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This is extremely frustrating because I was JUST using the track camera just fine and then today I go back to the layer to grab another track point for something else in a different area of the same clip......the tracking was gone, so had to redo it. Problem is, it doesn't want to.  I've gotten 987287267842 error report pop ups trying to simply use track camera.  It either doesn't want to initialize, which has been an on going issue since before 2017 from what I've seen in extensively long report lists and no correct fixes. Or it finally initilizes after 10 tries and restarts, then gives me "3D Camera Tracker: Layer size must match Composition and use default transform values" Well great thing is.....I'm already doing that, that annoying thing is....After Effects doesn't care and is just throwing up random errors. I've tried to start over and re pre compose everything and try again and still does this. There literally is nothing mismatching.  It

Hi there, I'm having a tough time completing a project because After Effects is completely broken for me. The footage I'm using keeps going black, jumping around to random frames, changing the orientation of the footage, and muting the audio. I've restarted the computer, cleared my cache, turned off hardware acceleration decoding, and done a fresh install of the latest After Effects. I've tried transcoding my footage file to a different format to make sure that it's not to blame. I've tried proxies, I've converted the video to just audio to try to get around the muting issues and it nothing helps. The preview of the audio track on the timeline has huge random gaps in it for absolutely no reason.After Effects 2024 v24.1.0 (Build 78)Windows 10It's a super simple project with background footage + a layed comp on top of it. The comp doesn't seem to be affected by these issues, just the video footage. I've tried mp4, mov and AVI. This is very frustrating because I literally can't

hi after effect is using too much ram for no reason and I can only playback about 2 seconds.here is the process:1-impoted one 4k video2-tracked in mocha ae3- duplicate layer and mask one3- applied a stroke to the track data I used two versions:23.6.2beta 24.2 Im using macbook pro m3 pro 18 gigs of ram. tried using proxies and the other methods, they doesn't work, so I'm using my windows laptop core i5, 24 gigs ram 3050 to rxt I don't have any ram issues it works but it is just slower. it esspecialy happens when i apply a stroke to masked track data and keframe the stroke     

Hello all! For about the past month or so I've been running into this error when rendering using the native AE render queue. The error doesn't seem to stop the render from happening, the files themselves are all done and useable but it pops up at the end of every render now and I'm not sure what to do about it to 'resolve' it even if it's not actively preventing anything right now. Here's how it looks:it's always this 'could not open the file' and then referencing something in the AECache. Again, it doesn't stop the render or anything, but I'd like to know what's causing this error to occur in the first place as it didn't used to do so. Thanks a bunch!

Hi I am currently having a problem where After Effects ruins all audio that is imported in MP4'sWhen a MP4 is imported is shows the correct wave form in the project manager however whenever I bring it into a composition it ruins the output and the only thing I can hear is pure static and distortionIf i try to import a MP3 File the entire program  crashes or I get this error 

I'm rendering an After Effects comp in 2024 Encoder and it's stuck at the very end. It says it has 00:00:05 left but it won't move from there. It's been like this for hours now. The .aac and .m4v files are in the folder but aren't being combined. Is this a known issue? How do I get it to stop? As a side note, can we get rid of forcing us to use the encoder and go back to just rendering in AE? It's annoying and takes forever to load AE projects. 

Hi, I can't add or reduce the selection area. Even using the Refine Edge tool. It works at first... I am surprised no one else has had this problem...  The situation - I am trying to rotoscope a hand as it passes over a screen. Halfway through some of the  fingers disappear. I don't want this, so I try to extend the mask. This shows up as I did do something... it makes a foreground selection but this doesn't effect anything. It doesn't do anything. Refine Edge helped a little but it is the same problem after the initial frames. I can't refiine anything. This isn't like the fingers are motion blur... They aren't moving fast. I just can't correct the selection.  I am going to try this with a previous version but I already did all the rest of the work on the project so I will have to redo it all in a different version? Ugh.  

Hi,I have noticed this weird behaviour of After Effects. I am not sure if it's a bug but it is certainly a lack of control and accuracy.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_HjZgTG7N8 As you can see in the video link above my goal is to use Track Matte inverted (it does the same using setMatte) on a layer above pointing to the layer below and making the masking layer visible so that the layer below looks to be above. Then I use the blending mode Alpha Add on the two layers to remove that visible edge. form After Effects User Guide:Alpha Add Composites layers normally but adds complementary alpha channels to create a seamless area of transparency. Useful for removing visible edges from two alpha channels that are inverted relative to each other or from the alpha channel edges of two touching layers that are being animated. The weird thing is that it works just there is nothing under those layers.The funny thing is if the layers with Alpha Add are pr

Hi everyone!I have a couple of Nulls inside Comp 2 and this comp is a precomp inside Comp 1.  I need to create a script that checks if there is an effect in  the selected Null then add the same effect to Comp 2.  This is only for Checkboxes and Sliders, nothing major.  I think one of the reasons this is not working is because I'm using the activeItem. The script needs to look for a specific comp name because my projects have many layers and sorting by items indexes might not always work.   I feel that adding the expressions to link both parameters later would be very simple once I understand how the heck to access Comp 2 from within it.  This is what I have so far:var myComp; for (var i = 1; i <= app.project.numItems; i ++) { if ((app.project.item(i) instanceof CompItem) && (app.project.item(i).name === 'Comp 2')) { myComp = app.project.item(i); break; } } var baseComp = myComp.layer("Comp 2"); v

