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Hello, Posting this for future reference/in the hope that it can be resolved before other people lose time. Not sure if this is the place for it, sorry if it isn't!I found myself unable to save my working file. This has happened to me for the third time in a week:As I Cmd+S save the file, the little pop-up box that indicates the saving progress —the one with the little blue bar— pops up, but doesn’t fill up completely. It got stuck on a certain percentage (last time 41%, this time 71%), but rather than giving an error message or anything similar, it just seems to abort the saving process and closes the box. It looked as if I had saved it, but I actually hadn't. This is the same when– using any of the other saving options.– trying to package the file. I could ‘export’/hack a copy of the file by rendering it via Media Encoder. I tried to remove all unused footage. Then all linked images/video/audio. This seems to bump the percentage of saving up from 71% to 75% s

Hi, I am struggeling with something , Please seinors help me.  So I know I have to apply easy ease, or easy ease in, out, to the keyframes- to make keyframe's motion smooth. linear makes it look robotic.  right? so what if I have 12/20/40  keyframes of position and rotation of a character doing something with its hand. do I need to make them all easy ease?? or  suppose  I have a perticular part where I need to make the motion swift or slow, only then I would  select ''all those assosiated keyframes'' and apply easy ease to those ONLY  and I would leave the rest of the keyframes as it is (linear)?   I am losing my peace over it. Please guide me.  In the attached example do I need to make all the keyframes F9 (easy ease) ? Or only the part where I feel like here motion should be fast and make those keyframes easy ease and go to the graph editor and tweak them.. Thank you.     

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Hello,I am experiencing severe performance issues with Adobe After Effects. The application is lagging significantly during use and while rendering, even when I am working in quarter resolution and using it minimally ( minimal animation with 3d camera ). Additionally, the software frequently crashes and takes around 2–5 minutes just to save a project or export a video file, and it is also crashing frequently.This is not due to my system configuration, as I am using a newly assembled high-spec PC with the following specifications:NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB)32 GB RAMAMD Ryzen 5 9600X (6-core processor)MSI Pro B650 S WiFi motherboardI have already visited the PC service center 2–3 times, and they confirmed that there are no hardware-related issues.The main issue appears to be that After Effects is not utilizing the NVIDIA GPU at all, and instead it is consuming nearly 98% of the CPU and MEMORY. Because of this issue, I am experiencing problems in other software as well, and my PC overall i

So far I know of 2 different ways to export to a PSD, but each has it's own problem:'Save Frame As / File' — flattens all layers'Save Frame As / Photoshop Layers' — saves low-resolution, also some with some glitches (at least with the 3D objects I'm using) Is there a way around this? I don't get why the first option flattens everything and exports it at a lower resolution?

Hi all,I usually receive graded files for footage done in Resolve and then import them to After Effects (or Premiere) but the person using Resolve has to do that with every clip we use. They did the first clip in the series so now for colour consistency I need to have the same settings as them so the following clips don't seem off. I was wondering if they can somehow export a lut? xml? of the values Resolve used on the log/raw footage and import them in Lumetri in After Effects (or Premiere) and apply them directly in log/raw footage having the same visual output. If a plugin for this workflow transfer exists it's also welcome.

I've been using After Effects as my main work tool for over a decade now. And if there's one thing I’ve learned, it’s that hardware matters a lot—not talking about rendering/previewing a heavy 8K comp, but for simply navigating and previewing basic comps with a low layer count. Over the years, many of us have developed our own tricks to get AE to preview at a somewhat decent framerate—personally, I aim for around 80% of 24fps (without prerendering), which often feels like a win.That said, I recently upgraded to what I’d consider a very capable workstation, hoping this would make my life a little easier. For context: 16-core processor128 GB RAMRTX 4090 (24 GB VRAM)8TB high-speed SSD storageLiquid coolingClean install of both Windows 10 and 11 (tested both)Also used for heavy 3D work (Blender + Unreal) with no issues This setup handles complex 3D scenes like a breeze—but After Effects? Still an L.I’m constantly dealing with crashes, glitches, and the dreaded endless blue l

Hi! The alpha and luma options do not show up in the track matte drop down in After Effects. Track matte is where it use to be in After Effects, but the options for alpha and luma are gone. What can I do to get them back?  This is what the track matte dropdown looks like now:

For most effects with a "phase angle", all I have to do to seamlessly loop them over a given time interval is just place a keyframe with at phase angle 0 at the beginning and then a keyframe at the end that's just any whole integer of the phase angle (for example, I can do this with Motion Tile to repeatedly shift an image across the screen).  However, when I attempt to do the same thing with the Wave Warp effect, it doesn't line up at all!  (This is after setting it to a wave speed of 0.)  I noticed that I instead had to set the phase angle to o 256 degrees to get it to line up properly (or any whole number multiple of 256 for more loops).  I'm not quite sure why this is.  I'm not sure if this is consistent across layers or not, as I've got the feeling it might be dependent on the actual width or height of the layer.So how can I make wave warp loop seamlessly?

I have just started my After Effects CC 7 day trial , but it wont open.I have been looking around for a solution but none of them worked.I have tried :    -Disabling Windows Defender    -Running It As Administrator    -Reinstalling After Effect    -Reinstalling Creative Cloudbut it still didnt work.Here is a picture , when i launch it , it wont open , but it always shows up in Task Manager , it always uses 28mb of ram for some reason and nothing else.There is not error popup or anything in the Event Viewer that is related to After Effect.If needed , here are my PC Specs :CPU : Athlon x4 880kRAM : 8Gb 1600mhzGPU : R7 240 , OC to 980mhz Core , 1040mhz MemoryStorage : 1Tb HDD (Main) , 1.5Tb HDD (Primary For Storage)Thank you.

