After Effects

I am attaching a simple test that shows the problem I am running into, with a precomp, CompA, and a comp using it, CompB.In CompA, I have two frames. Each of the frame shows the content of a separate shape layer. Both shape layers use a color that is defined as an essential graphics property for CompA.In CompB, I have 25 frames. It includes CompA with a time remap and two hold keyframes. One shows frame 0 of CompA for 12 frames of CompB, and frame 1 of CompA for the remainder of CompB.So far so good, this works as expected.Now, I am trying to animate the master property (named "masterColor") of CompA in CompB. If I set masterColor from CompB (under the 'Essential Properties' under the CompA layer), then I get the expected result, and the color is applied to the CompA content.However, if I try to animate masterColor, for example putting a different color at frame 12, then no animation of the color happens. The color of CompA remains the same as on frame 0. If I then change the color at

Issue - In specific AE files changing the comp frame rate causes the UI to freeze/hang for typically between 2 and 10 seconds.After Effects version - Beta 24.0.0 Build 44Operating system - Win 10Steps to reproduce - In the file Template-v01 open the example comp Aspect Ratio Guide-1920x1920. Open composition settings then change the frame rate using the dropdown or typing into the box.Expected result - The frame rate dropdown will update and the UI is instantly responsive.Actual result - In Template-v01 the UI will hang for a short while. In Template-v02 the frame rate changes without impacting the UI. Please note that in the Template-v01 file I have had inconsistent results with creating a new comp and attempting to repro this issue. Notes - If I remember correctly I imported the original Template-v01 file into a new blank document, and the issue did not appear in that file. My thought is that this is possibly related to saving the template file up a version (e.g. Beta v24)

Hello,I extensively incorporate time displacement effects in my work, as you can witness on my Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/francois.vogel/).However, I've encountered some challenges with this effect in recent software updates. Regrettably, these issues are not consistently reproducible, making it difficult to demonstrate them. I'm hopeful that this project will help illustrate the problem:https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/b6637f9f-4fe3-4a87-7db1-41828591a10aThe primary concern revolves around time displacement. On occasion, a layer within the precomposition fails to manifest its effect on the main composition. To address this issue, you often need to clear both the memory and disk cache, which is quite frustrating and a huge waste of time considering the loading of all the images needed for a time displacement effect.I hope this can be solved soon !Best,ƒrançois

When using the rotation tool (W) to rotate a layer, after completing a full lap (360deg) the value resets to 0 instead of 1x+0.0Once the rotation surpasses 360deg, the value snaps back to 1 lap plus however many degrees rotated.I encountered it after trying to rotate a layer 360 degrees over time. Since the value resets back to zero no extra keyframe is being set.  

There's a significant accessibility fault released with recent update to AE 24.0.3 on macOS Sonoma — navigation between app menus using keyboard is broken in AE: the focus is getting constantly reset to the beginning of the menu, and it's virtually impossible to reach to the needed menu item using LEFT and DOWN keyboard arrows.To illustrate it I made a screen recording (see attached).To explain what's recorded: I tried to reach to various menu items using only LEFT and DOWN arrows, and I couldn't as focus was constantly thrown back to the top. Notice how I tried to open Effects > Distort menu, and instead was thrown to the higher level Animation menu.I couldn't reproduce issue in other macOS apps, and not in Adobe Photoshop, seems like it's specifically AE bug.It significantly affects my productivity, as I used to navigate menus using keyboard. Update:As I just noticed, the problem is even more severe — it's not only about keyboard navigation, it also happens on mouse navigatio

It appears there's a bug in the text direction feature after recent changes. When attempting to edit an older text object in a project, it unexpectedly writes from right to left, despite the text direction being set to left to right. Interestingly, duplicating the text layer resolves the issue, and it writes in the correct direction. I've provided a reference video for clarification. Could you please investigate this matter on your end? We've received lot of reports from our customers who utilize our animated text library product, all experiencing this issue.

When creating a dropdown in After Effects ExtendScript code. The dropdowns sometimes display extra bottom spacing. For example, this code:var window = new Window("palette", "Dropdown Example", undefined); window.add( "dropdownlist", undefined, ["Option 1", "Option 2", "Option 3", "Option 4", "Option 5"] ); window.show();Creates this dropdown: Notice the gap at the bottom, where I drew the green star in the screenshot. Note, we have also noticed, changing your Windows Display Scaling has an effect on this.