Months ago, I encountered an issue that wasn't resolved, and I had to buy a new computer, only to face the same problem again. What frustrated me the most was that despite talking to seven support team members, having them connect live to my computer, we couldn't find a solution. Their response was consistently to "reinstall your operating system" and then close the case. Since then, three updates have been released, and yet the problem persists. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe software, tried using After Effects without any plugins or additional software, reinstalled my operating system, loaded all drivers from scratch, and had only After Effects on my computer when testing, but the issue remains.The problem I'm encountering is that After Effects crashes without any reason when I start working on any large project. This error also occurs with Media Encoder.I've sent error reports multiple times with my registered license, but I haven't received any response. I believe the butto

I may have found something. I was working on a simple comp using psd, ai, video and text. AE was dragging very badly, hard to work on. I narrowed it down to the text layer. Then turned off the Faux Bold option in the Character panel, then AE worked just fine. Apple M2 Max Macbook Pro96GB MemorySonoma 14.1.2After Effects 24.1.0

Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro are all having slow performance on my new M2 Ultra Mac Studio with 64GB of RAM. Illustrator and After Effects are especially bad. Usually takes a half a second to five seconds for any inputs to register in Illustrator. These apps all still work perfectly fine on our older M1 Mac Studio. They're basically useless on the new machine. Already tried removing old preferences, reinstalling all of the Adobe apps, and using the older 2023 versions. All have the same problem. No other issues with the computer though, just issues with Adobe.

I rotoscoped a clip and in the precomp and on export I get a blank black screen.  it's a full hd 25 fps dynamic link video. from the start I had an issue with rotoscoping, got the message that the comp didn't match the clip and I should make the comp 50 fps, eventhough clip and comp were both 25 fps. So I just set the comp to 50 fps to appease AE. Everything was fine the whole time, I exported multiple versions and it all worked, so I don't think that was the issue. Changing comp fps to 25 or 50 also doesn't fix the problem. I kept working on it and now that I'm done, suddenly the pre-comp, the project panel miniature and on export the clip is just black. Everything looks fine inside the roto comp.I have been having some memory issues, but now that I froze the roto, I don't. I've tried restarting ae and it doesn't help.  

I’m building an expression for a keyframe-less animation, but I need a specific easing curve. The basic linear, easeIn, and easeOut functions do not give me as much easing control as I need. Right now I’m using the linear function and pulling the easing properties from a Slider Control, however I would like to hardcode a specific ease into the expression, so that it runs without the need of the Slider.I need the easing to match the curve from the attachment. (I pulled both bezier handles as far to the left as I could.)I’ve tried many different options, but none have been able to replicate this curve exactly. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I've just bought After Effects, and now I get this when I try to download it. 

  And why do shapes that exit on the right appear on the left side of the rendering?1st image is comp in AE, 2nd is render. I expect to render the dark blue area, instead I get this.

Hey there. Was just going to show my AE intro class one of the basic expressions for the Lens Flare center to follow a 3D sun layer while a camera is pushing in. All of the many expressions I've ever used seem to send AE 24.2 and 24.3 into some weird state where the comp window won't draw and AE freezes up after a minute or two. This is happening both on the school's Mac Studio M1 on Monterey as well as my MacBook Pro M3 Max on Sonoma. This is one of the expressions that causes the lockup. thisComp.layer("sun").toComp([1000,1000])When I save this file back to previous versions of AE, it works fine in the older AE. Thanks for any help. Let me know if you need more info from me.

Whenever I try and move the eyedropper from the color range effect, it cancels itself. Does anyone know how to fix this? I cant find anything online.

This is a tricky one and I am stumped.I am working on a complex rig, and I need a null object to track the position of the last character of a text object as the text moves off screen, but I need to do this on hundreds of text lines. It's actually a flush-right text, so the longest character would be the first letter of the first word in this instance.Imagine a flush right text line reading: FUTURA EXTRA BOLD.  I need to track is 'F' in this case. PALATINO SANS. I need to track the 'P'Any thoughts on how this could be achieved?#Expressions #Help

Today I faced same problem. Can't attach the MOV file into composition. After Effects Error 86::1 The source compression type is not supported. [[SOLUTION]]Just change the extension of the file .mov to .avi same, change any extension to another. MAGIC!!Enjoy! 

I am going crazy. I have a simple vector rectangle as an .ai file.  It is literally just a orange rectangle outline, this is a proof of concept as my actual image is a complex shape outline. I imported this simple rectangle outline into AE. It looks fine. I am trying to trace path animate it. When I convert it to a shape layer, all I get is a gray box. I am at a loss for what to do. Am I going to seriously have to waste a huge amount of time and recreate every asset I made for this in after effects itself so it is usable? How is this an efficient workflow??

Hello!Im using AE 2024 version. I can't simultaneously use a plugin on two different computers. I have two computers, one at work and one at home.Recently, I bought a Mocha Pro plugin. But I can't use them, even though when I use it on one machine, the other one stops using it.Is there a way I can use them alternately without having to deactivate from one machine?Thank you.     

I was working with raw photo files from my sony camera normally and suddenly it stopped responding.Import -> the progress bar stays 0% -> program not respondingTried, restarting my PC, delete caches, reinstalling after effects, deleting common files, app/local files, everything did not work. HELP

First of all, I've seen this issue from at least 2024.1 to 2024.3 on macOS Ventura 13.6, but I'd suspect that it's probably been present on both OSes for quite a while due to the nature of it. So, there's an odd, but very specific glitch I've run across a couple of times now. I've just figured out a fix, I think, but here's how to repeat. 1. In a precomp, set up a text layer and drag its source text to the comp's Essential Graphics.2. Duplicate that text layer. Add a text animator. I'm using opacity to reveal my text.3. Add any of the range controls from the text animator to the Essential Graphics panel.4. Put that precomp into another comp and animate the range Essential Property.5. Instead of animating smoothly, the text pops on from an arbitrary selection (i.e. not from the first character if you animate from 0-100%) and the selection glitches back and forth rapidly. What seems to be happening is that, instead of treating the source text of that layer as its own thing