Hello @Mathias Moehl  I am hoping to automate changing text color with Automation Blocks in After Effects.I see the 'convert color' block, but I'm not clear if that's the right tool. Is it possible to change the fill color of text with Automation Blocks? Further, would it be possible to change only parts of the text within a single text field?  Like..If, in text field my text, find first occurance of 'change to blue' ≠ 0Change text fill color of my text to #0000FF

Hello.I have many layer with the same expression on their position property.This expression repeats the same tasks(repeated code) for all the layers, which make the performance very slow.My question is can I make a sudo effect (property) calculates the repeated code, and then just get a cached value for this property to the position properties and improve the performance?I don't know if using propery.value uses some caching system or not.I am using some heavy algorithems, so this will help me so much achieving what I need.So I hope you help me acheive this😊🙏.Thank you!

Video link I want to add time remapping to my clips, but when I do, the keyframes are applied to the entire clip. I only want the keyframes to affect the in and out points of the clip

Is CC Repetile broken or is this user error? 1. Create a Text Layer (or any Shape Layer or use any graphic)2. Add CC Repetile to It3. Expand to the Left or Right4. Keyframe the layer's position on the x axis at a slow speed. Watch the duplicates (created by CC Repetile) jitter, both in preview and in render  Sometimes the bouncing (or glitchy or twitchy or jumpy) errors result in a small movement, but (especially if it's thin enough) it will jitter more and more as it duplicates from the original source.  Is this a bug or a feature? For text repetitions, workarounds include using expressions like repeat(), but it is not a great solution as I'm having trouble with spacing. AE Version: 24.6.2MacOS SequioaAttached Gif and AE File

Hello, @Mathias Moehl !After nearly two years of exceptional productivity with Automation Blocks for Premiere, we've purchased a few licenses for the After Effects version. Loving the spreadsheet functionality. So much potential. At the moment, I'm trying to write a script that exports a single png of the last frame of all the selected compositions.I made one that sets the work area to one frame and then outputs a png sequence (resulting in only one png). My concern there is that when my team goes to render the full .mov, they'll accidently render only one frame.I added a block to the script that resets the work area after sending the .png to the render queue. Unfortunately, if you do that before hitting render, you'll get a .png sequence of the entire work area.So... is there a way to write a script that saves a single frame .png of a chosen frame of all selected compositions?

I have a licence of Adobe CS6 and I have been using the softwares for now quite some time. After upgrading computer, I installed the Suite from scratch on my brand new machine. I am running on Windows 11, with an Intel Core i5-13600k and on board graphics, Intel Graphics 770. It is to my sadness to see that I cannot open After Effects on my new machine. Everytime I try to open it, I get the error message: After Effects error: Crash in progress. Last logged message was: <13628> <GPUManager> <2> Sniffer Result Code: 3 After searching through previous posts, I have seen the suggestion of changing the Comportability setting to Windows 7, which I have done, but I get a similar error message: After Effects error: Crash in progress. Last logged message was: <13628> <GPUManager> <2> Sniffer Result Code: 1Only the Sniffer Result Code number changed. The software behaviour is exactly the same. I have installed the newest grap

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Hello i'm importing a illustrator (cc17) file with 1000 layers all sequenced and separated into After Effects (cc17) and it crashes AE.I've seen a way arround this with the script explode layers, but is taking to long since i've to run the script only at 50 at a time, when i try to do it in, 1000 groups in the shape layers it all so crashes AE.My Mac is aMacBook Pro(Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013)2,7 GHz Intel Core i716 GB 1600 MHz DDR3NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MBIntel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MBI have another file with just 500 layers and doe the same.Is it normal for this to happen?Cheers

Bonjoir à toutes et a tous, lorsqu' AE s'ouvre je tombe systematiquement sur cette page (voir la photo) et les onlets son grisés.Mais lorsque que j'ouvre directement via le projet (.AEP) cela fonctionne. quid ? merci d'avance.

Hi, I need some guidance. I am using Duik angela to rig a head for  head turning. But the motion is so abrupt. Any tricks from the seniors here to make the motion smooth? how can I make the hold keyframes smooth? please. 😥   

Hi,I am currently working on a time sensitive project that was built in AE25 but I'm currently experiencing repeated stability issues. I just want to get through this project without the added crash stress, so I'm looking to backsave my file to AE24 but I'm not seeing the option? I've looked into the whole "Save as a copy" but there's no backsave file option in the dropdown. It's only showing save as an AE template and that obviously doesn't work.  Any help?

This comes up every time I open AE2025 (25.5.0) (MacOS 15.6.1 Apple Silicon M4). Everything works after I close it but still it's a sign of something... AE2024 doesn't show it. Is it because of some plug-in, extension etc?

While exporting to 818 x 460 px ProRes 4444 I noticed that exported mov had slightly different colors than the same composition which was exported to 1920x1080 px. I prepared a simple AE scene which generates the same issue. Here is a simple test showing the issue. Top part is 1920px, bottom is 818px (scaled to fit).  When I exported the file first to 1920px and then scaled it to 818px using Handbrake there was no differences in the color. Is this an issue with AE or some weird limitation of ProRes?  

if theres no motionblur for 3d objects then whats the point?

When paused and not playing back, the entire preview window goes black. I can see my composition play back normally when playing, but it goes black when I pause. This issue happens with every project I make. I've tried:-Driver updates and everything GPU related-Making sure fast previews and wireframe are off-Starting in safe mode with 3rd party plugins disabled-Reinstalling After Effects and resetting preferences-Checking preview settings and making sure everything is visible  Details:After Effects 25.1Windows 11 Pro 24H2AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 & RTX 4060 (Laptop) w/ 32GB RAM Thanks to anybody who can help!