Issue: After Effects crashes and closes when trying to stabilize motion using the controller.Adobe After Effects version number: 24.4Operating system: Windows 11Steps to reproduce: Open After EffectsSelect a videoFind the Control Motion optionSelect the Stabilize motion optionPosition the controllerClick playReady, the program will crash or close directly.Expected result: The program will probably crash or close directly.Actual result: The program crash or close directly.My own video issue: https://youtu.be/7MaRsCsA0GkVideos that I tried to use to solve it, but it didn't work: https://youtu.be/Zw1GiHHBnW0?si=T6gzBObf6lZPduJb 

Soo apparently I've been having this bug for around a week, it was fixed after I updated my driver and it came back i don't know why. Whenever I open my file project, it works fine for around 1-2 minutes and then the preview freezes on a random frame. Either I hide or delete my layers, it will just show me that single frame. I can delete this composition and create a new one, it will still show me that frame. Check the video please...I've seen billions of youtube tutorials, went on reddit, nothing helped. I've reinstalled same stuff. PC specs are fine 16gb ram processator Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8265U CPU @ 1.60GHz 1.80 GHzWindows 11 

When working with a timeline it's nice to zoom in and out using the pinch in/out gesture on a trackpad. But for some reason after enabling the Graph Editor the pinch in/out gesture stops working there which is a bit frustrating. "Alt + scroll mouse wheel up/down"   to zoom in/out works fine in both panels though.  TimelineGraph EditorPinch in/out on a trackpad✅❌Alt + scroll mouse wheel up/down✅✅ 

Hi,   (also posted in beta forum, sorry if double but hoping to maximize attention and priority) We've noticed a critical bug in Essential Graphics. The text is not updating outside of the EG comps when it's changed in the source. It updates the color but not the font size or type or other aspects. This problem wasn't present in v23 but seems to be in 24.x all the way up to this beta.   Steps to reproduce: - Create comp with text layer with any formatting. - Promote 'source text' in Essential Graphics of that comp. - Make another comp and put that setup comp in it. - Change the EG text to something else or link it to a new source text of a text layer. - Change the font type and size inside the setup comp. - The updates are not reflected outside in the other comp.   This has been a workflow breaking issue for us. Project made in 23 are completely broken and are only fixable by going to every place where the text has been adjusted and re-read from primary comp then apply t

Good day. I have found a problem where you cannot add controls in another function if you are using a pallete window type. Have a look at this example.myButton.onClick = function () { var myWindow = new Window("dialog", "My Window"); var myPanel = myWindow.add("panel", undefined, "Panel Title"); myPanel.alignment = "fill"; addButton(myPanel); myWindow.show(); } function addButton(panel) { panel.add("button", undefined, "OK"); } This code will only work if the window is a `dialog` type. If it is a `palette` type, it won't work. With `palette` the window flickers for a milisecond and then goes away. This is a small example, but in practise this is quite a large hinderance to a project. It means you cannot reuse any UI building logic in multiple places. Is there any temporary solution to this issue?

So far it's happened with CC sphere (which used to work) and CC SpotLight. I am sure it will probably do the same with most of the other CC effects, but frankly, I don't want to keep crashing it.

Hi. To all of you having AE, AME or Premiere stuck at app loading screen or dynamic link taking ages or not working at all, try DISABLING your network adapter when it happens. Let me know. This helps me, but it's crazy workaround. Not even starting apps as an admin helps now (it helped before), but disabling network adapter helps.

I've been working in each of the ACES OCIO configurations for about a year now, but there are a number of go to effects I usually need to use which unfortunately completely clip the highlights making them unuseable. Most of the effects I've seen with this issue so far are distortion effects but also some noise/grain effects too.On a current project I really need to warp areas of the plate but mesh warp, liquify and others cause this highlight clipping issue so there are no other effects I can go to for what I need. How can I resolve this or can Adobe please fix?This is before one of the effects is appliedand this is afterThis project is ACES 1.3 Studio v1.0 32 bit, but the issue happens in the other configurations too.

Dear Adobe,Me again. Please stop everything that you're doing with the development of new bells and whistles and doodads and put all your resources and firepower into resolving the years-old issue of the Slow and Laggy Interface in After Effects. Seriously. It's been YEARS. I kept thinking, "ah, they'll fix it soon.." and hope for the best and I end up feeling like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football every time a new update for After Effects comes out. "Maybe they fixed it!" And it's still not fixed.When I contact Support I'm told, "the issue that you are facing is a known issue and the same has been highlighted to the designated team who are working on getting the issue fixed in the future releases," but it has yet to be fixed.Old After Effects was FASTER on OLDER laptops - I have been on modern workstation-build DESKTOPS that are slower in response. Makes me not want to work in After Effects. I feel bad for those starting out in motion graphics in 2020 and this

In the attached image 'before.png' you can see a shape layer rigged with one simple expression with an IF statement that outputs either `thisLayer.content ("Shape 2").content("Path 1").path` or `thisLayer.content ("Shape 1").content("Path 1").path`depending on the state of a checkbox. If the name of the referenced Path that is currently evaluated by the if statement is changed by the user, the name of both Paths is updated in the expression, which is incorrect - since the non-evaluated one is inside a different group with a different group name. See the `after.png` for the resulting expression.

