woman is watching (circled).  However, when I inputted my video, it comes out blurry. I tried calling Adobe Support but they just sent me the 3D tracker manual which is not helping in this instance. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong and any help would be appreciated. 

ich habe ein After Effects Projekt, dass ich auf einem Mac erstellt habe und nun auf meinem Windows PC (Win11, RTX 4070) weiter bearbeiten möchte. Wenn ich das Projekt öffne ist erstmal alles normal. Sobald ich aber eine bestimmte Komposition in der Vorschau abfahre stürzt After Effects ab. in dieser Komposition gibt es nur zwei Farbflächen mit einem Verlauf und Schlagschatten die sich bewegen.  Ich hab schon einiges probiert, aber weiß nun einfach nicht mehr weiter.

Is it possible to change the canvas color in After Effects? I.e. the color outside compositions.If working with a dark movie it's sometimes hard to see the edges./P

I've got a composition of an animated bug. I have a script that gives it random movement left and right with pauses (so it'll crawl randomly left or right, stop, then crawl again at random intervals).I'm looking for a way to flip the composition to face the direction it is moving and STAY that way while paused. I'm currently using this hackey way to flip the X scale depending on the direction it's moving, but it always goes back to facing one way when it stops, when it should be facing the way it was facing when it stopped. var movement = transform.position.velocity; if (movement[0] < 0) { transform.scale } else { [transform.scale[0]*-1,transform.scale[1]] }I hope that makes sense? Any help would be awesome, thanks!

This problem only seems to start after 10 minutes or so of using After Effects.Every effect I add or try to edit in the effects panel in my project causes After Effects to jump into a pre comp and select a random solid layer. Really frustrating.  The only way I can continue working is by going back to the main comp and having to edit the effect properties in the layers window rather than the effects panel. This is really tedious when dealing with multiple layers with multiple effects. Copying and pasting the effect has the same result.I moved to 24.0.2 release due to an error that was stopping me from previewing anything with the Cinema 4D 3D renderer enabled - but this new error is even worse!Any thoughts on a solution?Window 10AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor64GB RAMEVGA GeForce GTX 1080ti 11GB FTW3 Graphics Card

Aunque ya he hecho varios vídeos de AE, me considero un usuario novel. En estos momentos, estoy con un macOs versión 12.7.4, procesador 3,2 GHz Intel Core i5 de 4 núcleos, 32 GB de memoria, tarjeta gráfica AMD Radeon R9 M380 2GB, y casi 400 GB de memoria SSD. Anteriormente estaba con un equipo inferior en procesador y memoria, pero a veces también me pasaba el problema que voy a contar. Es más, vídeos que hice con el anterior equipo y versión 22 de After Effects, ahora los abro con el nuevo equipo (más potente se supone), y con versión 23 o 24 de After, y también me hace el fallo. El problema que tengo es que el procesamiento de vídeo a H264 no se realiza correctamente ni en la propia cola de AE ni si lo llevo a Media Encoder. En uno y otro lugar, la previsualización la hace correctamente pero cuando abro el mp4 resultante, o bien sale un vídeo negro, o bien sale un vídeo en el que no está la animación completa. Es decir, si el vídeo dura por ejemplo 20 segundos por ejemplo, los p

Bonjour,Impossible d'ouvrir After effects (24.0.2) et Media encoder (24.0.2) , blocage à l'ouverture sur "Initialisation de MediaCore"Je suis sur Windows 11 avec carte graphique Nvidia RTX A5000(voir fichier crash en PJ)Quelqu'un a une idée pour résoudre mon problème ?Merci beaucoup,Anna

Hi, I am prototyping an interactive installation and need to trigger a local server over TCP/ Socket.I'd like to use layer markers to set the point in time when this call is happening. I managed to bild a script that compares current time and marker time, but it only works when manually placing the playhead and not during playback. I also looked into using expressions to track the markers with the same result. Is there any way to monitor and trigger during playback eg. pulling the previewtime as reference? Appreciate any thoughts or ideas!

Hi Everybody, I tried importing an MP4 with excellent color and upon import the color is terrible, really washed out. (image attached). I looks fine in the browser window or Quicktime, but in After Effects it looks awful. I had the same problem in Premiere and updating the display color fixed the problem, but I can't find the resolve for AE (or Photoshop). Can somebody please tell me why this is happening or what the fix might be? 

I'll be able to use After Effects as usual for 5-20 minutes before it freezes for two and then shuts down my whole MacBook for 10 minutes. Once I've got it on again, I get this error message from my MacBook and another from After Effects. I've tried creating new projects (so it's not a corrupted file), uninstalling and reinstalling the application, and clearing the cache, but still, nothing has fixed this. Both my MacBook and After Effects are fully updated. I've been able to use After Effects fine before, so I have no idea what has caused this.

Complete beginner here...do be kind. When I import a video clip into AE to stabilize camera shake, the image is tiny. I'm assuming I need proper settings on my dslr, which I did set according to the manual. Do I need to alter them at import? Any help greatly appreciated.