Hello guys,I am using AE 24.1 and AME 24.2.1/I created C4D(lite) files from AE which I integrated into my comp.When I try to have a render, the visualization shows my animation quite well, but the MP4 video is empty.The same happens with AME for export.I learned that there was a bug regarding CIneware/C4D and After effects with AE 24.1 version.Is that why I am having this issue and how to fix it?Thank you! I have to deliver this project this week 🙂 

When I open Mocha AE it opens with the Working Colorspace "default (ACES - ACES 2065-1)".I have to open up the Viewer Preferences every time I open it to set the Working Colorspace to "*data (Utility - Raw" and then set the viewer Gamma to 2.2 so my footage looks correct. Can either the AE or Boris FX devs change Mocha AE so that it remembers it's settings when it is closed and opened? I regularly have to close it and open it as Mocha AE can get very sluggish when you're rotoscoping for 10-15 mins, and restarting it makes it speed up again. Running After Effects 2024 on Windows 10, with ACES 1.2 config.ocio.

Working some projects with color management. Color engine set to "Adobe color managed". Working Color Space was set to "sRGB IEC61966-2.1". My current EIZO monitor's color profile was hardware calibrated as sRGB too.Here is the issue: When I turn off "Use Display Color Management" in After Effects, sRGB footage had a huge color shift that it should not be. Some projects are totally fine. I didn't figure out any project setting differences.Attached two sample project to reproduce this issue. "After_Effects_color_management_normal.aep" act normal, and "After_Effects_color_management_issue.aep" act wired.Tested in After Effects 2024 on Windows 11 machine and Macbook Pro M1 with latest OS installed.

Hi there--I've encountered a bug while working on a team project with some coworkers.  We're been editing in Premiere and adding in motion graphics through After Effects as usual, but have recently found that After Effects will no longer load up when we try to open the team project through it.  The program will begin to load, but gets stuck on this step:  The odd thing is that we are able to still open up the Team Project through Premiere without getting stuck on this step, but we're completely locked out of AE.  Luckily we have been doing local backups every night in case of something like this happening, but I'm at a loss for what to do. I've reset preferences, tried starting it up in Safe Mode, recreated the Team Project as a new file, and reinstalled AE.  Everytime it's the same; It'll open in Premiere but not AE.  I've tried accessing older TeamProjects through AE and they're able to open, so I have no idea why this one would be any differen

When working with ARRI ALEXA MINI ProRes4444XQ footagelumetrics glitching, jumping on individual frames up and down. Very slightly, on all colors.Rendering ProRes4444XQ. On each render in different places glitch. Some glitch remaining in the same places. 1. M1 Max export resulting lots of glitches2. Intel based mac less glitches3. On the same render setting form M1 max and Intel mac different color results.4. On After Effects version 23.x.x Perfect renders without any glitches or errors. This problem was always with the new updates of After effects. Now it's taking too long.Impossible to work. Always need to to make final renders on older version. Problem on this machines:After Effects version 24.3.0 macOS 14.4.1macbook Pro M1 maxand also:After Effects version 24.0.1macOS 14.0Intel macPro 2019  

I didn't even do any additional work on said files, AE works perfectly with my other (larger in size) projects. I tried everything from copying to renaming to importing to new projects, I disabled all fonts.The projects opens and some compositions open up (while on caps lock) but other comps just crash the whole thing. This is months of work so I need a fix hahaha. Sent crash reports with email ID, please help X(

Dear Adobe-Team, I switched to a new Mac Studio (Apple M2 Ultra, Sonoma 14.4.1 - all updates installed as of today, 7.Apr 2024) and am using Adobe 2024 Media Encoder and After Effetcs (all updates installed as of today, 7.Apr 2024). A file I need for work and which I created on my old Mac Book Pro (2,4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9, Monterey 12.6.6) can not be rendered. I reduced the problem to one effect: the write-on effect. I deleted everthing else from the file (its attached) so you can see the isolated problem - I called the Komp "Does NOT work". The file is still rendering on my old Mac and on a Windows Computer (I borrowed one for testing) but stops the rendering on my new Mac Studio (and also on the new Mac Home with an M2 chip from a friend who tested it for me). I made a new Komp on the new Mac Studio and replicated the layer - Komp "Works" - this renders sometimes and sometimes not (once it stopped working when I activated "write on transparency" but then after the

In both Photoshop and Illustrator apps, trackpad gestures function as follows: Pinch in/out with two fingers → Zoom in/outTwo-finger swipe → Pan tool According to this Adobe's tutorial video (https://youtu.be/Twp181u24Bc?t=102), the same gestures should work in After Effects as well. However, for some reason, when swiping (moving) with two fingers on a trackpad, the canvas is zooming in/out instead of panning. So, both gestures result in zooming." I'm using v24.0.2.